John Byrne

March 7, 2013

Photo: Fond farewell

On Tuesday, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute employees gathered to bid farewell to John Byrne, M.D., William S. Stoney Jr. Professor of Cardiac Surgery and chair of the department.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 8, 2012

Byrne to take post at Brigham and Women’s

John G. Byrne, M.D., William S. Stoney Jr. Professor of Cardiac Surgery and chair of the department, is stepping down from his position to become the chief of Cardiac Surgery and the vice president of Surgical Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He becomes the Lawrence H. Cohn Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, effective April 1, 2013.

By Kathy Whitney
August 16, 2012

Town hall meeting outlines Heart Institute’s busy year

The Department of Cardiac Surgery experienced its highest case volume to date with 1,245 adult cardiac surgeries at Vanderbilt University Hospital during the last fiscal year, according to department chair John Byrne, M.D., who spoke at Vanderbilt Heart’s quarterly town hall on Friday.

By Kathy Whitney
August 9, 2012

Time was critical for new mother’s heart surgery

Two weeks after giving birth to her second child on July 10, 31-year-old Samantha Neal began to experience chest pain. Initially diagnosed with a gall bladder issue in her local ER, her true diagnosis would prove much more serious and potentially life-threatening.

By Kathy Whitney
August 2, 2012

VHVI reaches milestone in heart valve procedures

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute recently performed its 100th transcatheter aortic heart valve-replacement (TAVR) on 91-year-old Murline Westover from Lavinia, Tenn.

By Kathy Whitney
Heart illustration
April 18, 2011

Vanderbilt Heart to participate in CoreValve clinical trial

Vanderbilt Heart will soon begin testing the safety of a novel, non-surgical approach to treating aortic stenosis, a common heart problem caused by an abnormal narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve.

By Kathy Whitney