cardiology

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News – Jun 2022

June 1, 2022September 12, 2022 MD-Update Staff adult congenital electrophysiology, atrioventricular block, cardiology, cardiothoracic, Cardiothoracic surgery, Care, Care hospital, CCAVB, chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, co-director, co-director of Norton child 's heart institute, complete atrioventricular block, congenital structural heart defect, Dasgupta, electrophysiologist, electrophysiology, emergency, epicardial, fidget, generator, heart defect, heart institute, heart institute physician, heart-rate, high incidence of prolonged illness, human implantation, human implantation of a tiny pacemaker, implantation, implantation of a pacemaker, infant, innovative team, IPG, Johnsrude, Joseph, Joseph hospital, Kentucky, KHA, KHA quality award, L., life of an infant, maze, Medtronic, minimum body size, News, Norton, Norton child, Norton child 's heart institute, Norton child 's heart institute physician, pacemaker, pacemaker generator, patient meet, patient thrive, pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric electrophysiologist, pediatric specialist, photo, premature infant, professor, result of the innovative approach, slow heart rate, small patient, Soham Dasgupta, surgery, team of pediatric specialist, tiny pacemaker, traditional path of care, UofL, UofL assistant professor, UofL assistant professor of pediatric cardiology, UofL associate professor, UofL associate professor of pediatric cardiology, UofL professor, UofL professor of cardiothoracic surgery, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, used pacemaker, volunteer, volunteer guild

A First for the United States: Norton Children’s Heart Institute Physicians Implant Tiny Pacemaker, Saving Infant’s Life Patient born at

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Complementary Care 

Silent No More

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Gil Dunn American hypertension specialist certification program, APRN, APRN certification, baptist health, baptist health referral system, blood pressure, cardiology, cardiology nurse practitioner, certification, certified hypertension clinician, CHC, clinician, COVID-19, COVID-19 infection rate, COVID-19 restriction, health referral system, hypertension, hypertension clinician, hypertension clinician certification, hypertension program, hypertension specialist certification program, in-office, in-office hypertension program, in-office visit, Kentucky, Kristy Salley, Lexington, Lexington cardiology, Lexington individual, nurse degree, official hypertension clinician certification, patient flow, refractory hypertension, return of in-office visit, Salley, specialized hypertension program, specialized in-office hypertension program, telehealth, telehealth visit, uncontrolled hypertension

LEXINGTON Individuals in Central and Eastern Kentucky with uncontrolled hypertension have a new ally in their struggle with “the silent

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News – Apr 2022

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 MD-Update Staff affiliate practice, baptist health, Berea, BEREA saint, cardiology, chief executive officer of family practice associate of Lexington, chief operation officer, clinic, commissioner, commonwealth urology, comprehensive lab service, Craig Gillispie, Daisy, Daisy award, diagnostic image center, FACMPE, family practice associate, future of Lexington clinic, Genuity clinical research service, high-performing health care organization, image001 photo, image002 photo, Jason Mullins, Joseph Berea, KDL, KDL pathology, L., leadership, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Lexington Lexington, Lexington Lexington clinic, Lexington-Fayette, LFUCG, LFUCG health department, LFUCG health department L., LFUCG health department S., local honor, McCullough, MD-UPDATE, medical surgical unit team, medical-surgical, MHS, molecular pathology laboratory network, Mullins, new commissioner, new commissioner of health, new operation leadership, News, News item, operation leadership, operation officer, organization 's strategic objective, PA-C, pathology laboratory network, patient care, PhD, photo, physical therapy facility, physician, practice administrator, practice administrator of commonwealth urology, practice transformation effort, public health, Ranee, Ranee guard, S., servant leadership approach, Summit, Summit central laboratory, Summit express clinic, Summit medical group, Summit sleep service, therapy facility, third-floor, transformative vision, transition of the practice, unit team, value-based care

SEND YOUR NEWS ITEMS TO MD-UPDATE > news@md-update.com Lexington Clinic Names New Operations Leadership LEXINGTON Lexington Clinic announced two key

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Headlines 

Leading Cardiologist, Health Equity Expert Named Chair of UofL Department of Medicine

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 MD-Update Staff advance provider wellness, advanced access, American society of nuclear cardiology, cardiac image, cardio-nephrology, cardio-nutrition, cardio-rheumatology, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiovascular radiology, clinical effort, Dean Toni Ganzel, disparity, division of cardiology, educational program of the UofL school of medicine 's large department, equity, expert named chair of UofL department of medicine, faculty, faculty diversity, guidance of clinical effort, health care disparity, health equity, health equity expert, healthcare access, international health care disparity, Kim Williams Sr., lead cardiologist, Louisville, medicine, medicine 's large department, nuclear cardiology, past president of the American college of cardiology, preventive cardiology, renowned cardiologist, UofL, UofL department, UofL department of medicine, UofL health system, UofL school, wealth of expertise, wellness, Williams

