CV Faculty in the News

CV News Coverage, 2013-2014

Cardiovascular Medicine faculty are regularly featured in a variety of media, including television, radio, podcasts, and the Web. They bring UVA expertise in heart care to the general public and are highly visible ambassadors for the UVA Health System. Below is a sampling of radio and television appearances during the period July 2013 to June 2014. Thanks go to the staff of UVA Health System Marketing and Communication (in particular Meghan Bradley) for bringing the expertise of Cardiovascular faculty members to the Charlottesville and wider community on a regular basis.

Television

NBC29 – “House Call”:

• Lawrence Gimple, Chest Pain
• Max Luna, Risk Tools
• Brandy Patterson, Heart Health
• Aditya Sharma, Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD)

NBC29:

• Scott Lim, “UVA Offering New Heart Valve Repair Procedure” (11/22/13)

Newsplex:

• Michael Salerno, CMR Imaging (8/14/13)

Radio

WINA – “Live Well” series:

• Brian Annex, Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) (7/15/13)
• Angela Taylor, Calcium Supplements (8/19/13)
• Pamela Mason, Sudden Cardiac Arrest (10/7/13)
• Robert Battle, Congenital Heart Screening (2/10/14)
• Kenneth Bilchick, Research on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) (6/16/14)
• Pamela Mason, Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) (2/24/14)

RadioMD Podcasts:

• Scott Lim, Valve
• Jamie Kennedy, Heart failure
• John Ferguson, Ablation Therapy
• James Bergin, Advanced Heart Failure Treatments

WCVE Richmond Public Radio:

• Scott Lim, “UVa. Repairs Leaking Heart Valve Without Open Heart Surgery” (11/14/13)

Virginia Public Radio, “With Good Reason”:

• Michael Ragosta, “New Treatments for Lymphoma and Heart Disease” (6/7/14)

Print or On-line Publications

Daily Progress:

• “Vital Signs”: Ivan Crosby, Vascular Screenings (8/18/13)
• Scott Lim, “UVa among handful of hospitals that offer experimental heart treatment” (12/15/13)
• Mike Mangrum, “Vital Signs: This abnormal heart rhythm is called Holiday Heart Syndrome for good reason” (12/8/13)
• Daily Progress, “Vital Signs”: Lawrence Gimple, Chest Pain (6/22/14)

UVA news release:

• Christopher Kramer, UVA Receives $14.4 Million Federal Grant to Battle Deadly Heart Condition (8/27/13)
• Zhen Yan and Vitor Lira, New Benefit of Exercise Discovered (9/24/13)
• Zhen Yan, PhD, Exercise During Pregnancy Boosts Baby Health (1/20/14)
• UVA news release: “Heart failure research offers answers to whom treatment will benefit and why” (4/29/14)

Vim and Vigor Magazine: Michael Mangrum, “Ablation Therapy” (Fall 2013)

VITALS; UVA School of Medicine Alumni Magazine: Scott Lim, MitraClip and other advances in valve disease treatment (Spring 2014)