Hugh Calkins, MD and award recipient  Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, MD with Michael Ackerman, MD recognize the importance of ongoing research to SADS patients.


The Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation announced its winners for 10th Annual Courts K. Cleveland SADS Foundation Young Investigator Awards in Cardiac Channelopathies. These Awards are administered by the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES) and were presented at the annual PACES evening meeting on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.

As one of our past board members and a past chair of PACES, Dr. Ian Law, said, “Supporting new research in the ever-growing area of cardiac channelopathies is the hope for the future. Young, brilliant minds will create the next life-saving scientific breakthroughs that will help save young lives.”

This year the winners for the Young Investigator Award in Cardiac Channelopathies are as follows:

Basic Science Winner

Author/Investigator: Christiaan Veerman, MD Mentor:  Connie R. Bezzina, PhD Institution: Academic Medical Center Amsterdam

Translational/Clinical Winner

Author/Investigator: Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, MD Mentor:Hugh Calkins, MD Institution: Johns Hopkins