Grants Awarded Since 2008
Subsequent Funding for PIs (2008-2020 SCA Grants)
$2.94M
Total SCA Grant Funding 2008-2020
$16.89M - ROI: 575%
Subsequent Federal Funding
22.7%
PIs with Subsequent FAER/IARS/AHA Funding
22.7%
PIs with Subsequent Federal funding
36.4%
PIs with selected subsequent funding
Subsequent Publications (2008-2020 SCA Grants)
67
Publications acknowledging SCA Grant
1.5
Publications/grant (SCA acknowledged)
81
Publications directly related to SCA Grant
1.8
Publications/grant (directly related)
Statements of Impact from Research Award Winners
Kimberly Howard-Quijano, MD, MS, FASE
Starter Grant
“I am extremely grateful for the critical support that the SCA Starter Grant offered in my career development. This was the first research funding I had received, and it truly provided the foundation for my career as a physician scientist. With this initial support, I was able to acquire the skills and preliminary data for a successful five-year K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The SCA research grants support has provided a platform for not only the advancement of my research, but also mentoring residents and students in numerous projects.”
Jessica Brodt, MBBS, FASA
Jochen Steppan, MD, DESA, FAHA, FASA
Mid-Career Grant
“It has been a tremendous honor to receive the very competitive SCA Mid-career award. Being funded by the SCA has made a big impact on my ability to continue research and transition from an early stage investigator towards a mid-career role. This grant allowed us to generate sufficient data to obtain NIH funding to investigate the fundamental mechanisms behind pulmonary hypertension – a deadly disease with great impact on perioperative management.”
Nathan Clendenen, MD, MS
Starter Grant
“The SCA Starter grant was the critical support I needed to launch my career as a clinician scientist at just the right time. The starter grant gave me the opportunity to learn about research and generate data leading to two successful NIH proposals. I am so grateful for this support, and it was instrumental in helping me pursue my long-term goal of improving patient care through pragmatic clinical trials.”
Robert Thiele, MD, MBA
Starter Grant
“My SCA starter grant was the first extramural funding I received as a new faculty member, and it set me on a path towards NIH funding. This early grant allowed me to fund early work that would lead to a K-08 from the NIGMS (as well as negotiate for an appropriate amount of protected non-clinical time), which then lead to an R-21 Trailblazer award from the NIBIB. Device development is difficult, but we are honing in on a realistic (i.e. affordable and actually fits in an OR) technical solution to the problem of brain ischemia monitoring – all existing technology looks for surrogate measure of ischemia, e.g. hemoglobin saturation, whereas we seek to interrogate the brain tissue itself using advanced near infrared spectroscopy equipment. These early stage grants are so important if we are going to launch the careers of academic anesthesiologists – in addition to funding projects and helping carve out protected time, they offer external validation that is useful to NIH and other grant reviewers who are short on time and have to make snapshot decisions based on a limited amount of data.”
Anne Cherry, MD, FASE
Kaplan Leadership Development Award
Most immediately, the Kaplan Leadership Development Award fostered development of the skill set I needed to continue evolving our department’s research program for clinical fellow trainees. Moreover, the timing of the award relative to my career stage at the time was ideal: in the years that have followed, that leadership development has paid dividends in a variety of other professional domains both locally and nationally, including (perhaps most importantly) opportunities to give back via service to the SCA via several roles. I’m extremely grateful to the SCA for their support of my Kaplan Leadership Development Award, which solidified my path in promoting research and other professional development.
Amanda Rhee, MD, MS
Kaplan Leadership Development Award
The Kaplan Leadership Award and the educational leadership opportunity it created for me provided key learning and networking opportunities that I carry with me today. We created a program which reduced never events in the operating room and I now hold a leadership position working as the Executive Director of Perioperative and Procedural Quality for the System Chief Medical Officer. I couldn’t be more grateful for the support of the SCA and the Dr. Joel Kaplan’s vision to support growing leaders.
J. Danny Muehlschlegel, MD, MMSc, MBA
Kaplan Leadership Award Recipient
The support from the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) at the onset of my career was pivotal, demonstrating that I could secure competitive peer-reviewed funding, a foundation that enabled me to apply for additional grants and eventually establish an NIH-funded laboratory. Subsequently, receiving the Kaplan Leadership Award facilitated further education through an MBA, equipping me with the essential skills and tools to lead a department successfully.
