2024 ESCALATOR AWARDS
Investing in mentorship in 2024
The 2024 Escalator Awards were refined to focus exclusively on mentorship, a factor consistently identified in career success for women physicians. The resulting funded and supported mentorship pairings have a unique global focus and match an experienced mentor physician with a mentee in specialty / fellowship training. The cross-institutional pairs will work together to advance the cardiology field and the specific diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. A partner organization sponsors each award in a particular area of clinical interest. By supporting this unique mentorship program, these organizations have showcased their commitment to a diverse medical workforce and new professional opportunities for women physicians.
The winners
Escalator Award recipients were selected carefully by a review panel comprised of senior physicians and world leaders in cardiovascular medicine. We are honored to support the fantastic work that these three pairs of rising women physicians will create.
Mentorship Pairing #1: Microvascular Disease
Sponsored by 
The recipients of this award will work together on a project related to multimodality imaging and diagnostic techniques for microvascular disease.
Winners
- Mentor: Victoria Delgado, MD, PhD
- Mentee: Soledad Orazi, MD
Mentorship Pairing #2: Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy
Sponsored by 
This mentor and mentee pairing will be developing research around genetic factors in ATTR-CM and the use of imaging for diagnosis and monitoring of this condition.
Winners
- Mentor: Emer Joyce, MD, PhD
- Mentee: Natasha Gorrie, MD, GradCert ClinEd
Mentorship Pairing #3: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Sponsored by 
The recipients of this award plan to investigate best practices in the treatment and management of HCM.
Winners
- Mentor: Forum Kamdar, MD, PhD
- Mentee: Marilena Giannoudi, MBBS, MRes, MSc
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