Becker's Cardiology

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S, and the hospital and health system heart programs on this list are leading the fight against it.  Becker’s is proud to recognize the hospitals and health systems that are…

Dual-trained physicians are rare, but they add valuable insight for patient care and system operations, Mohammed Imran Aslam, MD, director of acute mechanical circulatory support and director of Robert Kung Interventional Heart Failure Clinical and Research Fellowship Program at Boston-based…

U.S. News and World Report rated 500 hospitals as high performing for pacemaker implantation. U.S. News evaluated roughly 4,500 hospitals on how well they treated pacemaker implantation patients by analyzing patient survival rates, recovery at home, number of patients treated…

Cleveland-based UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute named Ravi Ramani, MD, and Yasir Abu-Omar, MD, PhD, co-presidents. As co-presidents, they will share oversight for clinical, operational, financial, academic and strategic performance, according to an Oct. 9 system news release shared…

Clinical judgment is the most common contributing factor in cardiology malpractice claims. Claims involving patient behavior, such as not following treatment regimens, carry the highest average payment, at more than $425,000. Napa, Calif.-based The Doctors Company analyzed 321 analyzed cardiology…

At Boston-based Tufts Medical Center, scaling a successful heart transplant program starts with building trust with cardiologists. “They know our team, they know how to reach us, and they remain really involved in the care of their patients,” Sharon Klarman,…

For decades, cardiovascular research studied men and assumed women’s hearts worked the same way. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is working to change that.  Many issues in women’s heart health have been overlooked due to assuming women’s symptoms looked…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine is establishing the Smilow Center for Precision Therapeutics with a $25 million gift from the Smilow Foundation. The center will advance gene-editing and other precision therapies designed to address the underlying causes of cardiovascular disease.  Thomas Cappola,…

From medical directors to chief of cardiology, here are 10 health systems seeking cardiology leaders:

Pediatric heart transplant surgeons at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., have adapted a donor heart recovery method for children, allowing them to transplant donor hearts that otherwise would not have been used.  Surgeons with the…