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Women's Health Research at Yale has funded three new studies aimed at improving screening for earlier detection of ovarian cancer, reducing premature births caused by infection, and understanding sex and gender differences in thoracic aortic disease.
- June 05, 2023
The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the appointment of cardiac surgeon, Rita Milewski MD, PhD, as Co-Director of the Adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program for the Yale New Haven Health Heart & Vascular Center.
- March 07, 2023
We are pleased to announce Dr. Roland Assi as Medical Director of Perfusion for YNHHS Heart and Vascular Center.
- November 21, 2022
This month researchers examined hospital web page content about percutaneous closure of the left atrial appendage occlusion and clinical decision-making.
- November 08, 2021
A multidisciplinary team of surgeons from Yale's Aortic Institute and the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, both part of Yale New Haven Health’s Heart and Vascular Center, is among the first in the country to employ a novel aortic stent graft system for the minimally invasive treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms.
- August 07, 2018Source: Yale Medicine
Read how a Yale Medicine team, including John Elefteriades, MD, a heart surgeon and director of the Yale Center for Advanced Thoracic Aortic Disease at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Aortic Institute helped get Robert Palmer back to his life (and into his race car) again.
- May 30, 2018
The Department of Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery at Yale University received the highest Composite Quality Rating by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Database in four of five procedure categories: isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR); combined AVR and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG); mitral valve repair and replacement (MVRR); and combined MVRR and CABG.
- November 12, 2017
Arnar Geirsson, MD, who has pioneered several minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgical procedures at Yale, has accepted the position of chief of the Section of Cardiac Surgery at Yale School of Medicine.
- August 04, 2017
Using nanoparticles, Yale researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that could reduce organ transplant complications by hiding the donated tissue from the recipient’s immune system.
- May 03, 2017
Connecticut Magazine’s 2017 “Top Docs” list includes 67 Yale Medicine physicians, who were selected based on a survey of their peers.