46 cardiology leaders on the move in 2022

Here are 46 cardiology leaders who started new roles in 2022:

  1. Aaron Kugelmass, MD, was named executive vice president and chief medical officer of Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Brown Mills, N.J.

  2. Roger Hajjar, MD, was appointed the inaugural director of the Gene and Cell Therapy Institute at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham.

  3. NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in New York City named Sandhya Balaram, MD, PhD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery.

  4. Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai named Tyler Gunn, MD, director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation program in the department of cardiac surgery.

  5. Babak Razani, MD, PhD, joined Pittsburgh VA Medical Center as chief of cardiology.

  6. Dr. Samin Sharma was appointed director of New York City-based Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute.

  7. Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph's Health welcomed cardiothoracic surgeon Bledi Zaku, MD, as chief of the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.11/22

  8. Adam de Jong was named vice president of Lee Health's cardiovascular services in Fort Myers, Fla.

  9. Dr. Sameh Said has been appointed chief of the section of pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery for Valhalla, N.Y.-based Maria Fareri Children's Hospital and Westchester Medical Center.

  10. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health named Binoy Singh, MD, chair of the department of cardiovascular medicine at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.

  11. Deepak Bhatt, MD, was appointed director of New York City-based Mount Sinai Heart.

  12. Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, was named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Heart Association.

  13. Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger promoted Dr. Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman to chief of clinical electrophysiology.

  14. Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute appointed Keki Balsara, MD, as surgical director of heart failure and transplantation.

  15. Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine named Douglas Johnston, MD, surgical director of its Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and chief of the department of cardiac surgery at its medical school and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

  16. Cardiologist Lara Shekerdemian, MD, was named chair of the department of pediatrics at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine.

  17. Mineola, N.Y.-based NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island named Mohammed Imam, MD, chair of its department of cardiothoracic surgery.

  18. San Francisco-based UCSF Health's Heart and Vascular Center welcomed Sammy Elmariah, MD, as chief of interventional cardiology and medical director of cardiac catheterization labs.

  19. Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute hired Dr. Rakesh Arora as director of perioperative and cardiac critical care and research director in the division of cardiac surgery.

  20. Eric Choi, MD, was appointed vice chairman of the department of surgery and a member of the division of vascular surgery at Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph's Health.

  21. Martha Gulati, MD, was named director of preventive cardiology and associate director of the Los Angeles-based Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center as well as associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Department of Cardiology at Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute.

  22. Shuping Ge, MD, a pediatric cardiologist, was appointed Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Medical Center's system chair of the department of pediatric and adult congenital cardiology.

  23. New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Sunil Rao, MD, director of interventional cardiology and director of the NYU Langone cardiac catheterization laboratory.

  24. Kathryn Lindley, MD, joined the heart institute at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center to direct its new women's heart center.

  25. Medical claims auditor MedReview named Michael Menen, MD, its new chief medical officer.

  26. CHI Health Nebraska Heart in Lincoln appointed Rick Thompson, MD, its new president.

  27. The American College of Cardiology selected B. Hadley Wilson, MD, as its next president.

  28. The American College of Cardiology named Melvin Echols, MD, its new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer.

  29. Cedars-Sinai's Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles named Michael Bowdish, MD, vice chair of the department of cardiac surgery.

  30. Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute named Thomas MacGillivray, MD, physician executive director of cardiac surgery.

  31. Digital health company Savor Health selected Tony DeFrance, MD, to serve as chief medical officer.

  32. Jupiter (Fla.) Medical Center appointed interventional cardiologist Augusto Villa, MD, as medical director of the structural heart program at its Robson Heart & Vascular Institute.

  33. Daniel Kelly, MD, was chosen to serve as director of the cardiovascular institute at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

  34. Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD, an advanced heart failure specialist, was elected the 19th president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.

  35. Michael Berlowitz, MD, joined Central Maine Healthcare as chief of the Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute in Lewiston.

  36. Edward Fry, MD, began his one-year term as president of the American College of Cardiology.

  37. The department of medicine at University of Louisville (Ky.) selected Kim Williams Sr., MD, to serve as chair.

  38. Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital selected Jeptha Curtis, MD, to serve as medical director of cardiac catheterization laboratories.

  39. Catholic Health in Rockville Centre, N.Y., named Omar Khalique, MD, director of the division of cardiovascular imaging for both the health system and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn, N.Y.

  40. West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health named Richard Lazzaro, MD, southern region chief of thoracic surgery.

  41. Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine named Marc Moon, MD, its new head of cardiothoracic surgery.

  42. Yanbin Dong, MD, PhD, was named director of Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

  43. Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Hospital appointed John Filippone, MD, division chief of cardiology.

  44. Burlington County, N.J.-based Deborah Heart and Lung Center appointed S. Justin Szawlewicz, MD, chair of cardiology.

  45. Connecticut-based Hartford HealthCare Heart and Vascular Institute named Craig Thompson, MD, the institute's first system director of interventional cardiology and director of interventional cardiology at Hartford Hospital.

  46. NYU Langone Health in New York City named Ralph Mosca, MD, chair of the department of cardiothoracic surgery.

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