Atherotech Diagnostics Lab, a leading clinical reference laboratory specializing in cardiometabolic testing and disease management solutions, announces the addition of Gerard Abate, M.D., as the company’s Chief Clinical Officer.

The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) unveiled its lineup of clinical trials to be presented at its 2013 scientific sessions. The conference, TCT’s 25th, is scheduled to take place Oct. 28-Nov. 1 in San Francisco.

Marc Cribbs, M.D., has joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Cardiovascular Disease as director of the new Alabama Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and Nevada Senator Harry Reid announced a five-year, $20.3 million grant awarded to UNLV from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to lead a health research network of 13 universities across the Mountain West. The University of Nevada School of Medicine will partner on the grant.

Dr. R. Clinton Webb, Chairman of the Department of Physiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, is the 2013 recipient of the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research's Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award.

Faced with a disparate array of information technology (IT) products throughout its 19 facilities located in the state of Virginia, Sentara Healthcare selected Medstreaming Vascular Software Solutions and began an enterprise-wide installation late last year. Post-installation, Sentara officials have reported significant efficiency gains in patient throughput, report standardization, quality and workflow.

Dr. Emerson Perin, director of the Texas Heart Institute (THI) Stem Cell Center and of Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Medicine, has been named a McNair Scholar at THI.

GoDanRiver.com of Danville, Va., reported that a cardiovascular surgeon at Danville Regional Medical Center died in a plane crash Aug. 29.