14 SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS DAILY NEWS | Day 1 Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024 In 2023, He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for transforming cardiovascular disease prevention efforts worldwide. Debra K. Moser, PhD, RN, FAHA University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Debra K. Moser is a professor at the University of Tennessee, and professor and Linda C. Gill Chair of Cardiovascular Nursing at the University of Kentucky. She is director of the Research and Interventions for Cardiovascular Health (RICH) Heart Program, an international research collaborative dedicated to cardiovascular research and mentorship. She is also an editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Her research program focuses on intervention research and testing biobehavioral self-care interventions in populations with notable health disparities, including rural residents, caregivers and other vulnerable people with cardiovascular disease and heart failure to improve quality of life, morbidity and mortality. She also studies cardiovascular risk reduction in rural residents at high risk for CVD and heart failure. Examining the impact of depressive symptoms on outcomes is an underpinning of all her work. Moser’s work has been recognized with more than 30 awards, including the HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dracup mentorship, Lembright as well as Heart Failure Research awards from the American Heart Association. She has been recognized with the President’s Research Award from Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the AHA and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. Her funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute exceeds $40 million. She has published more than 450 data-based journal articles, 25 chapters and three books. Jane W. Newburger, MD, MPH, FAHA Harvard Medical School Boston Jane W. Newburger is the Commonwealth Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and associate cardiologist-inchief for academic affairs at Boston Children’s Hospital. An international authority in pediatric cardiovascular disease, Newburger has focused her research on clinical outcomes and neurodevelopment in congenital heart disease, Kawasaki disease and the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. She has published over 600 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews and chapters. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received the Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical) of the American College of Cardiology, the Clinical Research Prize of the American Heart Association, the AHA Young Hearts Meritorious Achievement Award, the AHA Paul Dudley White Award and the Helen Taussig Founders Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Newburger has served on the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Advisory Council, leadership councils in the AAP, ACC and AHA, and the board of trustees of the ACC. She previously chaired the Clinical Science Subcommittee of the NHLBI Task Force on Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease and the AHA Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis and Kawasaki Disease Committee. She is a former associate editor and then senior editor of the AHA’s flagship journal, Circulation, and currently serves on an array of journal editorial boards. She has mentored generations of trainees and junior faculty; is a longstanding PI of a T32 award in pediatric cardiovascular research; and received both the Harvard Medical School’s William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award and the Joseph B. Martin Dean’s Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty. AWARDS continued from page 13
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