Veronica Pellegrino, RN, wanted to make opening safety-sealed pill packs easier. She applied to the UCLA Health Innovation Challenge, and is now creating a device, Popsy. The challenge is a yearlong accelerator open to our community. Submit until 6/30: ucla.in/4blvl8S

It's about time to stop starving our patients pre cath. If there is an inpatient add on or any outpatient case that's not going in the morning, can we please give them a light breakfast at least? More data to add to what we have👇 jacc.org/doi/full/10.10…

Proud of rising PGY3 star Jenny Yineen Chen for spearheading this work on virtual vs. in-person heart tx selection meetings. Has your program flipped back? Ali Nsair, MD Jeff Hsu, MD, PhD Negeen Shahandeh, MD Rose Shan Department of Medicine at UCLA Health

Cardiology Fellows applying to #AHF #OHT consider applying UCLA Health, great experience in a Large HTx program, complex multi-organ #transplant #ECMO #LVAD in sunny #LosAngeles. DM me for further questions. Currently recruiting 3 Cardiology Fellows for #AHF #OHT 2024-5.

GDMT prescription at discharge for HFrEF patients overall has remained either similar or improved during the pandemic Guideline-directed medical therapy prescribing patterns and in-hospita... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Eric H Yang, MD Pratyaksh Srivastava, MD Rushi Parikh UCLA Cardiology Fellowship #GWTG

The UCLA Biodesign Fellowship is open for applications! Starting Summer 2025, join our team of experienced professionals in medicine, nursing, engineering, design, and business. Apply today! lnkd.in/d4mGvXS8

As part of UCLA Biodesign's annual bootcamp programing, Biodesign Discovery, Accelerator, and AI fellows attended Octane OC #ApexofInnovationConference this past week to connect with visionaries, trailblazers, and industry professionals in the medtech technology space #octaneOC

UCLA Biodesign 2024-2025 goes to Edwards Lifesciences! Thank you to @FAzimpour, Tony Vrba, and Amanda Fowler for having our Biodesign Fellows tour the Edwards Lifesciences corporate headquarters in Irvine during Biodesign bootcamp last week! #uclabiodesign #mywhywithEdwards

National Costs for Cardiovascular-related Hospitalizations and Inpatient Procedures in the United States, 2016-2021 @amjcardio Amier Haidar, MD, MPH Gregg Fonarow MD Karol Watson Department of Medicine at UCLA Health Rushi Parikh UCLA CORE Lab

WELCOME to our UCLA Cardiology Fellowship Class of 2028!! An incredible crew and grateful to our incredible team Karol Watson JK Han MD @justinhayase #asimrafique & faculty/fellows for their recruitment efforts! We are so thrilled that you are joining the #bruinhearts family! UCLA Health

We at UCLA are looking forward to contributing to this important and timely study! Many thanks to samitshahmd for spearheading this effort. Department of Medicine at UCLA Health UCLA Cardiology Fellowship

Proud of mentees David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA MS3 (!) Chris Carvalho & StanfordMedRes R1 Juka Kim, MD for presenting this work on post-HT CAV at @ ACC25. Thanks to collaborators Kiran Khush William Fearon Ali Nsair, MD Negeen Shahandeh, MD Gregg Fonarow MD

Had an amazing time at #ACC25 presenting our work on CAV in peripartum cardiomyopathy HT recipients under the mentorship of Rushi Parikh and hanging out with my David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and StanfordMedRes family! Ronald Witteles Negeen Shahandeh, MD Chris Carvalho

Very proud of you, Juka Kim, MD! Congratulations and this is just the beginning! David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Negeen Shahandeh, MD Ronald Witteles Kiran Khush

Excited to announce our collaboration with the American College of Cardiology to expand the BIDMC CVI BIDMC Smith Center Renal Denervation Registry as part of the NCDR CathPCI module. acc.org/Latest-in-Card… The Smith Center RDN Registry is a nationwide multicenter registry collecting early procedural

Excited to see this work on ET-1 in CAV from my AHA Career Development Award published! Indebted to mentors William Fearon Kiran Khush Gregg Fonarow MD and collaborators—truly a team effort. More to come!