Brown University Health’s Rhode Island Hospital named Mark Cunningham, MD, chief of cardiac surgery.
Dr. Cunningham joins the Providence-based hospital from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as interim chief of cardiac surgery, according to a Feb. 27. He specializes in mechanical circulatory support, valve surgery, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and complex aortic surgery, including transcatheter endovascular aortic repair. He also holds the Karl E. Karlson, MD, and Gloria A. Karlson Professorship in Surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Before starting his career in medicine, Dr. Cunningham was an aeronautical engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
He succeeds Frank Sellke, MD, who retired.
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