Young Investigator Award and Travel Fellowship Grant
Young Investigators are encouraged to participate at the EuroELSO Congress. Aim of the Young Investigator award is to support excellent young fellows and to present their scientific abstracts to the world’s top ECMO leaders.
Young Investigators 2022 are:
Nina Buchtele, Vienna/Austria
Joppe Drop, Rotterdam/Netherlands
Lorenzo Foti, Florence/Italy
Hala Hamadah, Kuwait City/Kuwait
Silver Heinsar, Brisbane/Australia
Paolo Meani, Maastricht/Netherlands
Jan Steffen Pooth, Freiburg/Germany
Anne-Kristin Schaefer, Vienna/Austria
Joseph E. Siatan, Quezon City/Philippines
Tharusan Thevathasan, Berlin/Germany
Anna Valerianova, Prague/Czech Republic
Clemens Wiest, Regensburg/Germany
The EuroELSO Travel Fellowship Grant awardees 2022 are:
Sahar Fatima, Houston/USA
Teryn Roberts, San Antonio/USA
Lauren Ryan, Edmonton/Canada
Charlotte Van Edom, Leuven/Belgium
Bree Ann Young, Baltimore/USA
The EuroELSO in cooperation with the Bambino Gesù Children’s of Rome are issuing again the Andrea Aguzzi EuroELSO Nursing Award.
Andrea Aguzzi was an ECMO nurse in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit of Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, prematurely died at 34 years old with a motorbike accident while coming to work. This award is finalized to spread and increase the nursing research on extracorporeal life support in the world.
Andrea Aguzzi Award 2022:
Marta Cucchi, Maastricht/Netherlands

