Author: Elizabeth Gregerson

Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National has tapped Lillian Su, MD, as chief of cardiac critical care. Dr. Su most recently served as medical director of the cardiovascular ICU at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and is the current president of the Pediatric Cardiac…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing one of the first double lung-liver transplants in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing…

Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine have appointed Dawood Darbar, MD, as vice president of the system’s cardiovascular service line and co-director of the Heart and Vascular Institute.  Dr. Darbar was also named chair of…

A cardiology team at Manhasset, N.Y.-based North Shore University Hospital’s Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital became the first in the world to implant the industry’s smallest defibrillation lead.  The procedure was led by Laurence Epstein, MD, system director of electrophysiology…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has tapped Larry Markham, MD, to serve as director of its division of pediatric cardiology and co-director of the Pediatric Heart Institute at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital beginning April 1.  Dr. Markham will…

Stony Brook (N.Y.) Heart Institute’s Center for Advanced Lipid Management has become the first center in the world to administer plozasiran for treatment of familial chylomicronemia syndrome.  An estimated 6,500 people in the U.S. experience FCS, a condition associated with…

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida has appointed Marcos Nores, MD, as medical director for the Christine E. Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute at Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital. Dr. Nores previously served as medical director of cardiovascular services…

The stroke program at Santa Monica, Calif.-based Providence Saint John’s Health Center operates as part of a highly integrated, collaborative care model — enabling it to become one of the 13% of hospitals nationwide to earn the American Heart Association’s…

Abbas Zaidi, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Wilmington-based Nemours Children’s Health Delaware Valley, has developed an AI model that successfully predicted more than three-quarters of care gaps for pediatric congenital heart disease. He presented the research at the American Heart…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received a 10-year, $49.5 million contract to serve as a coordinating center for the Jackson Heart Study.  Associate professors of biostatistics and data science, Leann Long, PhD, and Clemontina Davenport, PhD,…