Cardiology

Cleveland Clinic has appointed Kenneth McCurry, MD as director of the health system’s Enterprise Transplant Center.  Dr. McCurry has served as Cleveland Clinic’s program and surgical director for lung and heart-lung transplantation since 2009, according to a Dec. 3 news…

UHealth-University of Miami Health System has tapped Aditya Bharadwaj, MD, as director of clinical research and the cardiac catheterization laboratory.  Dr. Bharadwaj is an associate professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s division of cardiovascular medicine, according…

Alabama, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina have the highest rates of amputation related to peripheral artery disease in the U.S., according to data published by the PAD Collaborative. The PAD Collaborative, established by the…

While women make up about 30% of U.S. surgeons overall, they account for less than 10% of cardiothoracic surgeons, according to a Nov. 29 report by The New York Times.  Over 230 women — including thoracic surgeons as well as…

Miami-based Baptist Health Heart & Vascular Care has appointed Ashok Kumar Coimbatore Jeyakumar, MD, director of aortic disease.  Dr. CJ, as he prefers to be called, most recently served as director of adult cardiac surgery at University of Mississippi Medical…

The Heart Hospital of Austin (Texas) has completed a $1.6 million expansion to its wellness clinic dedicated to serving busy professionals, according to a Nov. 16 report from KXAN Austin.  The hospital’s Executive Wellness program offers comprehensive health assessments through…

From reducing claims denials to identifying heart attacks, here are five ways the cardiology industry has harnessed AI: 

After ditching RVUs and shifting to a value-based compensation model, Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine’s Heart and Vascular Institute grew from 25 providers to more than 200 in less than a decade while also expanding from a $225 million regional program…

When Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health, then dually based in Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee, completed their 2022 merger, the organizations created Advocate Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country. The 69-hospital system…

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health has named Patricia Nicolato, DO, as chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery at the VCU School of Medicine.  Dr. Nicolato has served as interim division chief since August 2023, according to a Nov. 14 system…