VCU Health Pauley Heart Center

VCU Health Pauley Heart Center The top-ranked heart hospital in Virginia. View our social media guidelines: https://www.vcuhealth.org/patients-and-visitors/social-media-guidelines

Today, VCU Health and Pauley Heart leadership celebrated the opening of the Reynolds Crossing clinic! The best cardiovas...
08/28/2025

Today, VCU Health and Pauley Heart leadership celebrated the opening of the Reynolds Crossing clinic! The best cardiovascular care in Virginia is now available in the West End. For the first time, VCU Health’s outpatient cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation services are available beyond the VCU Medical Center. Thank you to all guests, staff and partners who made this exciting milestone possible.

For the fourth year in a row, the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center has been named the top heart hospital in Virginia by U....
08/07/2025

For the fourth year in a row, the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center has been named the top heart hospital in Virginia by U.S. News and World Report! 🏆 Read more here: https://bit.ly/47hhz80

These three awesome physicians—L to R: Sangeeta Shah, MD; Saima Shikari, DO; and Ronald Ramus, MD—are part of Pauley's c...
06/23/2025

These three awesome physicians—L to R: Sangeeta Shah, MD; Saima Shikari, DO; and Ronald Ramus, MD—are part of Pauley's cardio-OB team, which provides expert care for women experiencing pregnancy-related cardiovascular disease, both during pregnancy and after childbirth. They recently shared what expecting moms need to know about preeclampsia, a common and serious complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure and high levels of protein in the urine. Read more here: https://bit.ly/43RrFu1

Bruce Oliver Tucker, an African American man who grew up in nearby Dinwiddie County, died on May 25, 1968. Without the c...
06/18/2025

Bruce Oliver Tucker, an African American man who grew up in nearby Dinwiddie County, died on May 25, 1968. Without the consent or knowledge of Tucker’s family, surgeons at the Medical College of Virginia removed his heart and kidneys and placed his heart into a white man – the first human cardiac transplant in the South and in Virginia, and the 16th in the world. For the past two years, leaders from VCU Health, representatives from Tucker’s family, and community leaders have worked together to identify ways to honor Tucker and raise awareness about his story and his impact at VCU Medical Center and the transplantation community.

On March 5, VCU Health unveiled a mural (designed by VCUarts mOb (Middle of Broad) Studio and painted by Richmond artist Hamilton Glass) located in the McGlothlin Medical Education Center within the VCU School of Medicine on the MCV Campus, and also renamed the adjacent auditorium, both in honor of Tucker.

On May 30, a new Virginia historical highway marker honoring Tucker was unveiled during a private ceremony. Approved by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the highway marker is in Tucker’s hometown of Stony Creek (Dinwiddie County) and in close proximity to his family church, Little Bethel Baptist Church. It outlines the events that occurred in May 1968 and acknowledges Tucker’s role in the broader conversation about medical ethics and patient rights.

To read more about both events, visit https://bit.ly/4mM2Gjh.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, isn't a form of heart disease, but it IS a major risk factor for heart disease—and...
06/16/2025

High blood pressure, or hypertension, isn't a form of heart disease, but it IS a major risk factor for heart disease—and the most common. Here are a few important things to know about hypertension:

💛 Healthy blood pressure is anything under 120/80 mm Hg. Just remember: 120 is plenty and 80 is great-y.
❤️ 1 out of every 2 Americans is living with high blood pressure. Of those, 1 in 3 are not aware that they have it.
💛 Losing just one pound (!) can reduce your blood pressure by two to three mm Hg.
❤️ If your blood pressure is over 180/120, you should call 911 immediately.

The very best thing you can do for your heart health and personal health is to "know your numbers." While there is no one-size-fits-all recommendation for how often to check your blood pressure, everyone can benefit from owning—and regularly using!— an at-home blood pressure monitor. There are many options on the market for home blood pressure monitors, across a wide range of prices.

Click here: https://bit.ly/3HHjCrn to read an informative Q&A with Pauley cardiologist Michael Lenhart, MD, about how to prevent or manage hypertension.

06/04/2025

Here's everything you need to know to perform hands-only CPR—spend just two minutes today to be ready to save a life tomorrow.

Many people use the terms "cardiac arrest" and "heart attack" interchangeably, but they are not the same.

💛 In cardiac arrest, the heart suddenly stops beating, usually due to a malfunction in the heart's electrical system. Cardiac arrest occurs suddenly, often without warning, and is fatal in 90% of cases—unless CPR is performed.

💛 Heart attacks, on the other hand, are caused by blocked blood flow in the arteries and blood vessels that feed the heart muscle, rather than an issue within the heart itself. Heart attack symptoms can be sudden or come on slowly, over hours or even days, but during most heart attacks, the heart usually keeps beating. The longer it takes to get help, the greater the risk to the heart, because the heart tissue that isn't receiving blood flow (and oxygen and nutrients) begins to die.

