Xiaoying Lou, MD

• Director, Cleveland Clinic HVTI medical student rotation program
• Past-president, Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
• Participation in numerous national committees, including AHA Early Career Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia and AATS Residents and Education committees
• Research presentations at numerous national and international medical meetings, including annual meetings of the STS, AATS, AHA and the Heart Valve Society
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance TL1 Postdoctoral Research Training Award to complete master’s degree in clinical research as a resident at Emory 2018-2019

• 2018 NIH/NCATS Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance TL1 Postdoctoral Research Training Award
• 2017 Scholarship, Women in Thoracic Surgery
• 2014 James W. Brooks Medical Student Scholarship, Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
• 2014 "Member for a Day" Program, AATS Annual Meeting
• 2012 Summer Intern Scholarship, AATS
• 2010 Goldwater Scholar
• 2007 National Merit Scholar

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