 My name is Daini Vikacal and I am fortunate to be part of THI's Communications, Publications and Education team. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. We'll be starting with the presentation of the inaugural James T. Willerson MD Editors Choice Award presented by Dr. Joseph Rogers and Dr. Smonamir Kraser. It's an honor and a special pleasure for me to have this opportunity to present to the winners of Texas Art Institute Journal Willerson Editors Choice Awards. This award is sponsored by Texas Art Institute Board and also a generous gift from Morton Kahn, a longtime friend of THI and Dr. Willerson and a former board member. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge excellence in scientific discovery and medical writing. Now, the recognized papers are published in Texas Art Institute Journal and the winners were selected from those publications. The winners were selected by myself as editor-in-chief and also a panel of our associate editors which include Dr. Emerson Perrin sitting here, Dr. Stephanie Coulter, Dr. Jose Diaz, I don't know if he's here, and Dr. Alexander Postalian. Now, needless to say, Dr. Willerson, for those of us that have known him very well for the last several decades while he was at Texas Art Institute, he was truly one of the greatest beacon as far as Texas Art Institute is concerned and achievement that Texas Art Institute has gathered in addition to Dr. Cooley and many other of his associates. Some of his achievements are listed here, as all of you know, he was chief editor of circulation for 10 years and circulation was housed here in this institution. And he also published many books, many manuscripts. He was a researcher, he was a scientist, but above all he was an excellent, excellent physician and took good care of his patients. Very few of us will achieve the accolades and recognition that Dr. Willerson has achieved in his lifetime. So just briefly about Texas Art Institute Journal, all of you know it very well. It's a peer-reviewed journal by Texas Art Institute. We are nearing 50 years of existence of Texas Art Institute Journal from our institution. Here is the editorial board with associate editors. We also added more recently sectioned editors in nine topical areas and they are geographically diversely distributed and the content is published by Alan Press and there are a variety of type of manuscripts that are being published in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Almost 5,000 articles have been published in the journal since its inception. The journal is online only. It's free to read for everybody without any limitations or restrictions. And it's indexed by PubMed and Medline. We published six issues a year so far. So it is my distinct pleasure together with Dr. Robert Rogers to present the awards to the awardees. And I think if you don't mind to come here, we can take some of the pictures. So the first award was on continuous flow left ventricular assist device support in patients with ischemic versus non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. The authors are listed here. Dr. Chow is not present here. We have Dr. Civitello here. I don't know if Dr. Delgado is here but the award will be received by Dr. Chatterjee if you don't mind to come to the podium. While he is getting here and for all the individuals that received this award, this is not just a paper. They received $5,000. And I think it's a very generous award from Texas Heart Institute Board. And congratulations. But we do have also recogation awards for all the faculty or all the authors here, Dr. Civitello. And I don't know if Dr. Delgado is there. Anyhow, for those that are not here, the information and awards will be sent to them. The second award, and again by a popular demand, was given to Dr. Alexander Pustalian on simple transcending valed replacement with conscious sedation, safety and effectiveness in real world practice. This is from our experience at our institution. And Dr. Pustalian, please come here to receive your award. You already had a check and you bought a... Ferrari? I just want to make a quick comment. First of all, it's an honor and a privilege not only to receive this award but to be able to stay and work here among such amazing colleagues and team and mentors. And I hope that there's many good things to come in the future. And the other comment is that you saw in the first slide that I was helping choose this. This was when I was a fellow, okay? I didn't choose myself. Excuse me. This is a very appropriate comment because one of the main objectives for this award is to encourage our fellows, to encourage our residents in different specialties, whether it's cardiothoracic surgery, whether it's cardiology, interventional cardiology or cardiopulmonary circulation, congestive heart failure, and so on, heart transplant to a publish in our journal. And also for the faculty, all of you that are here, to encourage you to publish. And this award will continue. So there is a potential that you might be another recipient in the years to come. Now, Dr. Strickman also will get the award. And thank you, Dr. Strickman, for a contribution to this particular topic and patient care and catheterity that has worked diligently and very hard in gathering the data and also with some statistical analysis. And the last one, but not least, is ultrasound computational left ventricular ejection fraction by using temporal intensity variation in the cardiac, synacardiac magnetic resonance. And I'm not sure if anybody from the publication is here. I don't think that Ben Chung is here. How about Dr. Patendekar? No? What is it? He's watching on Zoom. All okay. Well, then congratulations to all of you. And unfortunately, you cannot stand here for the photo, but that's probably the best that you could do. So thank you very much for this very good manuscript.