Cardiology

Below are five cardiologists who recently joined new practices, stepped into new roles or retired.

Below are five cardiologists who recently joined new practices, stepped into new roles or retired.

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare has become the first health system in Georgia to perform 1,000 heart transplants. 

Recent cardiology studies have focused on rebounds in emergency heart care after earlier drops amid the COVID-19 pandemic, predictions on which COVID-19 patients are most vulnerable to developing heart conditions and more. 

The American Heart Association has awarded a team of Penn Medicine researchers $2.9 million to study heart disease and cancer in Black and Hispanic patients. 

No machine, no matter how advanced, will improve the patient experience alone, says Umesh Gidwani, MD, director of the cardiac intensive care unit at New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Hospitalizations for methamphetamine-related heart failure in California increased 585 percent between 2008-18, according to research published July 13 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Setting the expectations too high for telehealth's expansion in cardiology could have unintended consequences, says Subbarao Myla, MD, director of the cardiovascular catheterization laboratories at Newport Beach, Calif.,-based Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian's Jeffrey M Cantor Heart & Vascular Institute.

The surgical team at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital, part of Duke Health, on July 12 became the first in the U.S. to implant a new-generation artificial heart. The recipient was a 39-year-old patient with heart failure. 

Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health has created a cardiogenic shock response team to improve outcomes for those who experience the rare but serious condition.