It was great to see UCSF Health faculty at the retreat on Wednesday, October 19th. Thanks to everyone who came and participated. There were many valuable take-aways from the meeting including requests for more in-person events. 🎉🕺

Cannabis, meth & cocaine are linked to heart-rhythm disorder #AtrialFibrillation , a UCSF study of 23+ million people found. It's 'the first study to look at marijuana use as a predictor of future atrial fibrillation risk,” UCSF's Dr. Greg Marcus says. ucsfh.org/3yTTLFs

So grateful to be here at NYU with Lorraine Carroll UCSF HVC executive director at NYU critical critical care cardiology symposium sharing our UCSF experience #critcarecards22 UCSF Cardiology UCSF Critical Care Medicine UCSF Heart & Vascular Care

Congratulations to American Heart Association volunteer President Michelle Albert on being named to Forbes' 50 Over 50. Her resilience and commitment to ALL people is making a lasting impact on today’s and tomorrow’s generations spr.ly/6014M9QLg Association of Black Cardiologists UCSF School of Medicine UCSF NURTURE

Thanks to our great team UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery and Terumo Aortic for the first successful commercial implant of the #thoraflex hybrid arch device in Northern California!
Tom C. Nguyen, MD UCSF Heart & Vascular Care UCSF Surgery Julie A Sosa, MD

Congrats to Dr. Warren Gasper and team at San Francisco VA for enrolling the 2,144th CREST-2 participant! #CarotidStenosis #Stroke #Research

What a month!! 9🫀+ 1🫀🫁, with 🫀 coming away from FL, AK, via TransMedics or closer via Paragonix Technologies Abbott Cardiovascular HM2 explant after 6 yrs for recovery!
3rd Aortix Procyrion implant for cardiorenal syndrome, the 400th Cordella Endotronix implant

Congratulations to Sammy Elmariah MD MPH, new chief of interventional cardiology for our Heart and Vascular Center (@HeartUCSF)! “Both his clinical expertise & research leadership will be invaluable to our patients,' UCSF Cardiology's Dr. Jeffrey Olgin says. ucsfh.org/3E31VP3

‼️our team broke an institutional record with the successful completion of 10 heart 🫀 transplants this month💪‼️. Proud to be part of such an amazing institution and team cc: UCSF Surgery UCSF Cardiology UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery Tom C. Nguyen, MD Liviu Klein Jason W. Smith, MD. FACS.

Expanding donor pool and organ utilization with OCS 'heart in a box'. Traditional heart ischemic times are ~4h. This heart came from across the country w 10hrs outside body. Fantastic job by Amy Fiedler, MD, Jason W. Smith, MD. FACS., Liviu Klein and HF team. UCSF did 3 OCS and 10txp this mo.

It's official. I edited my profile to SECOND time dad. It's magic and love all over again.Our hearts have doubled in size and we're full. So special when our first daughter got to see baby sister. Thanks Gina, UCSF Benioff SF, all nurses, Dr. Farooqi, Lee, Pedrum and many others.

Register for the final interactive virtual roundtable to learn how to implement the Global Vascular Guidelines on the Management of Patients with CLTI into your practice. The event will take place on Oct. 10 and will discuss revascularization. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🎊MORE TOP Principal Investigators!!
HUGE congrats to Ahmad Masri and Dr. Ted Abraham on being named TOP PIs of 2022 by the HFC and HFSA!

UCSF Cardiology OHSU Knight Cardio OHSU Cardiology Fellowship

Don't miss the HF Research Update at #HFSA2022 !

Full winner list: hfcollaboratory.com/awards/

⁦UCSF Heart & Vascular Care⁩ Strong showing from UCSF Advanced Heart Failure Team for the 2022 ⁦AHA California⁩ Bay Area Heart Walk with ⁦Jason W. Smith, MD. FACS.⁩, Amanda Browne, NP, MBA And Becky Comfort RN ⁦UCSF Health⁩ #heartwalk

Incredible UCSF Health participation and support at the 2022 AHA California Bay Area Heart Walk today. Our team raised over❗️$20,000❗️ and counting! #heart #heart walk #UCSF