New York City-based NYU Langone has appointed Noritsugu Naito, MD, PhD, to serve as NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn’s first chief of cardiac surgery.
Dr. Naito will also serve as a clinical associate professor in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, according to an April 9 news release from the health system.
He was a member of NYU Langone’s department of cardiothoracic surgery for four years before serving as the director of cardiovascular surgery at the Shizuoka Medical Center in Japan.
In December, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn expanded its cardiology services to offer more advanced heart treatment, including complex percutaneous coronary interventions and cardiac electrophysiology procedures in all chambers of the heart.
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