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14 unusual facts about cardiology


Alberto Carlos Taquini

A member of the Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine, he received around 100 national and international awards and was named an Honorary Member of the American College of Physicians, the American Physiological Society, the American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology.

Antonis Samaras

He is the son of Dr. Konstantinos Samaras, who was a Professor of Cardiology, and Lena, née Zannas, a maternal granddaughter of author Penelope Delta.

Bustamante Hospital for Children

The hospitals deals with General Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Asthma and Respiratory ailments, Nephrology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT), Plastic and Burns, Ophthalmology and more.

Gilan University of Medical Sciences

president =انوش برزگر
Anoush Barzegar, fellow of Cardiology|

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton was a member of several national, state, and local medical associations: the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physians, the American Thoracic Society, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Aesculapian Society, the Indiana Thoracic Society, and the Marion County Medical Society.

John R. Cockcroft

John R Cockcroft is Professor of Cardiology at the Heart Research Institute in Cardiff, Wales.

John S. Rumsfeld

In 2005, he was named the Chief Science Officer for the American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Program.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees, and is the current Chair of the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council.

John S. Rumsfeld (born 16 June 1964) is Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and National Director of Cardiology for the U.S. Veterans Health Administration.

Lourdes Health System

Cardiology: Lourdes’ signature service, the hospital is one of the largest providers in the Delaware Valley.

Ofelia M. Samar-Sy

Ofelia Manibog Samar-Sy, M.D., FPCP is a Filipino physician in Internal medicine and Cardiology, medical educator, researcher, businesswoman, and socio-civic leader, who is also deeply involved in humanitarian enterprises.

Paul Dorian

He continued training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Toronto, and received certification by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine in 1983 and certification in Cardiology in 1984.

Skejby Sygehus

Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, has eight medical specialities: Infectious disease, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic surgery, Nephrology, Urology, Pediatrics, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, and peripheral vascular diseases.

Vasse Felix

Cardiologist Dr. Tom Cullity planted the first Margaret River vines on the eight acres of land that he had bought for $75 an acre on Harman’s Road south, in 1967.


American Society for Apheresis

ASFA represents a broad range of health care professionals involved in apheresis medicine including those practicing pathology, transplantation, hematology, oncology, neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, hepatology, gastroenterology, cardiology, and ophthamology.

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

The official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.

Annapoorna Kini

She is co-author (with Dr. Samin K. Sharma) of Coronary artherectomy: Contemporary concepts in cardiology and (with Dr. Valentin Fuster) of Definitions of acute coronary syndromes in Hurst's The Heart.

Asian Heart Institute

Asian Heart Institute (AHI), is an Indian cardiac care hospital, established in 2002, located in the western suburb of Bandra, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

B. K. Goyal

Goyal is a visiting professor of cardiology at the University of Alabama, in USA and visiting cardiologist to the Oschner Heart Institute, New Orleans.

Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

The Institute comprises 11 Departments: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Immunology, Molecular Cardiology, Molecular Genetics (including the Section of Virology), Neurosciences, Pathobiology, Quantitative Health Sciences, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Clinical Physiology

In the health care systems of other countries, the tests performed in Clinical Physiology are often performed by the various organ specialties in Internal medicine, such as Cardiology, Pulmonology, Nephrology, etc.

Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital

Specialists consultants in Dentistry, ENT, Cardiology, Diabetology, Endocrinology, Urology, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Pediatric Surgery, Gastroentrology are available.

Gene Lindsey

Dr. Lindsey joined Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates as a physician in 1975 and practiced cardiology and internal medicine at the Kenmore Square, Wellesley and West Roxbury practices.

Hanoi International American Hospital

The hospital will supposedly offer such services: General Medical Care, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Chiropractic, Psychiatry, Neurology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing Services, Otorhinolaryngology, Acupuncture, Oncology, Cardiology, Pathology.

Indus Hospital

Presently the services that are being offered in outpatient or inpatient categories include nephrology, urology, cardiology, cardiac surgery, general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, ENT, infectious diseases and pain management.

John Wilce

Wilce completed postgraduate training in cardiology at University of Edinburgh in the 1930s and was a professor of preventive medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, specializing in research and treatment of heart disease.

LIRYC

This institute, headed by Professor Michel Haissaguerre along with cardiology teams of the University Hospital of Bordeaux, unites multiple specialties around cardiac electrophysiology from research on ionic channels (microgenerators producing electric flows in cells) to whole heart and patient care.

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

In 2007, Duncan Stewart, formerly Chief Cardiologist of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and Director of Cardiology of University of Toronto, took over as CEO and Scientific Director after the retirement of Ronald Worton.

Precordial thump

James E. Pennington and Bernard Lown's cardiology group at Harvard University are credited with formalizing this technique in the medical literature.

Prince Manuel of Bavaria

Prince Manuel was awarded a PhD degree in biology from Columbia University where he is now a cardiology researcher.

Providence Portland Medical Center

Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the North Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, is a full-service medical center specializing in cancer and cardiac care.

R. Sanders Williams

He then earned an M.D. from Duke University's Medical School in 1974, later completing a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a cardiology fellowship at Duke.

Randolph Chitwood

He is a member of 25 professional societies which include the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Cardiac Surgery Biology Club.

Regeneron

The medicine, one in a class of drugs targeting the PCSK9 gene, reduced patients’ average LDL cholesterol levels to as little as 34 milligrams per deciliter after 12 weeks in the mid- stage study, presented today at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago.

Rey Pagtakhan

He completed his pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship at the Washington University Medical Center/St. Louis Children's Hospital and his Master of Science from the University of Manitoba and respirology fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.

Ron Waksman

Subsequently Waksman completed his fellowship in interventional cardiology in 1994 at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta, GA under Spencer B. King, III.

Roseto, Pennsylvania

Roseto is known in the fields of sociology and cardiology for the Roseto Effect, wherein the close-knit community exhibited half the national average rate of heart disease in the mid-20th century.

Shifa College of Medicine

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan has given approval for training in the specialties of Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Urology and Radiology, leading to FCPS qualification.

Sremska Kamenica

In Upper Kamenica, a small forest houses the Sremska Kamenica Institute, which is the most important and well known institute for cardiology, oncology, and pneumonic diseases in Serbia.

Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology

Pediatric cardiology in SJIC performs all standard pediatric interventional procedures, including percutaneous closure for Atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect and also the relatively rare procedure of percutaneous closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects.