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Martha Gulati, MD, an expert in preventive cardiology and women’s heart disease, has joined the Smidt Heart Institute as director of Preventive Cardiology, associate director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center and associate director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center i ... Read more

Claudia Huerta, 43, knows a thing or two about transformations. After being diagnosed with a serious, though common, heart condition called atrial fibrillation (AFib), the payroll manager and Maywood, California, resident transformed herself from being overweight and overstressed to being a lean, he ... Read more

Lali Medina-Kauwe, PhD, former co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program in Cedars-Sinai Cancer, has assumed a new role as associate director for Basic Research. The Cancer Biology Program will now be led by Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD, professor of Biomedical Sciences, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ... Read more

As the COVID-19 pandemic eases, many people are going back: back to work, back to school, back to normal lives.But one group that hasn’t gone back is the volunteers. Across the U.S., volunteer activity remains low, even as charitable giving has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.“At Cedars-Sinai M ... Read more

FINDINGSA study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) found that among patients with aortic stenosis undergoing transfemoral TAVR, the use of a debris capturing device called cerebral embolic protection reduced the risk of disabling stroke from 1.3% to 0.5%.Cedars-Sinai, unde ... Read more

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Sept. 8-15. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone, who will add it to next week’s collection.AnesthesiologyAdvanced Diagnostic ... Read more

and cardiac surgeons in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai know all too well the danger that looms when a patient experiences a tear in their heart’s main artery, called an aortic dissection. The condition, however, is often mistaken by patients—and even some physicians and nurses—for ... Read more

Crónica recientemente entrevistó al cardiólogo intervencionista Dr. Raj Makkar, vicepresidente de Innovación e Intervención Cardiovascular de Cedars-Sinaí y Stephen R. Corday, MD, Presidente de Cardiología Intervencionista, sobre las últimas investigaciones y tecnologías en reparación y re ... Read more

Time recently interviewed Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging in the Department of Cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about a study she led that found many individuals infected with the Omicron variant of the virus t ... Read more

ssion tomographic (PET) images than physicians, even when obtained from very-low-radiation CT attenuation scans.These calcium scores found within the heart provide an accurate measure of atherosclerosis—a buildup of fats, cholesterol and other substances found in the artery walls that can lead to ... Read more