Presenters awards were given for the first time at the 11^th Annual SSRCTS meeting 2001.

• 1^st Prize: Matti Pokela. Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Forensic Medicine, Univeristy of Oulu, Finland for his presentation: “Cortical brain micro dialysis findings predict brain injury and neurological outcome after hypothermic circulatory arrest in pigs”
• 2^nd Prize: Lise Lotte Sabroe Ebbesen. Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for her presentation: “Parodoxical changes in whole blood coagulation profile in rats suffering from hyperhomocysteinemia determined by roTEG trombelastography”
• 3^rd Prize: S.C. Stoica. Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United kingdom for his presentation: Immunohistochemical analysis of endothelial cell activation in right and left ventricles of transplanted human hearts

 

On the 12^th Annual Meeting, 2002 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st Prize: Fausto Labruto. Crafoord Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Dept. of Thoracic Surgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden for his presentation: “ Intraperitoneal injections induce a preconditioning-like effect in mice
• 2^nd Prize: Benny Soerensen. Centre for Haemophilia and Thrombosis and Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for his presentation: “Whole blood coagulation dynamics in patients on vitamin K antagonists and efficacy of recombinant factor VIIa (NOVOSEVEN) in serious haemorrhage”
• 3^rd Prize: Christopher Wigfield. Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Newcastle and Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom for his presentation: “Ameliorated reperfudion injury in lung transplantation after reduction of brain death induced inflammatory graft damage in the donor”

 

On the 13^th Annual Meeting 2003 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st Prize: Dag Nordhaug. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromso, Norway for his presentation: “Nitric oxide synthase inhibition impairs myocardial efficiency and ventriculo-arterial matching in acute cardiogenic shock”
• 2^nd Prize: Peter Johansen. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for his presentation: “In vivo quantification of mechanical heart valve noise”
• 3^rd Prize: Mathias Perthel. Bad Bevensen, Germany for his presentation: “Impact of orientation of the Medtronic Hall tilting disk mitral prosthesis on intraventricular flow patterns using cardiac-MRI”

 

On the 14^th Annual Meeting 2004 the Presenters awards were given to:

•  1^st prize for oral presentation: Michael Galagudza. Department of Pathophysiology and Laboratory of Biophysics of Circulation, St. Petersburg, I.P. Pavlov Federal Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russion Federation & Centre for Physiologic Gene Function, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden & Department of Surgery, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway for his presentation: “Brief global ischemia convert persistent reperfusion-induced ventricular fibrillation into regular rhythm in the rat heart”
• 2^nd prize for oral presentation: Camilla Nielsen. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for her presentation: “Evaluation of turbulence in the Medtronic Advantage ^TM – a new bileaflet heart valve design”
• 1^st prize for poster presentation: Troels Fogh Pedersen. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery & Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for his presentation: “Angle dependency in strain and strain rate evaluated in a dynamic test phantom”

 

On the 15^th Annual Meeting 2005 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st prize for oral presentation: Grzegorz Suwalski. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland for his presentation: “Cryothermy or radiofrequency? – which energy is better in endocardial ablation for surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation”
• 2^nd prize for oral presentation: Christian Høyer. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for his presentation: “Assessment of myocardial stunning in a procine OPCAB-model by use of Doppler Strain and Strain Rate”
• 1^st prize for poster presentation: Mari-Liss Kaljusto. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery & Institut of Experimental Medical Research & Department of Surgery, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway for her presentation: “Ischaemic postconditioning does not attenuate ischaemia-reperfusion injury in the isolated, perfused rat heart
  

 

On the 16^th Annual Meeting in Geilo, February 9^th – 11^th, 2006 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st prize for oral presentation: Hanna Alaoja, Department of Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Finland for her presentation: “Does leukocyte filtration decrease the amount of activated neutrofils in cerebral capillaries during cardiopulmonary bypass with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest? – A direct visualization”
• 2^nd prize for oral presentation: Marte Bliksøen, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Institute of Experimental Medical Research and Department of Surgery, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway for her presentation“Role of hydrogen Sulphide, a novel gasotransmitter, in ischemia-reperfusion injury of the isolated, perfused rat heart”
• 1^st prize for poster presentation: Ole Halfdan Larsen, Center for Haemophilia and Thrombosis, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Denmark for his presentation: “Whole blood experimental model of thrombocytopenia
  

 

On the 17^th Annual Meeting in Geilo, February 8th – 10th, 2007 the Presenters awards were given as two 1^st prizes for oral presentation to:

• 1^st prize for oral presentation: Hanna Alaoja, Department of Surgery,Oulu University Hospital,Finland for her presentation: “Effects of pH Management During Selective Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion on Cerebral Microcirculation and Metabolism: Alpha-Stat Versus pH-stat.”
• 1^st prize for oral presentation: Martin Karlsson, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden for his presentation”Fibrinogen: A Potential Biomarker for Bleeding and Blood Transfusion after Cardiac Surgery”
• 1^st prize for poster presentation: Henrik Jensen, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery & Institute of Clinical Medicine,AarhusUniversityHospital,Skejby,Denmark for his presentation: “Papillary muscle relocation in addition to down-sized ring annuloplasty improves mitral valve coaptation geometry in chronic functional ischemic mitral valve regurgitation”