Cumulative by Award Year
Grant Awards by Foundation
| Name | Grant Type | Grant Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luai Zakaria | In-Training | Morbidity and Mortality after High-Dose Hydroxocobalamin for Refractory Vasoplegia: A Retrospective Propensity Score Analysis of Safety and Efficacy | 2023 |
| Terri Sun | Starter/Diversity | Bilateral paravertebral blockade for improvement of quality of recovery following cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial | 2023 |
| Tiffany Williams | Starter/Diversity | Machine Learning of Physiological Waveforms and Electronic Health Record Data: Towards predicting hemodynamic instability in adult congenital heart disease surgical patients | 2023 |
| Lee Goeddel | Mid-Career | Hemodynamic Profiles of Cardiovascular Dysfunction and Risk of Cardiac Surgery Associated Kidney Injury in Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction | 2023 |
| Meghan Prin | Starter | Circadian Movements and Delirium in Older Cardiac Surgery ICU Patients | 2022 |
| Kofi Vandyck | Diversity | Optimization of Platelet function Testing In Cardiopulmonary bypass (OPTIC): A Comparison Between Thrombelastography-PlateletMapping and Total Thrombus-formation Analysis System (T-TAS) | 2022 |
| Yafen Liang | Mid-Career | Prevention of Post-Cardiac Surgery Acute Kidney Injury by Proton Pump Inhibitor: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial | 2022 |
| Sergey Karamnov | Starter | Combined clinical-epidemiological risk score for postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: a multi-institutional study | 2021 |
| Elena Ashikhmina | Diversity | Activated Prothrombin Complex Concentrate FEIBA to Optimize Postcardiopulmonary Bypass Hemostasis in Pediatric Cardiac Patients | 2021 |
| Alina Nicoara | Mid-Career | Right ventricle adaptive changes in patients undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation | 2021 |
| Marta Kelava | MICOR | The Effect of Continuous Low Tidal Volume Ventilation and Hyperoxia Avoidance During Cardiopulmonary Bypass | 2021 |
| Matthew Barajas | Starter | Altered Efficacy of Ischemic Post Conditioning after Cardiac Arrest in a Diabetic Rat Model | 2020 |
| Isaac Wu | Starter | Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair and Right Ventricular Function: Analysis Based Upon Intraoperative Pressure-Volume Relationships | 2020 |
| Mike Mazzeffi | Mid-Career | Von Willebrand Factor Concentrate for Treatment of Acquired Von Willebrand Syndrome During ECMO: An in vitro Dose Finding and Efficacy Study | 2020 |
| Nathan Clendenen | Starter | Hemostasis after Cardiac Surgery and the Effect of Whole Blood Transfusion | 2019 |
| Jessica Brodt | Mid-Career | Enhanced Recovery after Cardiac Surgery with Erector Spinae Plane Catheters: A Prospective, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial | 2019 |
| Erik Strauss | Starter | Assessment of Tranexamic acid and ε-Aminocaproic acid Pharmacokinetics and therapeutic Effectiveness during cardiopulmonary bypass (TAPE) | 2018 |
| Jochen Steppan | Mid-Career | The role of LOXL2 in pulmonary hypertension | 2018 |
| Eckhard Mauermann | Starter | 3D Echocardiography-Derived Pressure-Volume Loops for Assessing Right Ventricular Performance. A feasibility study with broad clinical implications | 2017 |
| Louis Saddic | Starter | Remote genetic remodeling of the cardiac nervous system following myocardial ischemia and the attenuation of these changes with spinal cord stimulation | 2017 |
| Viachaslau Barodka | Mid-Career | Prevention of Cardiac Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury by a Goal-Directed Perfusion Protocol: Pilot Single Center Randomized Controlled Trial | 2017 |
| Jan Dieleman | Starter | Genome Wide DNA Methylation Profiles in Patients with Severe Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure | 2016 |
| Matthew Fischer | Starter | Predicting Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation Using a Multi-Locus Epigenomic Risk Metric | 2016 |
| Michael Mazzeffi | Starter | Procoagulant and Anticoagulant Factor Levels, Thrombin Generation, and Bleeding During Veno-Arterial ECMO | 2016 |
| Srdjan Jelacic | Roizen | The Use of Routine Video Surveillance of the Entire Operating Room to Identify Specific Hazards and Analyze Sentinal Events from Cardiothoracic and Vascular Procedures | 2016 |
