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Cedars-Sinai Cardiologist Leads the American Society of Transplantation

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Jon Kobashigawa, MD, of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is an expert in heart transplantation, heart failure, and other complex cardiac conditions. Kobashigawa will also represent the American Society of Transplantation in discussions with government agencies and policymakers about organ transplant legislation. “Dr.

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Overcoming the Odds with Expert Fetal Cardiology Care: Zeke and Zane’s Story

Conquering CHD

After struggling with heart failure for the first months of his life, doctors told his parents that Zeke would need a heart transplant immediately. Within one day, our heart transplant team performed the transplant surgery. Now Zane, 6, and Zeke, 5, are living lives the odds said were unlikely.

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Smidt Heart Institute Experts Selected to Join JACC Editorial Team

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Kittleson, director of Heart Failure Research and director of Post Graduate Medical Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, is an associate editor specializing in heart failure. Gupta, an interventional and structural cardiologist, is one of the journal’s new executive associate editors.

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Beyond Survival: Empowering Women by Enhancing Reproductive Health Education for Heart Transplant Recipients

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print.

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American College of Cardiology (ACC) Program Set for Cardiac Oncology Conference, “Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the Oncology Patient”

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Cardio-Oncology Educational Training: What Do I Need to Learn? The goal of the multi-day course, notes planners, is to equip the cardio-oncology community with practical scientific knowledge fostering the progression of patient-centered, evidence-based, collaborative cardiovascular and cancer care for patients living with and beyond cancer.

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The Thoracic Surgery Foundation Awards Inaugural International Fellowships

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

The TSF/FFF Fellowship—established in 2021—will help fund international travel and living expenses, allowing the awardees to continue their education outside of their home countries. Professor Large and his team are at the forefront of innovation with respect to nonthermic regional perfusion heart transplantation,” said Dr. Fiedler.

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Knowledge and application of ESC/HFA guidelines in the management of advanced heart failure

European Journal of Heart Failure

Correct responses regarding the recommendation class for heart transplantation were 84%, 55%, and 60% ( p <0.0001), and for MCS as a bridge to transplantation, 69%, 65%, and 55% ( p =0.018) among HFCs, GCs, and OPs, respectively. of HFCs, 19.6% of GCs, and 18.2% of OPs ( p =0.0005). of HFCs, 19.6% of GCs, and 18.2%