- New York, NY
- (October 18, 2022)
Mount Sinai Health System’s globally acclaimed cardiologist Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, has been named President of Mount Sinai Heart, a recently created position, effectual Sunday, January 1, 2023. He volition relinquish the rubric of Director arsenic helium transitions from day-to-day administrative enactment of Mount Sinai Heart into the caller advisory position. Dr. Fuster volition proceed successful his roles arsenic Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital and arsenic the Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor astatine the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai. After dedicating the past 28 years to gathering 1 of the world’s starring cardiovascular centers, Dr. Fuster volition proceed to beforehand the objective care, research, and innovative grooming astatine Mount Sinai Heart.
“Valentin Fuster has been the world’s starring cardiologist for decades, and arsenic hyperbolic arsenic that whitethorn seem, it is the reality. We person been blessed with his presence,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System.
A preeminent person successful cardiovascular medicine, Dr. Fuster was named Director of the Cardiovascular Institute astatine Mount Sinai successful 1994 and became Director of Mount Sinai Heart astatine its constitution successful 2006. He has built Mount Sinai Heart into 1 of the world’s starring centers for cardiovascular care, cardiac surgery, and precocious research. Dr. Fuster is besides General Director of the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
“In my opinion, Valentin Fuster is the top cardiologist successful the world. His accomplishments are legendary successful each domain of cardiology,” said Dennis S. Charney, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System. “He is irreplaceable. Fortunately, he’s not retiring; he’s staying astatine Mount Sinai to counsel and mentor our module and trainees. I’m fortunate to telephone him my friend.”
Dr. Fuster’s unparalleled assemblage of probe has brought caller penetration into the causes, prevention, and attraction of cardiovascular disease. He has worked crossed the globe to trim bosom illness and amended cardiovascular medicine. His probe into the root of cardiovascular events, which has contributed to improved attraction of bosom onslaught patients, received the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, Spain’s highest planetary honor, successful 1996. In 2011, helium was awarded the Grand Prix Scientifique of the Institute of France for his translational probe into atherothrombotic disease, and successful 2020, helium was honored successful Thailand arsenic a Prince Mahidol Award Laureate for his lifelong publication to the tract of medicine. In 2022, the American College of Cardiology instituted the Valentin Fuster Award for Innovation successful Science.
During his singular career, Dr. Fuster has held enactment positions that see President of the American Heart Association; President of the World Heart Federation; subordinate of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, wherever helium chaired the Committee connected Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Co-Chaired the Committee connected Global Health and the Future of the United States; and President of the Training Program of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Fuster completed his aesculapian grade astatine the University of Barcelona and his PhD astatine the University of Edinburgh. He was Professor successful Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases astatine the Mayo Medical School from 1981-1982 and astatine the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1982-1991. At Harvard Medical School, helium was The Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine from 1991 to 1994, portion besides serving arsenic Chief of Cardiology astatine Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Fuster is the lone cardiologist to person received the highest awards for probe from the 4 starring cardiovascular organizations: the American Heart Association (Gold Medal and Research Achievement Award), the American College of Cardiology (Living Legend and Life Achievement Award), the European Society of Cardiology (Gold Medal), and the Inter-American Society of Cardiology (Research Achievement Award). In May 2014, King Juan Carlos I of Spain granted Dr. Fuster the rubric of Marquis for his "outstanding and unceasing probe efforts and his acquisition outreach work."
“Dr. Fuster is simply a luminary successful cardiovascular objective care, education, and research, whose decades of work to Mount Sinai person elevated the full Health System,” said Margaret Pastuszko, MBA, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System.
Mount Sinai Heart is 1 of the nation’s apical 6 hospitals successful Cardiology/Heart Surgery
Mount Sinai Heart is among the apical 6 successful the federation for cardiology and cardiac surgery, according to U.S. News & World Report. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Specialized Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Heart arsenic No. 1 successful New York and No. 4 globally.
It is portion of Mount Sinai Health System, which is New York City's largest world aesculapian system, encompassing 8 hospitals, a starring aesculapian school, and a immense web of ambulatory practices passim the greater New York region. We beforehand medicine and wellness done unrivaled acquisition and translational probe and find to present attraction that is the safest, highest-quality, astir accessible and equitable, and the champion worth of immoderate wellness strategy successful the nation. The Health System includes astir 7,300 superior and specialty attraction physicians; 13 free-standing joint-venture centers; much than 410 ambulatory practices passim the 5 boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island; and much than 30 affiliated assemblage wellness centers. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked successful U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of the apical 20 U.S. hospitals and among the apical successful the federation by specialty: No. 1 successful Geriatrics and apical 20 successful Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Urology, and Rehabilitation.
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About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is 1 of the largest world aesculapian systems successful the New York metro area, with much than 43,000 employees moving crossed 8 hospitals, implicit 400 outpatient practices, astir 300 labs, a schoolhouse of nursing, and a starring schoolhouse of medicine and postgraduate education. Mount Sinai advances wellness for each people, everywhere, by taking connected the astir analyzable wellness attraction challenges of our clip — discovering and applying caller technological learning and knowledge; processing safer, much effectual treatments; educating the adjacent procreation of aesculapian leaders and innovators; and supporting section communities by delivering high-quality attraction to each who request it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers broad wellness attraction solutions from commencement done geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches specified arsenic artificial quality and informatics portion keeping patients’ aesculapian and affectional needs astatine the halfway of each treatment. The Health System includes astir 7,300 superior and specialty attraction physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient country centers passim the 5 boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and much than 30 affiliated assemblage wellness centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving precocious "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 successful Geriatrics and apical 20 successful Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 successful Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s champion successful respective pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai is 1 of 3 aesculapian schools that person earned favoritism by aggregate indicators: It is consistently ranked successful the apical 20 by U.S. News & World Report's "Best Medical Schools," aligned with a U.S. News & World Report "Honor Roll" Hospital, and apical 20 successful the federation for National Institutes of Health backing and apical 5 successful the federation for galore basal and objective probe areas. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital arsenic No. 1 successful New York and successful the apical 5 globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside successful the apical 20 globally.
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