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New Director comes from Cleveland Clinic

Boston, MA – Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, has been named the new director of the Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the VA Boston Healthcare System (VA) effective July 1, 2008.  In addition, Dr. Bhatt will also serve as the Chief of the Cardiology Section at

the VA Boston Healthcare System and as Senior Investigator at the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group, directed by Dr. Eugene Braunwald.

“As Director of the Integrated Cardiovascular Intervention Program at BWH and the VA, I am excited to be working with a very talented group of interventional cardiologists who are highly skilled at both patient care and research, and very happy that my arrival will coincide with the opening of the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at BWH in May 2008,” said Bhatt.

Dr. Bhatt comes from the Cleveland Clinic, where he has worked on staff in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine since 2001 and more recently as associate director of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center since 2006. 

“I had a wonderful time at the Cleveland Clinic, a fantastic place from which I would have been happy to retire; however the chance to work with this very talented group of academic interventionalists at Brigham and Women’s and the VA and the honor of being the Chief of Cardiology of the VA Boston Healthcare System is too great an opportunity to pass up,” said Bhatt.

Dr. Bhatt’s research interests include preventive cardiology, as well as the optimal management of patients with heart attacks. He also has research interests in advanced techniques in cardiac, cerebral, and peripheral intervention. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals.  He has been listed in Best Doctors in America for the past several years.

“Dr. Bhatt is an outstanding interventional cardiologist and dedicated researcher.  We are very pleased to have him join the cardiovascular team at BWH. His leadership and talent will complement the existing strengths of our Cardiovascular Division,” said Peter Libby, MD, chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at BWH.

Brigham and Women's Hospital is a 747-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare, an integrated health care delivery network. BWH is committed to excellence in patient care with expertise in virtually every specialty of medicine and surgery.  BWH is an international leader in basic, clinical and translational research on human diseases, involving more than 860 physician-investigators and renowned biomedical scientists and faculty supported by more than $416 M in funding. BWH is also home to major landmark epidemiologic population studies, including the Nurses' and Physicians' Health Studies and the Women's Health Initiative.