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CV pathologist received 2012 TCT Career Achievement Award
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Renu Virmani, MD, an internationally renowned CV pathologist, was presented the 2012 TCT Career Achievement Award in a ceremony at the 24th Annual TCT Scientific Symposium in late October. The award is given each year to a pioneer in the field of interventional CV medicine.
Virmani’s achievements span decades, and include accomplishments in vascular pathology, coronary thrombosis, atherosclerosis and vulnerable plaque. Her career path started in India, where she received her medical degree from Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi University, New Delhi, and she has since held various roles in pathology at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, George Washington University, Vanderbilt University, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Georgetown University, University of Maryland and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Today, she serves as president and medical director of CVPath Institute, which she founded in 2005.
Virmani is a member on 16 editorial boards, including Cardiology Today; has published 548 peer-review manuscripts; edited seven books; authored 168 book chapters, 344 abstracts and 20 editorial letters; and has received at least 20 awards.
At the award ceremony, Martin B. Leon, MD, founder and chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, said: “She has overcome great obstacles to achieve great goals. She’s proven that a woman and a pathologist can have an enormous impact on mainstream clinical medicine. She has the courage to question and the strength of conviction to challenge overly accepted norms in the interest, always, of patient safety. She is our conscience.”