50 cardiologists on the move

Here are 50 recent cardiology moves from U.S. hospitals and health systems:

Note: This list is updated periodically and is not exhaustive.

1. Krishna Prabhu, MD, joined Aitkin, Minn.-based Riverwood Healthcare Center’s cardiology provider team. 
   
   
2. Joseph Lamelas, MD, will join Naples (Fla.) Comprehensive Health’s Rooney Heart Institute Oct. 15. 
   
   
3. Sara Pereira, MD, and Matthew Feinstein, MD, joined Indianapolis-based Indiana University and IU Health to serve as co-leaders of its Cardiovascular Institute. 
   
   
4. Michael Halista, MD, joined the Palm Beach (Fla.) Health Network Physician Group. 
   
   
5. Eli Friedman, MD, joined the Smidt Heart Institute at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai to lead its newly established sports cardiology program. 
   
   
6. Paul Sorajja, MD, joined Phoenix-based Banner Health as associate director of the Banner Heart Institute, interventional cardiology and structural heart director, and the Lentsch Family director of structural heart for Banner’s cardiovascular service line. 
   
   
7. Greg Kasper, MD, joined Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute in Weston, Fla., as director of vascular services and the Len Stuart Distinguished Chair in Vascular Surgery. 
   
   
8. Ahmed Noor, MD, joined Danville, Ky.-based Ephraim McDowell Health’s Heart & Vascular Institute. 
   
   
9. Farhan Ayubi, DO, joined Las Vegas-based Nevada Heart & Vascular Center. 
   
   
10. Abilio Coello, MD; Howard Katzman, MD; Young Lee, MD; Anand Tarpara, MD; Michele Taubman, MD; Ignacio Rua, MD; and Athanassios Tsoukas, MD, joined Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. 
    
    
11. Muhammad Ahsan, MD; Ishtiaque Mohiuddin, MD, PhD; and John Brooks, MD, joined Lumberton, N.C.-based UNC Health Southeastern.
    
    
12. Pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon Elisabeth Martin, MD, joined Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago as director of the hospital’s pulmonary artery reconstruction program and surgical outcomes research.
    
    
13. Snehal Patel, MD, joined New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health as system director of heart failure at the Northwell Transplant Institute and Northwell Cardiovascular Institute.
    
    
14. Mark Twite, MD, joined Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health as chief of cardiac anesthesia at the Nemours Children’s Cardiac Center in Wilmington, Del.
    
    
15. Bradley Taylor, MD, joined Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health as chief of cardiac surgery for the system’s North region.
    
    
16. Rabih Chaer, MD, joined Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine as chief of vascular and endovascular surgery, and as an associate professor of surgery.
    
    
17. Eric Weiss, MD, joined Miami Beach, Fla.-based Mount Sinai Medical Center as president of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.
    
    
18. Jack Sun, MD, joined Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag as director of cardiovascular surgery at the Jeffrey M. Carlton Heart & Vascular Institute.
    
    
19. Shyam Sathanandam, MD, joined Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital as chief of cardiovascular medicine. 
    
    
20. Cardiothoracic surgeons Asad Shah, MD, and Timothy Lee, MD, joined Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Saddleback Medical Center in Laguna Hills, Calif.
    
    
21. Randolph Hutter, MD, joined the Great Falls (Mont.) Hospital Heart Center.
    
    
22. Max Mitchell, MD, was named chief of congenital heart surgery at Denver-based HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s.
    
    
23. Rajamiyer Venkateswaran, MD, joined University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Medicine as the chief of heart, mechanical circulatory support and lung transplant, and a professor in the division of transplantation.
    
    
24. Geraldine Ong, MD, was appointed as medical director of New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Aortic Center.
    
    
25. Glenn Jacobowitz, MD, was named director of ambulatory vascular surgery for New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health’s Western Region.
    
    
26. Mark Hardin, MD, joined the department of surgery at Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
    
    
27. Carlos Alfonso, MD, was named director of chronic total obstruction and complex percutaneous coronary intervention at the Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.
    
    
28. Yung Lau, MD, was appointed physician-in-chief of Birmingham-based Children’s of Alabama.
    
    
29. Shant Manoushagian, MD, and Juan Gaztanaga, MD, joined Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health as director of cardiac imaging at Gulf Coast Medical Center and as medical director of cardiac CT/advanced imaging at HealthPark Medical Center, respectively.
    
    
30. Nine cardiologists joined the Heart Center at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago: Raya Safa, MD, Rohit Loomba, MD, Ashish Garg, MD, Jeff Hong, MD, Edward Jones, MD, Sheena Mansukhani, DO, Alan Wang, MD, Lindsey Gakenheimer-Smith, MD, and Andrew Ligsay, MD.
    
    
31. Timothy “Eric” Bowen, MD, and Zaid Alirhayim, MD, joined Mountain Home, Ark.-based Baxter Health’s cardiovascular clinic.
    
    
32. Alexandre d’Audiffret, MD, joined Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Heart & Vascular Center.
    
    
33. Tansel Turgut, MD, joined the physician network of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health, and is practicing at the Franciscan Health Heart Center.
    
    
34. Sean Forrest, MD, joined Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health’s CVA Heart Institute.
    
    
35. Kazeen Abdullah, MD, joined Smyrna, Tenn.-based TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center’s Centennial Heart at StoneCrest facility. 
    
    
36. Francis O’Neill, MD, joined Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Heart Specialists.
    
    
37. Jorge Miranda, MD, joined Houston-based Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care and will lead the institute’s limb preservation clinic.
    
    
38. Hafiz Khalid, MD, joined Cincinnati-based Mercyhealth’s Heart and Vascular Center in Crystal Lake, Ill.
    
    
39. Ryan Longmore, DO, joined Pocatello, Idaho-based Portneuf Heart and Vascular Institute.
    
    
40. Andrew Krumerman, MD, was appointed chair of cardiology at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health’s Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.