The American Heart Association has bestowed the Distinguished Scientist Award to five leaders in the field of cardiovascular health and research.
The award recognizes individuals for their “significant, original and sustained scientific contributions” to cardiovascular and stroke research, according to the American Heart Association website.
The 2025 award recipients are as follows:
- Donna Arnett, PhD, former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Columbia-based University of South Carolina.
- Christie Ballantyne, MD, section chief of cardiology and cardiovascular research at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine.
- Daniel Kelly, MD, director of the cardiovascular institute and the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania.
- Steven Lipschultz, MD, professor of pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at New York-based University at Buffalo.
- Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and director of the Case Cardiovascular Research Institute at Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University.
- Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD, distinguished university professor emerita, department of epidemiology & population health at New York City-based Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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