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Historical Perspectives
Table 3. PICS Achievement Award Winners.
1997 Charles Mullins
1998 Michael Tynan
1999 Kurt Amplatz
2000 Lee Benson
2001 James Lock
2002 William Hellenbrand
2003 Allen Tower
2004 Shakeel Qureshi
2005 Valmir Fontes
2006 Philipp Bonhoe er
2007 John Cheatham
2008 Carlos Ruiz
2009 Mario Carminati
2010 Larry Latson
2011 Horst Sievert
2012 Horacio Faella
2013 Savitri Srivastava
2014 John Bass
2015 JV Degiovanni
Recognizing Excellence and Leadership
From its very beginning PICS has strived to recog- nize and promote scholarship and leadership in our eld. In recent years PICS established the PICS Young Leadership Award. This award was developed to rec- ognize excellence in early career interventionalists. The Charles S. Kleinman Scienti c Scholarship Award, founded by the PICS Foundation, provides a $5,000 scholarship recognizing original scienti c work in the eld of interventional cardiology. The top abstract - nalists present their original work and the winner of the competition is announced at the PICS dinner each year. For his important life-long contributions to the eld of interventional cardiology as an echocardiog- rapher who understood the importance of a careful and complete understanding of cardiac anatomy and the value of collaboration with the interventionalist, Dr. Kleinman was the rst and only recipient to date of the PICS Foundation Award in 2011.
Figure 8. Dr. Charles Mullins receiving the rst PICS Achievement Award in 1997 from Drs. Hellenbrand and Hijazi.
The Pioneer Award, recognizing foundational con- tributions to how we treat our patients was awarded in 2010 to Bill Cook, founder of Cook Medical Corpo- ration, for his pioneering work in catheter design and production. In 2007, the rst Pioneer Award was granted to Dr. Terry D. King, co-inventor of the King- Mills septal occluder, the rst transcatheter closure device for ASD treatment that opened our minds to the possibility of minimally invasive techniques that lead to an explosion of biomedical advances we use today in the everyday care of our patients.
The Distinguished Service Award recognizes indi- viduals who have provided support to PICS. In 2013 the rst recipient was Dr. Sharon Cheatham for her tireless support of the mission of PICS, especially her e orts in developing the Nursing and Associated Pro- fessionals Symposium. The second Distinguished Ser- vice Award was given to Dr. Qi-Ling Cao for his un- wavering e orts to photographically document every PICS meeting since 1997. All the photos we have in our archives have been taken by Dr. Cao who is an es- tablished interventional echocardiographer and avid photographer. Finally, the PICS Achievement Award is given annually to an individual whose career has em- bodied the best in patient care and advocacy, innova- tion and discovery, teaching and mentorship and leadership in our eld. The list of prior award winners includes individuals from around the world who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of these goals. This distinguished list is lead by Dr. Charles Mullins shown
Year
Award Winner
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