Cardiology

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is celebrating the fifth anniversary of a $50 million gift, the then largest gift in the health system's history which established the Smidt Heart Institute, according to a March 12 report from the Beverly Hills Courier.

Lafayette, La., is the best paying city for cardiologists of any experience level regardless of practice setting, paying an average salary of $613,553, according to the Medscape Salary Explorer.

The American College of Cardiology has awarded its annual Bernadine Healy Leadership in Women's Cardiovascular Disease award to Karol Watson, MD, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. 

Life sciences company Merck has seen an improvement in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients using its new signaling inhibitor sotatercept in a phase three clinical trial. 

California has the most practicing cardiologists of any state, according to data collected in January 2023 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento has become the first hospital in the region to perform the transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure.

B. Hadley Wilson, MD, an interventional cardiologist, began his one-year term as president of the American College of Cardiology. 

Cardiology could be the next big growth opportunity for ASCs. 

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Cleveland Clinic has been named the best cardiology hospital in the world for 2023 by Newsweek in collaboration with consumer data company Statista.