Nicholas Kouchoukos Award Grant

The Nicholas Kouchoukos Award, funded by The Thoracic Surgery Foundation, supports the continuing education of cardiothoracic surgeons and senior residents focusing on thoracic aortic disease. This traveling fellowship provides awards of up to $10,000 for four weeks, enabling recipients to learn novel techniques and foster collaboration for enhanced patient care. Eligible candidates include surgeons within ten years post-residency and final-year residents from accredited programs, ensuring a commitment to academic excellence and surgical innovation.

STS Past President and Historian Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD, has had a long, remarkable career in cardiothoracic surgery, and among his greatest achievements was the development of the modified Bentall procedure, and hypothermic TAAA Repair.
Purpose
The purpose of this traveling fellowship is to facilitate the continuing education of a cardiothoracic surgeon or senior resident committed to the treatment of thoracic aortic disease. The award is to be used for travel to another institution for the purpose of learning a novel technique, adapting innovative technology and/or fostering collaboration between surgical investigators in order to enhance patient care at the recipient’s home institution. The successful applicant will have a record of excellence in training and academic achievement. He/she will have secured a position at an institution capable of providing continued growth and development in the realm of thoracic aortic disease.
Funding
Awards of up to $10,000 for up to four weeks will be granted to support a cardiothoracic surgeon for this fellowship. This award of up to $10,000 will be used to defray the travel and living expenses for the sabbatical period.

Eligibility

Cardiothoracic surgeons who are within the first ten years of completion of an ACGME-accredited cardiothoracic surgery residency (or its equivalent outside the U.S.) and who are certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) or its equivalent outside of the U.S. by the grant start date; orCardiothoracic surgery residents in their last year of training at an ACGME-accredited program (or its equivalent outside the US) at the time of application.