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2014 Best Manuscript Awards

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) created awards for the best manuscripts received before and after the annual meeting. They were submitted to Innovations for publication. All of these papers were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Boston, MAUSA. Of the 23 manuscripts in contention, they were from 11 countries. Eleven made it through the review and revision process (7 before/during the meeting; 4 after the meeting) and were accepted for publication. There were 16 manuscripts in the group submitted before or during the annual meeting and 7 manuscripts in competition that were submitted afterward. A committee was convened and graded the manuscripts. The committee consisted of the two past presidents of ISMICS, the editor of Innovations, the secretary of ISMICS, and three members of our Editorial Board. The winner for the best paper submitted before or during the annual meeting was “A Geometric Model of the Normal Human Aortic Root and Design of a Fully Anatomic Aortic Root Graft” by Philip S. Crooke, PhD, L. Alan Beavan, MSE, Charles D. Griffin, MSE, Domenico Mazzitelli, MD, and J. Scott Rankin, MD (Fig. 1).