| Year Award |
| 2023 Robert L. Frye Award, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation |
| 2023 Hugh Sinclair Award, British Society of Atherosclerosis |
| 2023 Albert Struyvenberg Award of the European Society of Clinical investigation |
| 2023 Honorary Member, Hungarian Society of Cardiology |
| 2023 Honorary Member, Swiss Society of Cardiology |
| 2019 Best Textbook in Cardiology by the British Medical Association, London, UK |
| 2019 Andreas-Güntzig-Award and Lecture, Swiss Society of Cardiology, Interlaken, Switzerland |
| 2018 C3 Interventional Academy,Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics, Orlando Florida, USA |
| 2018 Medal of the Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow |
| 2018 Werner Forssmann Award, Charité Berlin |
| 2018 Gold Medal of the Serbian Heart Failure Society, Annual Congress CardioS |
| 2017 Honorary membership, Peruvian Society of Cardiology |
| 2017 Paul-Morawitz-Preis 2017, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie |
| 2014 CardioCentro Award 2014, CardioCentro Lugano, Schweiz |
| 2014 6th Annual Robert L. Krakoff International Lectureship in Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA |
| 2012 Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award, Mayo Clinic, USA |
| 2008 The Khwarizmi International Award, Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 2007 ESC Andreas Grüntzig Lecture on Interventional Cardiology and Silber Medal |
| 2001 Theodor Nägeli Preis für Thromboseforschung |
| 2001 Björn Folkow Award of the European Society of Hypertension |
| 1994 W. H. Hauss-Preis, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Arterioskleroseforschung |
| 1993 Mack Forster Award, European Society for Clinical Investigation |
| 1993 Attilio Reale Prize for Basic Cardiology |
| 1991 Volhard Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Nephrologie |
| 1990 Wissenschaftspreis der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin |
| 1990 Young Investigator Award (First Prize), 11th World Congress of Cardiology |
| 1989 Wissenschaftspreis der Theodor Nägeli Stiftung |
| 1988 Wissenschaftspreis der Schweizerischen Herzstiftung |
| 1988 Young Investigator Award (Second Prize), European Society of Cardiology |
| 1986 Prize of the Clinical Paper Competition, 67th Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, San Francisco/Ca. |