HLI Director Receives National and International Recognitions
Dr. Bruce McManus, Director of the Providence Heart + Lung Institute, has recently been the recipient of two major awards. The Canadian Society of Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology recognized Dr. McManus with the 2009 Scientific Excellence Award for his work to understand the accelerated blood vessel disease that affects transplanted hearts. He presented the Award Lecture, "Towards Preventing Injury and Modifying Repair in Allograft Vessels", in October 2009 at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Edmonton.
Recently, Dr. McManus has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, an international flagship organization for education in cardiovascular pathology, for his many years of extraordinary contributions to the field. He will deliver the Distinguished Achievement Award Lecture regarding the molecular pathology of heart muscle diseases in March 2010 at the Annual Society Meeting in Washington DC.
Dr. Bruce McManus