124 cardiologists, cardiology leaders on the move in 2024

From joining physician networks to being named department chair, here are 124 of the latest moves from cardiologists and cardiology leaders:

1. Andrew Krumerman, MD, was named chair of cardiology at Mount Kisco, N.Y.-based Northwell Northern Westchester Hospital and Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.-based Northwell Phelps Hospital. He will also serve as a professor of medicine at the Hempstead, N.Y.-based Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
   
   
2. Euan Ashley, MD, PhD, professor of cardiovascular medicine and founder of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, was named chair of Calif.-based Stanford Medicine’s Department of Medicine.
   
   
3. Marc Allard-Ratick, MD, Lawrence Charles, MD, and Evan Hiner, MD, joined the Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health System's Georgia Heart Institute.
   
   
4. Travis Haneke, MD, and Jacob Morgan, MD, joined the HaysMed DeBakey Heart Institute in Hays, Kan.
   
   
5. Sati Adlakha, DO, joined Memorial Physician Clinics Gulf Coast Heart Institute in Pascagoula, Miss.
   
   
6. Daniel Arman, MD, joined the Quincy, Ill.-based Blessing Health.
   
   
7. Mayank Agarwal, MD, joined the Modern Heart & Vascular Institute in Humble, Texas.
   
   
8. Johnny Chahine, MD, joined St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates in Albany, N.Y.
   
   
9. Huazhen Chen, MD, Nitika Dabas, MD, Alok Dash, MD, Jahan Manjur, MD, and Afsana Rahman, MD, joined Englewood (N.J.) Health.
   
   
10. Jennie Allen-Rich, MD, Christopher Bellotti, MD, Roshan D'Souza, MD, Kimberly Krabill, MD, Joan Lee, MD, Matthew Park, MD, and Addison Gearhart, MD, joined Seattle Children’s Heart Center.
    
    
11. Adebola Orekoya, MD, and Nakeya Dewaswala, MD, joined Decatur, Ill.-based Memorial Specialty Care Cardiology.
    
    
12. Victoria Martin, MD, Darshini Patel, DO, and Brett Begley, MD, joined the Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn. 
    
    
13. Steve Rohn, MD, joined Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth Medical Group Cardiology at Dalton.
    
    
14. Michael Omar, MD, joined Brunswick-based Southeast Georgia Health's Physician Associates-Cardiology practice.
    
    
15. Asad Torabi, MD, joined the Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health Physician Network Cardiology.
    
    
16. Graham Lohrmann, MD, joined Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health.
    
    
17. Michael Benz, MD, is joining Lakewood, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health Medical Group this September, Hudson County’s only cardiac surgery program.
    
    
18. University Hospitals in Cleveland tapped Bernardo Cortese, MD, as co-director of the UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute's Coronary Center.
    
    
19. Savannah, Ga.-based Memorial Health System welcomed four cardiologists to its Mississippi centers:
    
    
    • Mahmoud Zayed, MD
    • William Passarelli, III, MD
    • Rogin Subedi, MD
    • Ediz Tasan, MD
      
      
20. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Heart Institute at CHI Memorial welcomed Tyler Emerson, MD.
    
    
21. Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute welcomed Bernardo Cortese, MD, as the new co-director of its Coronary Center.
    
    
22. Butler, Pa.-based Independence Health System welcomed three new cardiologists to its team:
    
    
    • Stephen Bowser, MD
    • Simon Chough, MD
    • Fouad Jabbour, MD
      
      
23. Nieca Goldberg, MD, will return to practice at NYU Langone in New York City.
    
    
24. Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center welcomed Zina Hajduczok, MD, to the Olympic Medical Heart Center cardiology team.
    
    
25. Simon Malthais, MD, PHD, will be joining Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic as a cardiothoracic surgeon.
    
    
26. George Washington University in Washington, D.C., appointed Steven Boyce, MD, chief of its division of cardiac surgery.
    
    
27. The Heart Failure Society of America recently appointed Kenneth Margulies, MD, a professor at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania, as the board of directors' president-elect for the 2024-25 cycle.
    
    
28. William Smith, DO, joined the North Oaks Cardiovascular Institute in Hammond, La.
    
    
29. Two Stony Brook (N.Y.) Heart Institute cardiothoracic surgeons were inducted into the American Association for Thoracic Surgery:
      
    • Henry Tannous, MD, chief of the cardiothoracic surgery and co-director of SBHI
    • Allison McLarty, MD, director of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program and co-director of the ventricular assist device program.
      
