- Dominick Bufalino, MD, an interventional cardiologist at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Ill., treated the hospital’s president, Eric Rhodes, when he experienced a near fatal heart attack at work.
- Tara Narula, MD, a cardiologist at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, was named chief medical correspondent at ABC News.
- Interventional cardiologist, researcher and inventor Paul Yock, MD, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by former President Joe Biden.
- A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare’s Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient who had suffered sudden cardiac arrest.
- A team at New York City-based NYU Langone successfully implanted the world’s smallest pacemaker into a newborn baby suffering from a congenital complete heart block.
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