Cardiology

Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital Health System appointed Dean Kereiakes, MD, as president of its Heart and Vascular Institute effective Jan. 1. 

Below are eight cardiologists who recently joined new practices.

The FDA greenlighted a new heart transplant method for use in a clinical trial at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital that would significantly expand the amount of eligible donor hearts. 

Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine named Joseph Forbess, MD, a nationally recognized pediatric and neonatal surgeon, as surgical director of the Children's Heart Program at the University of Maryland's Children's Hospital Dec. 21. 

The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association released updated guidelines Dec. 17 for treating heart valve diseases that emphasize less invasive treatments. 

A cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh is suing his employer, the American Heart Association and the publisher of the association's peer-reviewed medical journal, claiming he was demoted and  slandered after penning an op-ed criticizing affirmative action, reports the Pittsburgh…

Vincent Gott, MD, former chief of cardiac surgery at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, died at 93 of heart failure Nov. 20, Johns Hopkins University announced. 

An FDA advisory committee voted to recommend expanded indications for two heart drugs this week.

The American College of Cardiology will launch a women's leadership institute in 2021 to support midcareer female physicians, the organization said Dec. 16.

On Dec. 8, MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas became the first in the state, and one of few in the country, to implant a permanent left atrial appendage closure device on a patient with atrial fibrillation, a condition that causes…