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Gold Medal Award Recipients

The Gold Medal is the highest award given by the SCMR to an individual for distinguished and extraordinary service to the field of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and to the Society. 

2026 Gold Medal Winners

John Paul Finn, MD

Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Physics and Biology in Medicine Graduate Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Edward "Ted" Martin, MD, MSCMR

Oklahoma Heart Institute, Tulsa, OK, USA

Previous Gold Medal Winners

2011

Charles Higgins, MD, PhD, MSCMR

Gerald Pohost, MD, MSCMR

2012

Dudley J. Pennell, MD, MSCMR

2013

Steafan Neubauer, MD, MSCMR

2014

Warren J. Manning, MD, MSCMR

2015

Christopher M. Kramer, MD, MSCMR

Raymond J. Kim, MD

Robert M. Judd, PhD

2016

Joao A. C. Lima, MD, MSCMR

Eike Nagel, MD, PhD, MSCMR

2017

Nathaniel Reicheck, MD, MSCMR

2018

Andrew E. Arai, MD, MSCMR

2019

Orlando Simonetti, PhD, MSCMR

2020

Peter Kellman, PhD

Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD, MSCMR

2021

Matthias Friedrich, MD, MSCMR

Matthias Stuber, PhD, FSCMR

2022

James Moon, MD

Robert Edelman, MD

2023

Leon Axel, PhD

John Greenwood, MD, MSCMR

2024

David Bluemke, MD PhD MsB

Raad Mohiaddin, MD, PhD

2025

Rene Botnar, PhD, FSCMR

Steffen Petersen, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc, FSCMR

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