Visit https://bit.ly/4knzOMP watch this full episode of Pauley's Heart to Heart podcast, and learn more about the difference between cardiac arrest and heart attack, how to use an AED, and more.

06/02/2025

June 1-7 is National CPR & AED Awareness Week! There's no better day than today to learn how to perform hands-only CPR—let Pauley's resident CPR expert Michelle Gossip, RN, teach you how on the latest episode of our Heart to Heart podcast, available here: https://bit.ly/4knzOMP

Preeclampsia — high blood pressure during pregnancy — occurs in about 8% of all pregnancies in the U.S. It's so common, ...
05/31/2025

Preeclampsia — high blood pressure during pregnancy — occurs in about 8% of all pregnancies in the U.S. It's so common, in fact, that routine prenatal care as we know it today first evolved in the mid-nineteenth century in order to monitor women with the condition. If you've ever been diagnosed with preeclampsia, it's important to be aware that you are at higher risk for various forms of heart disease later in life. Read everything you need to know about preeclampsia here: https://bit.ly/43RrFu1

Happy Friday from our 2025 undergraduate research fellows & mentors! Our 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SUR...
05/30/2025

Happy Friday from our 2025 undergraduate research fellows & mentors! Our 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) arrived on the MCV campus in Richmond last week — thanks to all who came out for our annual SURF welcome BBQ, including Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby and Delegate Betsy Carr. We're excited to witness all that our fellows do and discover at Pauley this summer! Learn more about Pauley's SURF program here: https://pauleyundergradfellowship.vcu.edu/

Let's David Starling, AGACNP, a nurse practitioner on our cardiothoracic surgery ICU! At Pauley, David "works with alm...
05/28/2025

Let's David Starling, AGACNP, a nurse practitioner on our cardiothoracic surgery ICU! At Pauley, David "works with almost all the post operative cardiac surgery patients, so I see anyone with a new valve, new bypass grafts, and even new hearts," he explains. "My typical day involves seeing patients, rounding as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the ICU, and in the afternoons, taking in new patients from the operating room."

💛 One fact about David that may surprise you: "I bike to work most days. The only time I don’t is when there is actual snow on the ground – then I hike my way in."

❤️ He can't believe more people haven't read: The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey or The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson.

💛 Living person he most admires: "This may be cliché, but my wife, Megan. She’s so compassionate, smart, and caring, and seems to make everyone around her a better person."

❤️ David's useless talent: "I'm pretty well versed in Dad jokes."

Nominations for the 2026 Dr. Carolyn McCue Award for Woman Cardiologist of the Year are now open and can be submitted un...
05/21/2025

Nominations for the 2026 Dr. Carolyn McCue Award for Woman Cardiologist of the Year are now open and can be submitted until this Friday, May 23 here: https://bit.ly/3zSySKJ. Do you know of a female cardiologist who is amazing? Nominate her today!

The McCue Award is made possible by a grant from the McCue family; the award honors the late Carolyn Moore McCue, MD (seen here) who was a national pioneer in pediatric cardiology.

The McCue Award and its monetary prize of $7500 will be presented at our annual Heart Health in Women Symposium in Richmond in February 2026. The awardee will also be asked to serve as the keynote speaker at the Symposium.

Questions? Email Shannon.Winston@vcuhealth.org.

Big Pauley Heart appreciation for everyone who came out last Wednesday night to celebrate Pauley's past, present, and fu...
05/15/2025

Big Pauley Heart appreciation for everyone who came out last Wednesday night to celebrate Pauley's past, present, and future at our annual Consortium Dinner. Founded in 2008 by a group of dedicated volunteers and faculty members, the Pauley Consortium is a society of patients, friends, and advocates who are interested in learning about and supporting the latest innovations in cardiovascular clinical care, research, and education happening at VCU Health and the VCU School of Medicine. Through generous donations of their time, talents, funds, and friendship, our Consortium members make possible everything we do at Pauley! Click here to learn more about how you can get involved in the Pauley Consortium: https://bit.ly/3wv9AnX

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VCU Health Pauley Heart Center

At VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, we focus on saving and improving the lives of people with heart disease. Our headquarters are in downtown Richmond, Virginia, and we have outpatient centers throughout central and southeast Virginia.

Our services include inpatient and outpatient care ranging from noninvasive cardiology to heart transplantation. We are a national leader in device-based treatments for advanced heart failure. Several high-tech laboratories allow us to deliver enhanced diagnoses, planning and treatment.

Patients have access to interdisciplinary teams including cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeons as well as interventional cardiologists and cardiac imaging specialists.

Our work includes training cardiologists to serve as leaders in medicine. We are also leaders in research, with an active cardiovascular disease research program that furthers knowledge of heart disease, its treatments and its cures.