Highlighting the talent and expertise at Royal North Shore Hospital and the Kolling Institute, a group of clinicians took out a collection of coveted awards at the Cardiac Society (CSANZ) scientific meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most prestigious research award for young investigators across Australia and New Zealand was awarded to cardiologist Dr Karan Rao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was presented with the Clinical Ralph Reader Prize for his valuable study of 200 TAVI patients, which used an implantable loop\u2011recorder to guide post\u2011procedural care and risk classification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Hari Sritharan received the Heart Failure Prize for PREDICT\u2011TAVI, a machine\u2011learning model that improves individualised mortality prediction after TAVI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Jonathan Ciofani was named Editorial Fellow of the Year for his leadership at Heart, Lung and Circulation, and Dr Neila Litkouhi won Best Research Poster for the DAY\u2011STAY TAVI study demonstrating the feasibility and safety of same\u2011day discharge for selected low\u2011risk patients after TAVI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Head of Cardiology at Royal North Shore Hospital Professor Ravinay Bhindi said it was encouraging to see the focus on this group of emerging research leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs their research supervisor, I felt immense pride watching Karan, Hari, Jonathan and Neila receive well\u2011deserved recognition for their relentless dedication to cardiovascular research,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTheir work blends rigorous data collection, machine-learning analytics as well as practical innovation. It is already reshaping clinical practice and promises to drive even greater advances in patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3845,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,12,13,15,48],"tags":[42,50,51,33],"research-group-tax":[],"primary-research-area":[],"class_list":["post-3844","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-recognition","category-cardiovascular-renal-research","category-musculoskeletal-research","category-neuroscience-pain-research","category-research-excellence","category-world-leading-technology","tag-musculoskeletal","tag-neuroscience","tag-pain","tag-rehabilitation"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated-.jpg",800,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated--150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated--300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated--768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated-.jpg",800,600,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated-.jpg",800,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/root_Blog_Doctors-Neila-Litkouhi-Hari-Sritharan-Karan-Rao-and-Jonathan-Ciofani-with-Professor-Ravinay-Bhindi-seated-.jpg",800,600,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ict-wordpress-support@sydney.edu.au","author_link":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/author\/ict-wordpress-supportsydney-edu-au\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Highlighting the talent and expertise at Royal North Shore Hospital and the Kolling Institute, a group of clinicians took out a collection of coveted awards at the Cardiac Society (CSANZ) scientific meeting. The most prestigious research award for young investigators across Australia and New Zealand was awarded to cardiologist Dr Karan Rao. He was presented…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3844\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"research-group-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-group-tax?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"primary-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary-research-area?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}