The Vanderbilt Cardiomyopathy-Heart Failure Program was honored this year at the European Society of Cardiology’s Heart Failure Association meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, the Lisa M. Jacobson Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, was awarded the Heart Failure Lifetime Achievement Award by Professor Wilfried Mullens, MD, PhD, vice president of the European Heart Failure Association, which combines heart failure societies from more than 50 countries.
During the May meeting, Mullens credited Stevenson with inspiring him to dedicate his own career to heart failure and concluded the introduction with his definition of impact in the medical world as “treating patients you never meet.”
Stevenson, who is also director of Cardiomyopathy at VUMC, delivered the Eugene Braunwald Lecture on a major theme of her 40 years in research: “Taking the Congestion Out of Heart Failure.”
She was joined in Belgrade by her husband, William Stevenson, MD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, who contributed candid video clips of her life outside medicine. He was honored earlier this year by the Heart Rhythm Society for his lifetime contributions as a Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology.
