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| Sameer Hirji, MD | Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD |
Sameer Hirji, MD, the Safra Research Fellow in the Division of Cardiac Surgery and a resident in the Department of Surgery, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, an attending physician in Cardiac Surgery and senior principal investigator, were presented the J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Award for their research at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 55th annual meeting in January. The Chamberlain Paper Award is given to the meeting’s top-rated abstracts.
Hirji’s project, “Relationship Between Hospital Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) Volume and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Outcomes,” found that the mortality risk for TAVR patients was higher when performed at hospitals with a low volume of SAVRs. This research also highlighted the importance of a multidisciplinary heart team approach in the management of patients undergoing TAVR, with important implications on minimum volume requirements as outlined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).
Launched in 1981, the Chamberlain Papers honor the scientific contributions of the late J. Maxwell Chamberlain, MD, a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon who chaired the steering committee tasked with creating the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a nonprofit representing more than 7,400 surgeons, researchers and allied health care professionals worldwide who are dedicated to ensuring the best possible outcomes for surgeries of the heart, lungs and esophagus, as well as other surgical procedures within the chest.
