Here are 46 cardiology leaders who started new roles in 2022:
- 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, was appointed the inaugural director of the Gene and Cell Therapy Institute at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham.
- 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.
- Dr. Samin Sharma was appointed director of New York City-based Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute.
- Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph's Health welcomed cardiothoracic surgeon Bledi Zaku, MD, as chief of the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.11/22
- Adam de Jong was named vice president of Lee Health's cardiovascular services in Fort Myers, Fla.
- Dr. Sameh Said has been appointed chief of the section of pediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery for Valhalla, N.Y.-based Maria Fareri Children's Hospital and Westchester Medical Center.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health named Binoy Singh, MD, chair of the department of cardiovascular medicine at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
- Deepak Bhatt, MD, was appointed director of New York City-based Mount Sinai Heart.
- Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, was named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Heart Association.
- Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger promoted Dr. Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman to chief of clinical electrophysiology.
- Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute appointed Keki Balsara, MD, as surgical director of heart failure and transplantation.
- Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine named Douglas Johnston, MD, surgical director of its Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and chief of the department of cardiac surgery at its medical school and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
- Cardiologist Lara Shekerdemian, MD, was named chair of the department of pediatrics at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine.
- Mineola, N.Y.-based NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island named Mohammed Imam, MD, chair of its department of cardiothoracic surgery.
- San Francisco-based UCSF Health's Heart and Vascular Center welcomed Sammy Elmariah, MD, as chief of interventional cardiology and medical director of cardiac catheterization labs.
- Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute hired Dr. Rakesh Arora as director of perioperative and cardiac critical care and research director in the division of cardiac surgery.
- Eric Choi, MD, was appointed vice chairman of the department of surgery and a member of the division of vascular surgery at Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph's Health.
- Martha Gulati, MD, was named director of preventive cardiology and associate director of the Los Angeles-based Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center as well as associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Department of Cardiology at Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute.
- Shuping Ge, MD, a pediatric cardiologist, was appointed Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Medical Center's system chair of the department of pediatric and adult congenital cardiology.
- New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Sunil Rao, MD, director of interventional cardiology and director of the NYU Langone cardiac catheterization laboratory.
- Kathryn Lindley, MD, joined the heart institute at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center to direct its new women's heart center.
- Medical claims auditor MedReview named Michael Menen, MD, its new chief medical officer.
- CHI Health Nebraska Heart in Lincoln appointed Rick Thompson, MD, its new president.
- The American College of Cardiology selected B. Hadley Wilson, MD, as its next president.
- The American College of Cardiology named Melvin Echols, MD, its new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer.
- Cedars-Sinai's Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles named Michael Bowdish, MD, vice chair of the department of cardiac surgery.
- Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute named Thomas MacGillivray, MD, physician executive director of cardiac surgery.
- Digital health company Savor Health selected Tony DeFrance, MD, to serve as chief medical officer.
- Jupiter (Fla.) Medical Center appointed interventional cardiologist Augusto Villa, MD, as medical director of the structural heart program at its Robson Heart & Vascular Institute.
- Daniel Kelly, MD, was chosen to serve as director of the cardiovascular institute at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
- Anekwe Onwuanyi, MD, an advanced heart failure specialist, was elected the 19th president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
- Michael Berlowitz, MD, joined Central Maine Healthcare as chief of the Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute in Lewiston.
- Edward Fry, MD, began his one-year term as president of the American College of Cardiology.
- The department of medicine at University of Louisville (Ky.) selected Kim Williams Sr., MD, to serve as chair.
- Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital selected Jeptha Curtis, MD, to serve as medical director of cardiac catheterization laboratories.
- Catholic Health in Rockville Centre, N.Y., named Omar Khalique, MD, director of the division of cardiovascular imaging for both the health system and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn, N.Y.
- West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health named Richard Lazzaro, MD, southern region chief of thoracic surgery.
- Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine named Marc Moon, MD, its new head of cardiothoracic surgery.
- Yanbin Dong, MD, PhD, was named director of Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
- Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Hospital appointed John Filippone, MD, division chief of cardiology.
- Burlington County, N.J.-based Deborah Heart and Lung Center appointed S. Justin Szawlewicz, MD, chair of cardiology.
- Connecticut-based Hartford HealthCare Heart and Vascular Institute named Craig Thompson, MD, the institute's first system director of interventional cardiology and director of interventional cardiology at Hartford Hospital.
- NYU Langone Health in New York City named Ralph Mosca, MD, chair of the department of cardiothoracic surgery.