Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

doctor fruits vegetables vegetarian diet. Embracing a plant-based diet can improve a person’s cardiovascular health, according to a new commentary published in the American Journal of Cardiology.[1] The article, titled “Are We What We Eat? The Moral Imperative of the Medical Profession to Promote Plant-Based Nutrition,” also highlights multiple reasons that choosing plant-based nutrition over animal-based food can be viewed as being better for society as a whole.

Cardiologist urges physicians to promote plant-based diets: ‘We owe it to the profession, our patients and the planet’

The authors of a new commentary in the American Journal of Cardiology argued that well-balanced plant-based diets are good for the heart and good for society as a whole. 

December 1, 2022
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American College of Cardiology announces new collaboration with virtual reality specialists

The ACC is especially excited to see what VR training can do to bring minimally invasive interventional procedures to more and more patients throughout the United States.

November 21, 2022
Interventional cardiologist Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, has been named the new director of Mount Sinai Heart in New York City. He succeeds Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, who held the position since 2006 and will now serve in a more advisory role as Mount Sinai Heart’s president.

Interventional cardiologist Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, named new director of Mount Sinai Heart

Bhatt succeeds Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, who has held the position since 2006 and will now serve in a more advisory role at Mount Sinai Heart.

October 31, 2022
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, director of Mount Sinai Heart and general director of the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research.

Cardiologist Valentin Fuster named president of Mount Sinai Heart

The hugely influential doctor will still serve as the general director of the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

October 18, 2022
Asher Kimchi, MD. Image courtesy of Cedars-Sinai.

‘He will be deeply missed’: Veteran cardiologist, dead at 76, remembered for his kindness and devotion

Asher Kimchi, MD, a veteran cardiologist with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, died on Oct. 7. His friends and colleagues shared loving tributes to his legacy. 

October 17, 2022
overnight night shift attending radiologist burnout. A new policy statement from the American College of Cardiology highlights the importance of career flexibility—including the ability to change hours or work responsibilities when necessary—for cardiologists of all ages. 

Cardiologists explain why career flexibility is needed to thrive in today’s challenging work environment

A new policy statement from the American College of Cardiology highlights the importance of career flexibility—including the ability to change hours or work responsibilities when necessary—for cardiologists of all ages. 

October 14, 2022
Leadership. Healthcare CEO turnover surged in the final months of 2022, indicating that the disruptive labor challenges that have defined this year may not be over.

Industry insights: 4 healthcare executives discuss the biggest challenges in cardiology today

We spoke to executives from some of healthcare's most prominent vendors to find out what challenges are on their radar in 2022 and beyond. 

October 4, 2022
TCT 2022 Robert Califf FDA Commissioner. Robert Califf, MD, the 25th commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), delivered the keynote address in front of a packed room of cardiologists, surgeons and medical device manufacturers. A cardiologist himself—and an adjunct professor of cardiology at the Duke University School of Medicine. He spoke on innovation in cardiology and the need to stop misinformation..

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf delivers fiery speech on innovation, healthcare disparities and misinformation at TCT 2022

“The United States is essentially inventing the technology and then the rest of the world is figuring out how to use it better,” he said.

September 18, 2022

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Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.

Kate Hanneman, MD, explains why many vendors and hospitals want to lower radiology's impact on the environment. "Taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare isn’t just an opportunity," she said. "It’s also a responsibility."

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