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HFA Lifetime Achievement Awards

An honour given annually, during the Heart Failure congress, for significant contributions to heart failure science.

Heart Failure 2023

Lecture

Prof. Piotr Ponikowski (Wroclaw, PL) ) Philip Poole-Wilson Lecture
Prof. John McMurray (Glasgow, GB) Eugene Braunwald Lecture

Heart Failure 2022

Lecture

Prof. Roberto Ferrari (Ferrara, IT) Philip Poole-Wilson Lecture
Prof. Gert Hasenfuss (Goettingen, DE) Eugene Braunwald Lecture

Heart Failure 2021

Lecture

Prof. Milton Packer (Dallas, US)
Prof. Sian E. Harding (London, UK)

Heart Failure 2020

Lecture

Prof. Kenneth Dickstein (Stavanger, NO)
Prof. Douglas Mann (St Louis, US)

Heart Failure 2019

Lecture

Prof. Magdi H. Yacoub (Harefield, UK) The HFA Eugene Braunwald lecture - Introduction of M. Yacoub
Prof. Mariell Jessup (Philadelphia, US) The HFA Philip Poole Wilson lecture - Introduction of M. Jessup

Heart Failure 2018

Lecture

Prof. Mark Pfeffer (Boston, US)
Prof. Walter Paulus (Amsterdam, NL) Fighting heart failure with preserved ejection fraction - The battle lines are shifting

Heart Failure 2017

Lecture

Prof. Michel Komajda (Paris, FR) Heart failure and diabetes mellitus : "les liaisons dangereuses"
Prof. Faiez Zannad (Nancy, FR) Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. Navigating the landscape, from trials to clinical practice and to reverse translational science

Heart Failure 2016

Lecture

Prof. Karl Swedberg (Stockholm, SE) Treatment of heart failure: The success of neurohormonal and heart rate control
Prof. Luigi Tavazzi (Cotignola, IT) New scenarios in medical science

Heart Failure 2015

Lecture

Prof. Eugene Braunwald (Boston, US) - First Honorary Eugene Braunwald Lecture: The path to an angiotensin receptor antagonist: neprilysin inhibitor
Prof. Henry Dargie (Glasgow, UK) - Lecture: Towards effective heart failure treatment - a tale of two cities

Heart Failure 2014

Prof. Peter Libby (Boston, US) - Lifetime Achievement Award
Prof. Finn Waagstein (Gothenburg, SE) - Lifetime Achievement Award

Heart Failure 2013

Prof. Dirk Brutsaert (Kontich, BE) - Lifetime Achievement Award
Prof. Bertram Pitt (Michigan, US) - Lifetime Achievement Award

Heart Failure 2011

Prof. John Kjekshus (Oslo, NO) - Lifetime Achievement Award