Laennec Fellow in Training (FIT) Clinician Award

Electronic submission through the Council Awards Application System is required. Hard copies of any part of the nomination cannot be accepted.

Your application form should contain the following documents in PDF format:

• Case abstract in accordance with AHA rules and regulations for submitting abstracts to Scientific Sessions. This will be an abstract based on your case presentation. Please note that this abstract must first be submitted separately through the AHA's Scientific Sessions website before the abstract submission deadline. Visit Scientific Sessions to submit your abstract before submission of this award application. Note the abstract control number you receive after submission as you will need that for your award application form. The work covered by the submitted abstract must not have been presented at a national or international meeting before presentation at the AHA scientific event. If so, the abstract must be withdrawn.
• An unpublished manuscript or manuscript in preparation (maximum 30 pages, double-spaced, including graphics) to be presented in the submitted abstract, based on clinical research involving patients or human subjects. Multi-center trials are not eligible. (35-page limitation, including references, tables, and figures.) The applicant must be the first and presenting author, although the manuscript may have co-authors. The work covered by the submitted abstract must not have been presented at a national or international meeting before presentation at the AHA scientific event. If so, the abstract must be withdrawn.
• Curriculum vitae including bibliography.
• Two letters of recommendation:
  • One from the fellowship program director verifying that the candidate:
    • is enrolled in a U.S. fellowship program and in good standing
    • had a major role in the case, either diagnostic assessment or management.
    • Any other important attributes of the applicant
  • The second from an individual familiar with the applicant's clinical acumen, background, or research.
  • Importantly, both letters should provide sufficient detail to allow an adequate assessment of the applicant’s competitiveness for this award.

Visit the Council Awards Application System to complete an application.

A username and password previously set up through online registration at Professional Heart Daily (PHD) will be necessary to access the Application System. AHA Professional Members who are creating an online profile for the first time should make sure to register using their AHA membership identification numbers.

An active AHA Professional Membership is required of all applicants for this award. If you are joining the AHA to apply, please wait for your AHA member number to arrive from AHA Member Services via e-mail before creating an online profile and starting your application file. We suggest that new members join the AHA no later than one week prior to the application submission deadline for the member ID number to be processed and delivered in time for the application deadline. The membership number will be required on the award application form.

1. Click the link for the Council Awards Application System.
2. Sign in with your Professional Heart Daily username and password.
3. Follow these instructions to set up your profile in ProposalCentral. Setting up your ProposalCentral profile will only need to be done the first time you login to apply for an American Heart Association Council Awards. Please note that the grant maker named American Heart Association is for AHA Research Awards and is a separate log in.

For more detailed information on ProposalCentral, also included are additional materials on specific ProposalCentral functionality.

• How to Create an Application in ProposalCentral (PDF)
• How to Register a ProposalCentral User (PDF)
• How To Add Publications in ProposalCentral (PDF)

Finalists for the Laennec Fellow in Training (FIT) Clinician Award associated with Scientific Sessions will be announced in August. The top five candidates will present their research results at Scientific Sessions. The winner will be announced at the Council on Clinical Cardiology dinner. Each finalist will also receive the following:

• Cash award: The first-prize winner will receive a plaque and $1,500 plus $1,000 travel stipend; the other finalists will each receive a plaque and $500 plus $1,000 travel stipend.
• Complimentary Clinical Council dinner ticket, along with recognition at the dinner.
• All case presentations may be submitted with guaranteed evaluation by Circulation Cardiovascular Case Series editors.

Each finalist is guaranteed to have their cases evaluated for the Case Series section of Circulation and will be designated in the Scientific Sessions online supplement to Circulation. Acceptance for the competition does not guarantee publication in any other American Heart Association-sponsored journal. Abstracts associated with a published manuscript can be presented at an AHA scientific event if the manuscript was published after the time the abstract was submitted to the event, however the abstract will not be published as a part of the journal publication.