      
30. Thomas Haffey, DO, joined the staff of Sebastian (Fla.) River Medical Center.
    
    
31. Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of the heart transplant program in the department of cardiology in the Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, assumed the top volunteer leadership position of the American Society of Transplantation.
    
    
32. Bellefontaine, Ohio-based Mary Rutan Health welcomed William Houser, MD, to its cardiology team.
    
    
33. Cincinnati, Ohio-based Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute welcomed Manisha Patel, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon, to its team.
    
    
34. Aakriti Gupta, MD, and Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD, cardiologists at the Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, joined the senior editorial team of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, effective July 1.
    
    
35. Najeeb Ahmed, MD, an interventional cardiologist, joined the Columbia, Tenn.-based Maury Regional Medical Center.
    
    
36. HaysMed welcomed cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons Roberto Cervera, MD, and Raja Gopaldas, MD, to the Houston-based DeBakey Heart Institute.
    
    
37. Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, Calif., appointed Maria Ansari, MD, to its board of directors.
    
    
38. Thoracic surgeon Nicholas Baker, MD, joined the WVU Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute at United Hospital Center, both based in Morgantown, W.Va.
    
    
39. The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Heart Institute expanded its staff by adding Neal Miller, MD, cardiologist, and Vanessa Miller, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon.
    
    
40. Gregory Eaton, MD, OhioHealth’s Heart and Vascular system chief of the North Region, and Mary Alton, MD, noninvasive cardiac imaging director of Mansfield Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Program, will be retiring from OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital July 1.
    
    
41. Lewiston-based Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute added Jared Tobolski, MD, to its cardiology staff.
    
    
42. Cardiology Associates of Schenectady in Clifton Park, N.Y., part of St. Peter's Health Partners Medical Associates, added Katherine Riedy-Graves, MD.
    
    
43. Houston-based Texas Children's Heart Center named Daniel Penny, MD, executive co-director of the heart center. He will be joined by Caner Salih, MD, as executive co-director.
    
    
44. The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson appointed Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, director of the Sarver Heart Center and chief of the division of cardiology.
    
    
45. Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua's cardiovascular medicine department added Zhihang Zhang, MD, to its cardiology team.
    
    
46. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Hamilton Cardiovascular Institute welcomed Anand Kenia, MD, as chief of cardiac electrophysiology.
    
    
47. MemorialCare appointed Nissi Suppogu, MD, medical director of its new Women's Heart Center in Long Beach, Calif. 
    
    
48. Nisha Parikh, MD, was named the system director of the Women's Heart Program for Northwell Health's Cardiovascular Institute and the Katz Institute for Women's Health, both based in New York City.
    
    
49. Ashville, N.C.-based AdventHealth Medical Group welcomed cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon R. Duane Cook, MD, to its team.
    
    
50. AdventHealth Hendersonville (N.C.) added Eduardo Balcells, MD, to serve as medical director of cardiology.
    
    
51. Dhanunjaya "DJ" Lakkireddy, MD, medical director of the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute at HCA Midwest Health in Overland Park, Kan., and Rakesh Gopinathannair, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology laboratories at the Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute, were elected to the Heart Rhythm Society board of trustees.
    
    
52. Northwell Health has tapped Andrew Krumerman, MD, to be its director of cardiac electrophysiology for Mount Kisco, N.Y.-based Northern Westchester Hospital.
    
    
53. Andrew Krumerman, MD, was named director of cardiac electrophysiology at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.
    
    
54. Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based Mercy Southeast welcomed Raphael Ngengwe, MD, who specializes in cardiac electrophysiology.
    
    
55. OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital appointed Jennifer Dickerson, MD, as lead physician of its heart and vascular team.
    
    
56. Houston Methodist Cardiology Associates at Sugar Land (Texas) is adding Wafi Momin, DO, to its staff.
    
    
57. Kapil Yadav, MD, will lead the Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Nuclear Cardiology and Vascular Medicine Program.
    
    
58. Priscilla Hsue, MD, was named chief of the division of cardiology at Los Angeles-based UCLA Health.
    
    
59. Los Angeles-based UCLA welcomed Priscilla Hsue, MD, as chief of the division of cardiology, effective July 1.
    
    
60. Wayne Franklin, MD, was appointed senior vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Heart Center, effective in June. 
    
