Becker's Healthcare March 18, 2025
After joining Cleveland-based University Hospitals in 2020 as UH Cleveland Medical Center’s director of cardiothoracic transplantation, Yasir Abu-Omar, MD, PhD, in February was appointed chief of cardiac surgery at the system’s Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute.
During his time at UH, Dr. Abu-Omar implemented the health system’s donation after circulatory death heart transplant program and co-developed the system’s extracorporeal CPR program, the first of its kind in Ohio.
He recently spoke to Becker’s about his plans for his new role as the Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute’s cardiac surgery chief.
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