Author: Erica Cerutti

The Children's Heart Foundation has named Gail Roddie-Hamlin president and CEO, effective April 12. 

An interventional cardiologist at Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health has performed the state's first intravascular lithotripsy, a procedure in which a balloon is inserted into the artery and delivers sonic pressure waves to break off calcified plaque, which optimizes stent placement,…

New York City-based Mount Sinai has opened its first outpatient cardiology center in the city's Brooklyn borough, the health system announced April 6.

Roslyn, N.Y.-based St. Francis Hospital, part of Catholic Health, has named Ziad Ali, MD, director of its DeMatteis Cardiovascular Institute, according to an April 7 announcement shared with Becker's. 

A partnership between three health systems will soon bring Grand Rapids, Mich., its second open-heart surgery program, MiBIz reported April 6. 

A story about clinicians at Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth implanting a leadless pacemaker in the first U.S. patient was Becker's most-read cardiology story in March. 

Charles Hatcher, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon and former vice president of health affairs at Atlanta-based Emory University, died March 27 at Emory University Hospital. He was 90. 

Dipti Itchhaporia, MD, started her one-year term as president of the American College of Cardiology April 1. 

The FDA approved the world's first nonsurgical heart valve device meant to treat patients with severe pulmonary valve regurgitation, which often is a result of congenital heart disease, the agency announced March 26. 

Between 10 percent and 15 percent of women experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, including six that increase the risk of developing heart disease later in life, the American Heart Association said in a statement published March 29 in Circulation.