    
61. Webster City, Iowa-based Van Diest Medical Center welcomed cardiologist Kasaiah Makam, MD.
    
    
62. Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' department of internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine added cardiologist Michael Luna, MD, as a professor. 
    
    
63. Fayetteville, N.C.-based FirstHealth Physician Group appointed William Harris, MD, as its medical director of cardiology.
    
    
64. Laguna Hills, Calif.-based MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center named Michael Krychman, MD, medical director of women’s health services.
    
    
65. Raleigh, N.C.-based Independence Health System welcomed Justin Wallace, MD, to its team.
    
    
66. Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC named Sukgu Han, MD, chief of the division of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy.
    
    
67. Maui, Hawaii-based Pacific Permanente Group welcomed interventional cardiologist Jason Call, MD.
    
    
68. Rohinton Morris, MD, chief of the cardiothoracic surgery division at Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, will become Tower Health's cardiothoracic surgery chief on April 15. 
    
    
69. Point Pleasant, W.Va.-based Rivers Health added George Linsenmeyer, MD, to its staff.
    
    
70. Jacksonville, Fla.-based Wolfson Children’s Hospital and the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Heart Institute welcomed four pediatric heart specialists:
    
    
    • Pediatric interventional cardiologist Ram Bishnoi, MD
    • Pediatric electrophysiologist Judy Ashouri, MD
    • Pediatric cardiac intensivist Kaushal Dosani, MD 
    • Pediatric cardiologist and cardiac imaging specialist Umakumaran Ponniah, MD
      
      
71. Valdosta, Ga.-based SGMC Health welcomed cardiothoracic surgeon Patrick Murrah, MD, to the health system.
    
    
72. Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital, both based in New York City, appointed Bernhard Kühn, MD, chief of the division of cardiology in the department of pediatrics.
    
    
73. Eman Rashed, MD, PhD, has joined the advanced heart failure treatment and transplant team at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey.
    
    
74. Interventional cardiologist Charles Mayes Jr., MD, is set to join Dothan, Ala.-based Southeast Health Medical Group's cardiology team in July.
    
    
75. Jennifer Romano, MD, a congenital heart surgeon at Congenital Heart Center/C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., was elected president of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
    
    
76. UP Health System-Marquette (Mich.), a Duke LifePoint hospital, welcomed Chris Liakonis, DO, a cardiothoracic surgeon, to its Heart & Vascular Center.
    
    
77. Aurora-based Children's Hospital Colorado appointed Shelley Miyamoto, MD, head of pediatric cardiology.
    
    
78. Lisa Weiss Forbess, MD, joined the Miami-based Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.
    
    
79. Oskaloosa, Iowa-based Mahaska Health added John Pargulski, DO, to its team of cardiologists.
    
    
80. Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute’s David Ouyang, MD, was named a deputy editor of NEJM AI.
    
    
81. Ridgewood, N.J.-based Valley Health System appointed Suneet Mittal, MD, chair of the cardiovascular service line for the system.
    
    
82. Oskaloosa, Iowa-based Mahaska Health welcomed cardiologist John Pargulski, MD, to its team.
    
    
83. Satya Shreenivas, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer of Cardiac Dimensions, a medical equipment manufacturing company focusing on minimally invasive treatment options for patients who have heart failure with functional mitral regurgitation.
    
    
84. Michelle Bloom, MD, was named system director of the cardio-oncology program at NYU Langone Health in New York City.
    
    
85. Dimitrios Bliagos, MD, has been appointed director of interventional cardiology at NYU Langone Hospital Long Island in Mineola, N.Y.
    
    
86. Humble, Texas-based Modern Heart and Vascular Institute welcomed Mayank Agarwal, MD, to the team.
    
    
87. Cardiothoracic surgeons Nestor Dans, MD, and Nathaniel Kister, MD, joined the Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.
    
    
88. Sylvania, Ga.-based Optim Medical Center-Screven welcomed David Lariscy, MD, to its team.
    
    
89. Peoria, Ill.-based OSF Healthcare welcomed interventional cardiologist Ameer Musa, MD, to its team.
    
    
90. Kearney, Neb.-based CHI Health Clinic Heart Institute added two interventional cardiologists to its staff: Hermang Panchal, MD, and John Waters, MD.
    
    
91. Deb Kiser, BSN, RN, was named executive lead of the new cardiovascular partnership between Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health and The Christ Hospital Health Network.