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…
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Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built one of the country’s most ambitious transplant programs. Whether performing the first double lung-liver transplant in the U.S., eliminating all traces of colorectal cancer for a terminal patient through a liver transplant, providing an anesthesia-free…
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…
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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…
Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Heart Institute became the first known pediatric program in Florida, and one of few globally, to perform the Ozaki procedure for pulmonary valve repair in children. The technique reconstructs the patient’s heart valve using their own pericardial…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health has received accreditation in adult congenital transthoracic echocardiography from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. The system is the eighth facility in the U.S. and the first in Tennessee to achieve the designation under the IAC’s adult echocardiography…