| Matthew Levin | Starter | Genomics of Vasoplegia | 2015 |
| Quintin Quinones | Starter | Innate Immune Adaptations of Hibernation as a New Approach to Protection Against Acute Organ Injury | 2015 |
| Elod Szabo | Mid-Career | Influence of exercise and arrhythmia on the development of Na-channel related cardiomyopathy | 2015 |
| Domagoj Mladinov | In-training grant | Novel Strategies in Advancing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: MicroRNAs, Small Molecules with Great Potential | 2014 |
| Kimberly Howard-Quijano | Starter | The Role of Cardiospinal Reflexes in Modulation of Ventricular Arrhythmogenesis | 2014 |
| Bryan Maxwell | Starter | Development of a Comprehensive Perioperative Registry of Noncardiac Surgery and Obstetric Care for Patients with Adult Congenital Heart Disease | 2014 |
| David McIlroy | Mid-Career Grant | Does varying the chloride content of intravenous fluid alter the risk of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery? | 2014 |
| Keierick Togashi | Roizen | Randomized Study of the Clinical Impact of Surgical Correction of Tricuspid Insufficiency in Implantable LVAD patients | 2014 |
| Geoffry Lively | In-Training | A Clinical Pilot Study of Interactive Biomarkers in Coagulation, Inflammation and Endothelium with/ without Enhanced Anti-Oxidant Buffering Capacity utilizing High Dose Intravenous Vitamin C | 2013 |
| Michael Manning | Starter | Atrial fibrillation following cardiopulmonary bypass: The role of angiotensin II | 2013 |
| Robert Thiele | Starter | Comparison of broad-band near-infrared spectroscopy-derived mitochondrial oxidation state and tissue oxygen saturation for the detection of ischemia in two models of rat cerebral ischemia | 2013 |
| Nina Hauck-Weber | Mid-Career | Secretion of Caveolin to the Bloodstream-a Role for Circulation Factors in Inducing Organ Protection by Helium – A Translational Approach | 2013 |
| Friederike Behmenburg | Starter | Does Protection of the Aged Heart by Targeting Mitochondrial Large Conductance Ca2+-activated Potassium Channels Improve Long Term Hemodynamic Performance? | 2012 |
| Tobias Piegeler | Starter | Amide-linked Local Anesthetics as Src kinase inhibitors in Pulmonary Vascular Inflammation – A New Target for Old Drugs? | 2012 |
| Amanda Fox | Mid-Career | Genome-Wide Assessment of Genetic Associations with Heart Failure after Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery | 2012 |
| Se-Chan Kim | Roizen | CpG Oligodeoxynucleotide Mediated Postconditioning and Immunomodulating Effect in Myocardial Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury | 2012 |
| Jayant Nick Pratap | Starter | Randomized Trial of Near-infrared Spectroscopy to Guide Intraoperative and Intensive Care Management During Children’s Heart Surgery | 2011 |
| Jan Stumpner | Starter | The Functional Role of Calcium/Calmodulin Kinase II in Ischemic and Anesthetic-induced Cardiac Protection | 2011 |
| Diederik Van Dijk | Mid-Career | The Effect of Dexamethasone on Cognitive Decline after Cardiac Surgery | 2011 |
| Timo Brandenburger | Starter | Effects of MicroRNA-1 Knockdown on IGF-1 and cMet Expression and Impact on Hypoxia-induced Cell Death in Rat Myoblast Cells H9c2 | 2010 |
| Tetsuro Sakai | Starter | Role of Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase in Stem Cell Mediated Neuronal Protection In Vitro | 2010 |
| Gregory Hare | Mid-Career | Determining the hemoglobin threshold for hypoxic cellular responses: Studies in anemic hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)-ODD-luciferase mice | 2010 |
| Joern Karhausen | Roizen | The Intestinal Injury in a Rat Model of Deep Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest: Critical Role of Mucosal Mast Cells for Barrier Function and Inflammation | 2010 |
| Qing Ma | Mid-Career | PPAR Gamma as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Perioperative Cerebral Injury Following Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest | 2009 |
| Martina Nowak-Machen | Starter | CD39 Modulates NKT Cell-induced Oxygen Toxicity in the Lung | 2009 |
| Matthias Riess | Roizen | Free Radicals and Mitochondrial Function: How does genetic predisposition affect cardioprotection by volatile anesthetics? | 2009 |
| Mark Lovich | Starter | Pericardial Inotropic Therapy: A new paradigm for studying heart contraction | 2009 |
