Daniel Kalmanson Award

Daniel Kalmanson was a pioneer in the field, contributing to the development of technology, the application of technology, and the physiological interpretation of the measurements made by technology.

[Name of author of DK Award winner is underlined.]

First Award, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 9th ICDS Congress, June 25-27, 1997, Pr JRTC. Roelandt, Chairman.  Hongmin Wu and Shigeo Ohtsugi, Tokyo, Japan:  "Aliasing free flow velocity information via minimization of amplitude fluctuation between successive ultrasound echoes."

Second Award, Takamatsu, Japan, 10th ICDS Congress, November 25-27, 1998, Pr H. Matsuo, Chairman.  Satoshi Yamada, Taisei Mikami, Keiko Nishihara, Naotaka Saito, Hisao Onozuka, Akira Kitabatake, Sapporo, Japan:  "Detection of delayed endocardial motion using color kinesis images during dobutamine stress echo."

Third Award divided into:   Santiago de Chile, Chile, 11th ICDS Congress, First part, April 11-12, 2000, Prs. C. Carranza and E. Maiers, co-Chairmen.  Yvonne Aramburu, Solange Brugère, Emilio Maiers, Patricia Gomez, Flor Fernandez, Jorge Sapunar, Santiago de Chile, Chile:  "Echo and ECG findings in patients with Chagas disease."

Buenos-Aires, Argentina, 11th ICDS Congress, Second part, April 14-15, 2000, Pr J. Lowenstein, Chairman.  Alvaro Moraes, Fernando Morcerf, M. Carrinho, H. Dohmann, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:  "Accuracy of adenosine contrast echocardiography to detect single-vessel coronary artery disease."

Fourth Award, Warsaw, Poland, 12th ICDS Congress, September 5-6, 2002, Prs A. Nowicki, J. Adamus, and P. Hoffman, co-Chairmen.  Olga Kardash, Minsk, Belarus:  "Assessment of the internal thoracic artery graft patency by transcutaneous ultrasound in postoperative patients."

Fifth Award, Seoul, Korea, 14th ICDS Congress, September 17-19, 2004.  Pr Namsik Chung, Honorary Pr Jong-Hoa Bae.  Teruyoski Kume (picture below), Nozomi Watanabe, Neishi Yoji, Renan Sukmawan, Nozomi Wada, Noriko Okahashi, Kiyoski Yoshida.  Okayama, Japan: "Assessment of coronary microcirculation in patients with Tako-Tsubo-Like left ventricular dysfunction (transient left ventricular apical ballooning)." 

 

 

Sixth Award, Tyumen, Russia, 15th ICDS Congress, May 24-26, 2006. Anna Kozhurina (picture below), A Plusnin, V Kuznetsov, Tyumen, Russia: "Assessment of acute left ventricular wall motion abnormalities by limited hand-carried echocardiography in patients with acute coronary syndrome."

 

 

Seventh Award, Kobe, Japan, 16th ICDS Congress, April 11-12, 2008. Kenya Kusunose (picture below), Hirotsugu Yamada, Susumu Nishio, Takashi Iwase, Takeshi Soeki, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, and Masashi Akaike: "Effect of preload increment in early diastolic transmitral and mitral annular velocities in patients with old myocardial infarction."

 

 

Criteria required for the Daniel Kalmanson Award

	Candidates must be under thirty-five-years-old to compete.
	No citizenship intervenes.
	Candidates are usually MD, but  they can be scientists, physicists, medical engineers, or physiologists, etc.; as far as their field of interest is focused into research for the cardiovascular system through the development of ultrasound technology.
	Candidates must submit an abstract according to the guidelines required by the Chairman of the meeting, and the abstract must be received by the organizing committee not after the deadline.
	The objective of the research  may be clinically applied or basic and fundamental.
	Candidates must submit an original abstract on his/her research that has not been published or presented in another international meeting, or in one of the main congresses held in the United States, such as AHA, ACC, ASE.
	Candidates must be the first author and the presenter of the abstract.  There may be associated authors.
	Candidates must not present more than one paper as a first author.  Previous award winners must not apply for the DK Award in subsequent years.

Criteria for the evaluation
 

The abstracts competing for the DK Award will be selected by scientists of the scientific committee, among all the submitted abstracts reviewed and graded.  The final selection may involve four to six abstracts.  Finalists will receive individual notice at the time of the general decision of acceptance or rejection of the abstracts, by the organizing committee to which the selection of finalists will be forwarded.  During the meeting, a special session, “the DK Award session” grouping the papers in competition, will be chaired by a panel of distinguished researchers, scientists, or clinicians representing a wide spectrum of the medical science and trends of research  for cardiovascular disease and appointed by the chairman and by the scientific committee.

 

The criteria retained for the evaluation are the following:

	The scientific merit of the abstract.
	The originality and quality of the research.
	The presentation of the abstract.

The decision made by the panel, with the name of the winner will be announced at the end of the session or at the closing ceremony of the meeting, according to the Chairman’s decision.

Award

The winner will receive the award of which the amount will be decided by the ICDS President and Officers and later delivered by check from the ICDS secretarial office.  An official acknowledgement consisting of a parchment paper signed by the ICDS President and ICDS officers will be sent to the winner.

Recently, several ICDS members have contributed $800 towards the next Daniel Kalmanson Award fund.