Cardiology

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology named Jamieson Bourque, MD, as its president for 2026.  Dr. Bourque is a multimodality imager at the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia, where he serves as medical director of the nuclear cardiology, stress and echocardiography…

Renata Medical named Evan Zahn, MD, as chief medical officer, effective Jan. 1.  Dr. Zahn will step down from his leadership role at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to join Renata full time. He has more than two decades of…

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…

San Jose, Calif.-based Santa Clara Valley Healthcare has expanded cardiology services at St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, Calif., and Valley Health Center Morgan Hill.  New services at the two locations include electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, ambulatory heart rhythm monitoring and treadmill…

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Atlanta-based Emory School of Medicine have performed the world’s first coronary artery bypass without opening the chest wall.  The new procedure, called ventriculo-coronary transcatheter outward navigation and re-entry,  or VECTOR, was developed…

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…

The New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received an $8.5 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance research on long-term outcomes in children with congenital heart disease.  The project, led by…

Here are five cardiologists who have joined new health systems, hospitals and clinics in January.  Note: This list is not exhaustive. 4. Rockford, Ill.-based Mercyhealth added interventional cardiologist Rehmat Sheikh, MD, to its Heart and Vascular Center locations in Crystal…