Here are seven cardiologists stepping into new roles recently:
- Edward Ladyzhenskiy, MD, joined the cardiology department at Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center, a facility of RWJBarnabas Health hospital affiliations.
- Aaron Kugelmass, MD, was named executive vice president and chief medical officer of Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Brown Mills, N.J.
- Roger Hajjar, MD, has been appointed as the inaugural director of the Gene and Cell Therapy Institute at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham.
- Aaron Kugelmass, MD, was appointed executive vice president and chief medical officer at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Pemberton Township, N.J.
- NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in New York City named Sandhya Balaram, MD, PhD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery.
- 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.
- Babak Razani, MD, PhD, joined Pittsburgh VA Medical Center as chief of cardiology.