LOUISVILLE A nationally renowned cardiologist and health equity expert has been selected to head the UofL Department of Medicine. Kim

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Special Section 

Heart Care Takes a Multidisciplinary Village

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 MD-Update Staff administrative time, appointment, artery monitor, assistant chief of medicine, baptist health, baptist health 's Louisville heart failure, baptist heart failure clinic, battery, battery technology, big disease, blood clot, cardiologist, cardiology, CardioMEMS, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular disease fellowship, care of patient, catheterization, clinic, clinical trial, clot, COVID, CRT-P, disease fellowship, echocardiograms, ER, ER visit, excite option, FACC, failure, flare state, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure clinic, heart failure program, heart failure trial, heart transplant, Heatherly, HF, HF clinic, HF patient, Honor 's college, Honor 's college of western Carolina university, hypertension, hypertension clinic, implantable pulmonary artery monitor, inpatient hospital stay, J., Kentucky, life look, Louisville, Louisville heart failure, Louisville Steven, Louisville Steven J., lung, LVAD, LVADs, MD-UPDATE, MD-Update Q, MDU, MDU Kentucky, medical director, medical school, medication, misconception, monitor, multidisciplinary village, need defibrillator, new PAH clinic, new treatment plan, out-patient, out-patient arena, PAH, PAH clinic, PAH patient, patient population, PH, PH clinic, PhD, physician, principal investigator, procedure, professional life look, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension clinic, randomized clinical heart failure trial, religion major, remote patient monitor, research meet, solid schedule, special pacemaker, specialized area, STEP-HFpEF, Steven Heatherly, surgery, surgical procedure, Uber, valve, varied background, wake forest, WiFi scale

LOUISVILLE Steven J. Heatherly, MD, PhD, FACC, is the system medical director for heart failure and pulmonary hypertension for Baptist

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Special Section 

Knowledge Is Power

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jim Kelsey Ain sham university, artery, Baylor, blockage, blocked artery, cardiac catheterization, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiology fellowship, cardiovascular doctor, cath lab, catheterization, chest, chest pain, chief medical resident, clinic, clinical investigation science, duPont manual high school, El-Refai, environment reward, graduate of duPont manual high school, healthcare decision, heart attack, heart disease, image001 photo, internal medicine train, interventional cardiologist, interventional cardiology fellowship, investigation science, Louisville, Louisville school, medical train, medicine train, Mostafa Osman El-Refai, need procedure, nice perspective, Non-Invasive, non-invasive thing, Norton, Norton Healthcare, Norton Healthcare Mostafa Osman El-Refai, Norton heart, outpatient, outpatient clinic set, overall physician-patient, pain, physician, private suburban hospital, procedure, stable set, Texas heart institute, university of Louisville school of public health, VA, vascular institute, wide variety of clinical experience, young patient

LOUISVILLE To borrow from Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Another way to say that is, just because you

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Special Section 

When Your Mission Is Healthy Hearts, Failure Is Not an Option

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Menisa Marshall advanced heart failure center, advanced heart failure program, advanced heart therapy program, advanced therapy, assist device, cardiologist, cardiology, cath lab procedure, clinic, collaboration drive, collaborative teamwork, coordinator, director of the program 's heart, effectiveness of advanced therapy, emerge information, excite prospect, expert work, failure, failure clinic, familial hyper-cholesterolemia, good quality life, hallmark of UofL health, healthy heart, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure center, heart failure hospitalization, heart failure program, heart pump, heart therapy program, human transplant, hyper-cholesterolemia, importance of prompt referral, innovative heart pump, invasive cath lab procedure, lifestyle, lifestyle choice, lot of option, Louisville NASA, Louisville NASA control director, max-imize, medicine, minimal need, mission of UofL health, modified pig heart, Moore, option, pacemaker-like, pacemaker-like device, pharmacist, pig heart, positive outlook, power of a positive outlook, prevention peg heart disease, program 's heart, program 's transplant, prompt referral, pump, quality life, recent news of a human transplant, referral, related department work, Stephanie Moore, therapy, transplant, transplant coordinator, transplant work team, treatment of valve disease, typical transplant work team, UofL, UofL health, Utah, valve disease, ventricular assist device

