That’s a Wrap on NAA2024!
Dear friends and colleagues of North American Artery (NAA),
We hope everyone had a great time at the #NAA2024 12th Annual Meeting and enjoyed uneventful travels back home.
First, if you haven’t already, please complete this brief 4-8 question survey. Your feedback will help us to plan future events. Have photos from this weekend? We want to see them! Don’t forget to tag #NAA2024 on social media (X; LinkedIn or Facebook) to spread the word about NAA!
Second, as we reflect on this weekend and the past year, there is so much to celebrate. This year has been a record-breaking year for our society full of fun, science and innovation including:
Record breaking 121 attendees and 55 abstract submissions!
Elaine Urbina, MD received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for her career’s work in prevention of cardiovascular disease in youth
Zach Clayton, PhD was the inaugural Career Development Award recipient who gave us a moving lecture reminding us about the importance of finding the ‘sweet spot’ in our work between the research opportunities and personal passion.
Mayra Bueno Guerrero (1st place) and Ravinandan Venkatasubramanian (2nd place) dazzled us with their trainee oral abstract presentations.
Congratulations to inaugural trainee travel award recipients: Virginia Nuckols, Sophie Seward, Sean Lubiak, Krista Reed, Jin-Su Kim and Stephanie Lapierre-Nguyen.
First-ever Early Investigator Committee events including: two virtual symposiums in February 2024, pre-conference social at Milieu Fermentation Brewery and conference bingo.
Additional recaps from #NAA2024 include:
Move over Paris Olympics: It was USA vs. Canada in the 2024 NAA Stanley Franklin Debate featuring Maureen MacDonald, PhD vs. Michel Chonchol, MD debating pharmacological vs. lifestyle interventions for preventing early vascular aging.
Featured symposiums on early vascular aging and impacts of the ‘exposome’, sleep and circadian misalignment, sex/gender, microgravity and tutorial lectures on metabolomics and artificial intelligence.
Inaugural Transformational Program Highlight: University of Colorado Multidisciplinary Center of Aging (MCoA) and the Older Adult Research (OAR) Program. Struggling to recruit or complete your aging study? Let the MCoA throw you an ‘OAR’!
Focused career development for trainees on career and life “transitions” during an interactive breakfast session hosted by the Early Investigator Committee.
Fantastic floor demonstrations from our industry Gold sponsors including Uscom, Quipu, Cardiex, Fukuda and Cardiovascular Engineering, Inc.
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the invaluable support of our industry and academic sponsors. We wish to highlight our industry sponsors: Uscom, Cardiex, Cardiovascular Engineering, Inc., Fukuda, University of Iowa Healthcare, Quipu and Medtronic as well as our academic sponsors: University of Colorado Division of Geriatric Medicine, Multidisciplinary Center of Aging, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Iowa Department of Health and Human Physiology, University of Delaware Center for Cardiovascular Health, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Columbia University Teachers College. We could not have done this without you.
We hope to see you in early 2025 for our next NAA EIC Virtual Symposium. Until then, remember, you’re only as old as your arteries.
Best,
Gary Pierce, PhD
Lyndsey DuBose, PhD
NAA Programming Co-Chairs
