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Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health tapped Malissa Wood, MD, as the system's vice president and chief physician executive of Lee Health Heart Institute, Lehigh Acres Citizen reported July 10.

UT Health Austin and Dell Children's Medical Center physicians performed the world's seventh pediatric partial heart transplant.

Here are the top five cardiology and heart surgery hospitals in Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Ibrahim Abdullah, MD, a cardiovascular surgeon known for successfully performing complex heart surgeries in children has joined the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care in New York City, according to a June 10 news release. 

Willie Lawrence Jr., MD, medical director for the Center For Better Health and Wellness at Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Corewell Health South, discovered his interest in science in fourth grade thanks to a public school community garden.

Here are the top five cancer hospitals in Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings:

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has stayed ahead of the cancer drug shortages thanks in part to its supply chain strategy, officials told The Keene Sentinel July 8.

Thirty-eight oncologists made Castle Connolly's list of top Asian American and Pacific Islander physicians.

Susan Love, MD, breast cancer surgeon, researcher and activist, died July 2 at age 75, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Cancer Center is offering some patients chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in an outpatient setting.