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Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award 2018, European Heart Journal, Volume 40, Issue 5, 01 February 2019, Page 413, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy869
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A Swiss group was honoured in Chicago at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2018. The award was presented to Dr Bettina Heidecker and Dr Jan Kottwitz for the highest ranked abstract that Jan Kottwitz presented on behalf of the research of the group: Myoglobin as a predictor of high-risk patients with acute myocarditis.
The Paul Dudley White Award
The prestigious Paul Dudley White Award is named in honour of one of the Boston’s most famous cardiologists, Dr Paul Dudley White, of the Wolff–Parkinson–White arrhythmia fame.
Paul Dudley White, 6 June 1886–31 October 1973, graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, eventually rising to the position of Chief of the Cardiac Services at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is widely regarded as the founder of preventive cardiology. White strongly believed and was a firm advocate that lifestyle affected coronary artery disease and consequently was a vigorous walker and bicycle rider. He was appointed as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s cardiologist following the President’s heart attack in 1955 and played an important role in his recovery and his subsequent running for a second presidential term of office.