| Zhengyuan Xia | Starter | Nitrate Tolerance Compromises Propofol Protection Of The Endothelium Against Inflammation: The Role Of PKC-ß2 And NADPH Oxidase Interaction | 2008 |
| J. Danny Muehlschlegel | Starter | Functional analysis of Protease Activated Receptor-4 Polymorphisms associated with Myocardial Injury | 2008 |
| Ragnar Huhn | Starter | Helium-induced Cardioprotection in the Hypertensive Myocardium | 2008 |
| Mark Gerhardt | Mid-Career | Cytoskeletal Alterations in a Porcine Model of Restrictive Ventricular Septal Defect | 2008 |
Kaplan Leadership Awardees
| Year | Awardee | Title and Institution | Leadership Development Opportunity |
| 2024 | Sarah Cotter, MD | Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center | Developing an Evidence-Based Perioperative Curriculum for Cardiac Residents |
| 2024 | Ashley P. Oliver, MD | Clinical Professor, The Regent of the University of California, Los Angeles | Stanford Physicians Leadership Training Certificate |
| 2023 | Sergey Karamnov, MD | Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School | Brigham Leadership Program |
| 2022 | Sheela Pai Cole, MD, FASE, FASA | Clinical Professor, Stanford University | Stanford LEAD Program |
| 2022 | Stephanie Ibekwe, MD, MPH, MS | Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine | University of Texas at Dallas Executive MBA – Healthcare Organizational Leadership |
| 2021 | Karsten Bartels, MD | Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center | Harvard Leadership Development Course for Physicians in Academic Health Centers |
| 2020 | Lisa Rong, MD | Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian | Executive Leadership Coaching Program for Research Leaders |
| 2019 | Ruma Bose, MD | Adult Cardiovascular Anesthesia Program Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Structural Heart Disease Curriculum for Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship |
| 2019 | Danny Muehlschlegel, MD MMSc | Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School | MIT Sloan Executive MBA |
| 2018 | Anne Cherry, MD | Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Medicine | Development for Leadership of Anesthesiology Fellowship Research Program |
| 2018 | Michael Grant, MD | Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions | Design and Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) Program |
| 2017 | Rebecca M.Gerlach, MD FRCPC | Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care; Director, Anesthesia Perioperative Medicine ClinicUniversity of ChicagoChicago, IL | Development of Preoperative Anemia Treatment Program for Cardiac Surgery Patients |
| 2016 | James D.O’Leary, MBBCh MD MMED FCARSCI | Assistant Professor, Faculty of MedicineUniversity of TorontoToronto, Canada | Advanced Health Leadership ProgramRotman School of Management, University of Toronto |
| 2015 | Andrew L Wilkey, MD | Northwest Anesthesia, P.A.Minneapolis, MN | Improving Blood Product Utilization in the Cardiac Operating Theater: Thromboelastometry-Guided, Evidence Based Best Practice Guideline for Coagulation Management in Cardiac Surgery |
| 2014 | Tjorvi Perry, MD | Northwest Anasthesia | Improving Operational Efficiency and Clinical Utilization in the Cardiac Surgical and Procedure Areas: Mapping Intervals of Care During a Patients’ Care Cycle! |
| 2014 | Amanda Rhee, MD | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | The Harvard School of Public Health’s Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers Course |
| 2014 | Bryan Maxwell, MD, MPH | Johns Hopkins University | Development of a Perioperative Consult Service for Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Across the Mid‐Atlantic Region |
| 2013 | Kelly Ural, MD | Ochsner Clinical Foundation | Development of an Echocardiography Elective Rotation for the Ochsner residency program and Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Program Director Track |
| 2012 | Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD, FASE | Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center | The Development of a Multi-Specialty Perioperative Echocardiography Service at the University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| 2012 | Dalia A. Banks, MD | Clinical Director, Department of Anesthesia, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center UCDS | Leadership Coaching Workshop |