I’m pleased to tell you that our own Dr. Tim Plante received the Sandra Daugherty Award for Excellence in Hypertension or Epidemiology at the AHA Epidemiology/Lifestyle conference in Chicago yesterday!  His abstract was presented as an oral presentation today and was based on his research funded by the CVRI Bloomfield Professorship, “Inflammatory cytokines and incident hypertension in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.”

This award is for early careerists, and the LCBR is so proud. Tim is the second UVM’er receive this award – Dr. Jie Cao received it when she was a cardiology fellow working with me years back. Dr Nancy Jenny in our lab was also a finalist in the past (and maybe others I can’t remember!).