Hartford Healthcare has appointed Dr. Sabet W. Hashim as chairman of cardiac surgery and co-physician-in-chief of the Hartford Healthcare Heart and Vascular Institute, and Hartford Hospital cardiologist Dr. Paul Thompson the institute’s co-physician-in-chief. Dr. Thomas Divinagracia, director of endovascular services at Hartford Hospital, will lead systemwide vascular surgery strategy.
The Heart and Vascular Institute will be under the administrative direction of Mariane Carna, system vice president for cardiovascular services.
For the past decade, Hashim has served as director of cardiac valve surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he performed New England’s first mitral valve repair in 1984.
Thompson is an international expert who has authored more than 200 scientific articles on topics including the effects of exercise training on preventing and treating heart disease.
