Cardiology

UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). St. Luke’s Hospital tied for the second best hospital in the state in 2016-17, according to U.S. News & World Report. The Magnet-certified hospital provides top-notch care across specialties, though it excels particularly…

Treating intravenous drug users for endocarditis — inflammation of the heart valve related to infection — is putting physicians in harrowing ethical territory, according to a report from NPR.

An Iranian baby banned from the U.S. under President Donald Trump's executive order, can now enter the country to receive a life-saving heart surgery at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, Ore., reports The Washington Post.

Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna and HeartWell, a medical practice with 23 cardiologists in nine south Florida offices, launched a program to improve quality and cost of care for chronic coronary artery disease patients.

Robert Phillips, MD, PhD. Executive Vice President, CMO and Specialty Physician Group President and CEO of Houston Methodist. Dr. Phillips is a professor of cardiology at the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine in addition to his various leadership roles…

Sunny Bhatia, MD. CMO of Prime Healthcare Division I (Ontario Calif.). Dr. Bhatia is responsible for Prime Healthcare’s 17 hospitals throughout California and Nevada as CMO of Division I. Additionally, he is CMO at Sherman Oaks (Calif.) Hospital and Encino…

Individuals suffering from cardiac arrest who receive bystander-initiated CPR while waiting for an ambulance to arrive have higher survival rates, according to a recent study published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

Elizabeth Nabel, MD. President of Brigham and Women’s Health Care (Boston). Dr. Nabel has served as the president of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Health Care since 2010. In 2015, she was appointed as the chief health and medical advisor to…

Marti Taylor. CEO of University Hospital, Executive Director of Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital and COO of the Heart & Vascular Center (Columbus, Ohio). Ms. Taylor knows what it means to “wear multiple hats”; since taking on the additional role…

Elizabeth Nabel, MD. President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston). Since 2010, Dr. Nabel, who is also a professor of medicine at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, has served as president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. A cardiologist and biomedical researcher,…