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As BWH is poised to open the doors of the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center next month, hospital leaders have formed a committee charged with building a truly innovative, integrative Cardiovascular Center of Excellence that provides seamless multidisciplinary care and coordinated services across the distributed campus and network.
BWH President Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, tapped Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department of Medicine, to chair this Cardiovascular Center of Excellence Leadership committee, and Kate Walsh, BWH’s chief operating officer, to serve as co-chair.
“After working to build and now open the Shapiro Center, we can expand on the work of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence towards the elements of cardiovascular care that will differentiate the BW/F for many years to come,” Gottlieb said. “We must focus on care that enables innovation, fuels research and rapidly translates our findings to truly integrated, multidisciplinary care.”
This 15-member group, which began meeting in February, is charged with accelerating the translation of new knowledge in cardiovascular care, ensuring cardiovascular volume growth and functionally integrating all components of care required to create a true center of excellence. The leadership committee will collaborate with and support the other committees and groups that have been working towards opening the Shapiro Center next month.
The Cardiovascular Center of Excellence Leadership committee includes: Dale Adler, MD; Kenneth Baughman, MD; Ralph Morton Bolman, III, MD; Peter R. Brown; Michael S. Conte, MD; Marcelo Di Carli, MD; Joanne M. Foody, MD; Elizabeth Glaser; Mairead Hickey, PhD, RN; Janina Longtine, MD; Marc Pfeffer, MD, PhD; Debra Rogers; and William Stevenson.