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Paige Brlecic, M.D., T32 fellow, won the Clifford Van Meter Award for the best scientific paper at the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association annual meeting for her paper “Socioeconomic Status Impacts Readmission after Valve Replacement for Infective Endocarditis.” The paper describes socioeconomic disparities for left-sided valve replacement in infective endocarditis. She also received the James W. Brooks Resident Scholarship to travel to this conference for the same paper.