Jagdeep Singh, MD, is the new Vice President for Medical Affairs (VPMA)/Chief Medical Officer for Piedmont Henry Hospital. Dr. Singh has previous experience as a VPMA in healthcare systems in Minneapolis, Minn. and Buffalo, N.Y.  Prior to becoming a VPMA, Dr. Singh was an emergency physician as well as the EMS Medical Director in Columbus, GA. He holds an MBA in the ... Continue Reading

Cardiac and thoracic surgeons Alexander G. Justicz, MD, and David A. Langford, MD, have joined Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) and will serve as the lead surgeons at the new Strickland Heart Center when GMC starts its open heart surgery program this month. Dr. Langford has been affiliated with the hospital system for nearly two years, serving GMC in an administrative capacity ... Continue Reading

Val Akopov, M.D., has been appointed as vice president and chief of hospitalist services by WellStar Health System. In his new role, Dr. Akopov will oversee 35 hospitalists at WellStar Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone, Paulding and Windy Hill Hospitals. WellStar’s hospitalists play an important role in inpatient care and are typically trained in internal medicine. From admission ... Continue Reading

It is estimated that one in 50 people in the United States will have a brain aneurysm in their lifetime; a condition that can prove fatal if the aneurysm ruptures within the skull. Emory neurosurgeons now have a device to treat patients with aneurysms that were once deemed untreatable. Jacques Dion, MD, director of the division of Interventional Neuroradiology and professor ... Continue Reading