Brigham hires interventional cardiology director from Cleveland Clinic

A prominent cardiologist is leaving the Cleveland Clinic to join Brigham and Women's Hospital and the VA Boston Healthcare System.

Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt (left), who had been associate director of the cardiovascular coordinating center at the Cleveland Clinic, will become director of the interventional cardiovascular program at the Brigham and chief of cardiology at VA Boston Healthcare. He will also become a senior investigator at the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Study Group at the Brigham. He was an undergraduate at MIT, earned his medical degree at Cornell, and is working on a master's degree at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Bhatt is the fifth cardiologist to leave the Cleveland Clinic over the last several months, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Brigham saw its own flurry of departures last year, some to competitors of the Cleveland Clinic, as this White Coat Notes story details.

“I had a wonderful time at the Cleveland Clinic, a fantastic place from which I would have been happy to retire," Bhatt said in a statement from the Brigham announcing his hiring. He called the opportunity at the Brigham and the VA Boston "too great an opportunity to pass up."