 

On the 18^th Annual Meeting in Geilo, February 7^th – 9^th, 2008 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st prize for oral presentation: Jan Kiss, Department of Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Finland for his presentation: “Interferon-beta protects from vascular leakage via upregulation of CD73″
• 2^ndprize for oral presentation: J. Bjørnstad, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway for his presentation“Identification of mediators of reverse remodeling of the left ventricle in a murine model of reversible pressure overload”
• 1^st prize for poster presentation: Stefan Vind-Kezunovic, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery & Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark for his presentation: “Regional Wall Motion in Ischemic Heart Failure Assessed by Tagged Cardiac MRI”

 

On the 19^th Annual Meeting in Geilo, February, 2009 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st prize for oral presentation – Niklas Telinius

Institute of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Aarhus; Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, for his presentation: “Noradrenaline, thromboxane analogue U46619 and endothelin-1 induce contraction in human thoracic ducts in vitro”

• 2^ndprize for oral presentation – Arkady Rutkovsky

Institute of Experimental Medical Research, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, for his presentation: “Aquaporins: New players in heart physiology and ischemia-reperfusion injury”

Poster prize was shared by

• Maj Lesbo

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, for her presentation: “Cardiopulmonary function in pectus excavatum patients compared to healthy control subjects”

• Solveig Helgadottir

Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, for her presentation: “Acute kidney injury following coronary artery bypass surgery using the RIFLE criteria”

 

On the 20^th Annual Meeting in Geilo, February, 2010 the Presenters awards were given to:

• 1^st prize for oral presentation – Lars Mariero

Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, for his presentation:
“Ventilation with high oxygen concentration during reperfusion does not increase infarct size”

• 2^ndprize for oral presentation – Christian A. Moen

Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, for his presentation: “Low-grade coronary stenosis is first detected by multilayer strain measurements.-An experimental porcine study”

Poster prize was shared by

• Torben B. PedersenInstitute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, for his presentation: “A comparative study of lung sealants in a porcine ex vivo model”

On the 21^st Annual Meeting in Geilo, February, 2011 the Presenters awards were given to:

• Poster prize to Farhad Waziri:  ”A surgical anatomy study of the porcine tricuspid valve” F Waziri, SL Nielsen, JM Hasenkam.

Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital-Skejby, Denmark.  farhad.waziri@studmed.au.dk

• First prize for oral presentation to Arkady Rutkovsky:  “Aquaporin-1: Another player in cardiac hypoxic and ischemic injury? “

A Rutkovskiy1,2, LH Mariero1, K-O Stensløkken1, V Hillestad1,2, M Amin1, G Valen2,3, J Vaage1

Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, 2Center for Heart Failure Research and 3Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.  dunnay@mail.ru

• Second prize for oral presentation to Martin Ingi Sigurdsson:  “Acute kidney injury and survival following coronary artery bypass surgery”

(S Helgadottir1), MI Sigurdsson1, OS Indridason1,2, H Sigurjonsson1, GH Sigurdsson1,2, T Gudbjartsson1,2

 

 

On the 22^nd Annual Meeting in Geilo, February, 2012 the Presenters awards were given to:

The poster prize was not given due to too few eligible poster presentations (3). Instead of that, the evaluation committee decided to give three prizes for the oral presentations.

• 1^st prize for oral presentation – Marie Maagaard (Århus, Denmark)

“Cardiopulmonary function following the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum – 3 years follow-up”.

• 2^nd prize for oral presentation - Annelies E. Mitchell (Nottingham, UK)

“The effects of concomitant CABG surgery and age on short term outcomes after aortic valve replacement”.

• 3^rd prize for oral presentation – Emma C. Hansson (Gothenburg, Sweden)

“Prevalence, appropriateness and effects of on-going antiplatelet therapy in patients operated for acute aortic dissection”.

 

On the 22^rd Annual Meeting in Geilo, February, 2013 the Presenters awards were given to:

The poster prize was not given due to too few eligible poster presentations (2).  Instead of that, the evaluation committee decided to give three prizes for the oral presentations.

• 1^st prize for oral presentation – Mia Lehtinen (Helsinki, Finland)

“Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation in ischemic heart failure – a prospective, controlled, randomized, double-blinded study of cell transplantation combined with coronary artery surgery”

• 2^nd prize for oral presentation - Diana Røpcke (Aarhus, Denmark)

“Remote ischemic preconditioning reduces thrombus formation in the rat”

• 3^rd prize for oral presentation – Katarina Waldén (Gothenburg, Sweden)

“Preoperative plasma concentration of fibrinogen is an independent predictor of excessive bleeding after cardiac surgery”