LOUISVILLE NASA control director Gene Kranz is often credited for saying, “Failure is not an option.” He claims those exact

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Cover Story 

Stroke of Genius

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jim Kelsey address sleep apnea, amulet, amulet procedure, anticoagulation, appendage, artery, atrial fibrillation, atrium, attractive field, bedside evaluation, bedside evaluation of the patient, big philosophical growth, cardiac rhythm problem, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiovascular care, chi saint, chronic health condition, clot, clot formation, common patient presentation, complicated patient, consequence of hypertension, course of care, data-driven, data-driven decision help, data-driven decision make, director of the structural heart program, Falluji, fibrillation, good understand of the patient, heart 's left atrial appendage, heart program, image001 photo, image002 photo, intervention, interventional cardiologist, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph hospital, left atrial appendage, left atrium, less-scientific, less-scientific information, majority of the condition, Mark Mahan Erin Caldwell, Mark Mahan Nezar Falluji, medicine, MitraClip, Nezar Falluji, non-surgical option, normal contraction, one-half of the arrhythmia, paternal approach, perception, peripheral vascular artery, photo, procedural medicine, procedure, reward realization, rhythm problem, rigid guideline, risk of stroke, source of less-scientific information, stroke, stroke of genius, structural cardiovascular care, structural heart program, TAVR, use of non-invasive test, valvular abnormality, watchman, WATCHMAN™ coordinator

LEXINGTON Trusting the science comes naturally to Nezar Falluji, MD, MPH. As an interventional cardiologist at CHI Saint Joseph Health

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News – Oct 2021

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff $, $1 million investment, 1, Adele, Adele amine, amine, Arun Ummat, baptist health, cardiology, cardiovascular service, Care, Care 11600, care transport nurse, Care welcome, cath, cath lab, catheterization, central baptist hospital, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief flight nurse, clinic, community health system, critical care transport nurse, disorder, doctor, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, endocrinology, executive director, executive director of cardiovascular service, family medicine, guild, GYN, gynecology, health maintenance, healthcare leadership role, image001 photo, image002 photo, Jeevanjot Virk, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph hospital volunteer guild, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, KY 40243, lab, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Lexington Marc Manley, life-saving, life-saving care, local student, Louisville, Louisville Jeevanjot Virk, Louisville primary Care medical group, Manley, Marc Manley, Marina Saad, Mary, medical degree, medical director, medical director of cardiology, medical field, medical group, medical school, medicine, MSN, NE-BC, neurology, new physician, News, north Texas, nurse, Nwagbara, OB, obstetrics, Odago, osteopathic medicine, photo, physician, primary Care 11600 main street, primary Care welcome, Rebekah McDaniel, residency, Sarah Burress, scholarship, school graduate attend, south Louisville, STEMI, STEMI coverage, university of Kentucky, university of north Texas, UofL, UofL health, urgent condition, Virk, Virk 's practice, Virk 's service, volunteer

Baptist Health Primary Care Welcomes Jeevanjot Virk, MD, Family Medicine LOUISVILLE Jeevanjot Virk, MD, has joined Baptist Health Louisville Primary

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News – Aug 2021

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 MD-Update Staff $, $10.6 million partnership, 10.6, accreditation, American college, Aslam, Bahasa Indonesia, baptist health, baptist health team, Bardstown, Behnke, board-certified, cancer, cancer program, cardiology, Care, Care center, Care clinic, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief executive officer, Cleveland, clinic, CoC, De La Cruz, Dimeling, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, emergency, emergency room, ER, Flaget, Flaget memorial, Floyd, formal groundbreaking, freestanding ER, good care, group practice, gynecology, heart procedure, hospice, hospice center, hybrid emergency room, image001 image, innovation, intensive program, internal medicine, intuitive health, invasive heart procedure, J., Jefferson ridge development, JEFFERSONVILLE, Jewish hospital, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, large group practice, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Mary, MBA, medical degree, medical school, medicine, MedOne, MedOne hospital physician, Neltner, News, NSLI-Y, obstetrics, Ohio, onsite, patient care, photo, physician, primary care, procedure, provider, residency, Southern Indiana, Stephen J., stroke, stroke center, surgeon, surgery, TAVR, thoracic surgeon, thoracic surgery, transcatheter, undergraduate education, underserved, university of Virginia, UofL, UofL health, urgent care, urgent care clinic, Vasdev Lohano, year of experience

Baptist Health Teams Up with Intuitive Health, Breaks Ground on Southern Indiana’s First Freestanding ER and Urgent Care JEFFERSONVILLE, IN

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