Hospitals are rethinking their operations and infrastructure for electrophysiology services amid the specialty’s rapid growth. Electrophysiology is a specialty within cardiology through which the heart’s electrical system is treated and diagnosed. Electrophysiologists treat a range of irregular heart rate conditions…
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Miami-based Baptist Health Heart and Vascular Care named Sanjeev Gulati, MD, executive deputy director and system chief of cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Gulati, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, has extensive experience in cardiovascular program development. He will help the…
Healthcare professionals should no longer have to accept preventable radiation exposure and orthopedic injuries as part of their jobs in the cath labs, according to a consensus statement from six medical societies. “For decades, we accepted occupational radiation exposure and…
Southfield, Mich.-based Corewell Health has performed the world’s first documented single-port robotic mitral valve repair. The approach replaces the traditional five-port technique with a single robotic port and a second small access incision, reducing tissue disruption, according to a July…
It’s a familiar scenario: A group of computer science and AI specialists on one side of the table says “this project is going to change cardiology,” and cardiologists on the other side of the table say “this is totally useless.”…
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Electrophysiology is one of the fastest-growing subspecialties, but workforce pipelines are not keeping up with demand, hospital leaders told Becker’s. Like many specialties, there are a limited number of fellowship training positions, but the electrophysiology fellowship also was extended from…
Phoenix-based Banner Health performed a first-of-its-kind in the U.S. minimally invasive cardiac procedure on an 89-year-old man. The patient, George Berry, was diagnosed with severe tricuspid valve regurgitation, according to a July 9 system news release. Several years ago, he…
New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai named Samin Sharma, MD, chief of clinical cardiology. Dr. Sharma will oversee the strategic direction and daily clinical operations of the cardiology division, according to a July 8 system Facebook…
Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai named Michael Shehata, MD, director of the division of cardiac electrophysiology. As division director, Dr. Shehata, a cardiac electrophysiologist, will oversee the program and its fellowships, according to a July 2 system news…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y.) named Robin Ulep, MD, co-director of the Stroke Center and vice chair of neurology. Dr. Ulep, a vascular neurologist, will lead clinical care, quality improvement, education and program development for the hospital’s stroke services, with…