Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Davenport, announced its 2010 Jesse Stoakes Student Research Program.  The accepted applicants worked on the following:

Archana Chintalapani, Alex Dvorak, and Peter Marogil collected long term outcomes on patients that received the Endeavor Drug Eluting Stent at Genesis Medical Center.  They also participated in several didactic lectures related to clinical research and were able to watch several procedures in the cardia cath lab.

The Stoakes Student Research Program was established in 2006 in memory of Jesse Stoakes, son of Penny and David Stoakes, Bettendorf, who had an avid interest in cardiovascular medicine.  He died at the age of 16 of injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation was established in 2002 by Nicolas W. Shammas, MD, MS, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax exempt scientific and educational foundation dedicated to heart health, education and awareness through quality research and professional and community education programs and projects.