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…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has tapped Larry Markham, MD, to serve as director of its division of pediatric cardiology and co-director of the Pediatric Heart Institute at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital beginning April 1. Dr. Markham will…
Stony Brook (N.Y.) Heart Institute’s Center for Advanced Lipid Management has become the first center in the world to administer plozasiran for treatment of familial chylomicronemia syndrome. An estimated 6,500 people in the U.S. experience FCS, a condition associated with…
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s heart transplant program boasts a 100% three-year survival rate, making it one of the top-ranked programs in the country. All patients who underwent a heart transplant at the Pennsylvania hospital between January…
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida has appointed Marcos Nores, MD, as medical director for the Christine E. Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute at Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital. Dr. Nores previously served as medical director of cardiovascular services…