Understanding and Contributing to Healthcare Reform

Charanjit (Chet) Rihal, MD, MBA, and Ray Gibbons, MD, have a conversation about participation in healthcare reform.

Resiliency Training for Physicians: How to Manage Stress and Avoid Burnout

Amit Sood, MD, MSc, and Charanjit (Chet) Rihal, MD, MBA, discuss ways in which medical institutions can address physician stress and burnout.

Social media: Why Cardiologists Need to Get on Board

In a video originally posted on TheHeart.org | Medscape Cardiology, Charanjit (Chet) Rihal, MD, MBA, interviews Farris Timimi, MD, about the importance of engaging in social media in the health care realm as a means of informing, interacting and branding.

Severe Mitral Regurgitation: Early Surgery vs Watchful Waiting

Charanjit (Chet) Rihal, MD, Maurice Sarano, MD, and Rakesh Suri, MD, DPhil, discuss the results of a recently published study demonstrating that early repair for severe asymptomatic mitral regurgitation was associated with better survival.

WARNING! Institution-wide QT Alert System

Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD, reviews the results of an institution-wide QT-alert warning system, the first of its kind.

The Chest-Pain Clinic: Innovating to Improve Care

In a video originally posted on TheHeart.org | Medscape Cardiology, Robert Simari, MD, and Amir Lerman, MD, discuss the challenge of treating complex chest-pain patients and the logic behind the approaches used by the Chest-Pain and Coronary Physiology Clinic.

Repair or Replacement in Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation?

Robert Widmer, MD, PhD, and Rakesh M. Suri, MD, DPhil discuss the practical takeaways from a recent study comparing valve repair with valve replacement in patients with severe ischemic MR.

AAPMR 2011 Meeting- Mary Pyfferoen Discusses Poster

Mary Pyfferoen, P.T., of Mayo Clinic, discussed her AAPMR poster presentation, titled "Inpatient Rehabilitation in Patients Receiving Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy."

RELAXing, regrouping and rethinking PDE-5 inhibition with sildenafil in HF-PEF

Naveen L. Pereira, M.D., interviews Barry A. Borlaug, M.D., and Margaret M. Redfield, M.D., on the background, results and implications of the unequivocal results in the Improve Clinical Status and Exercise Capacity in Diastolic Heart Failure (RELAX) trial.