Press Releases

January 11 2010:
Path To A Cure: AGH Clinicians To Scale Mt. Kilimanjaro In Quest to Raise Global Awareness of Deadly Lung Disease
December 16 2009:
Dr. Srinivas Murali honored by the American Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin for outstanding contributions to the field
November 19 2009:
AGH Study Explores Potential of Novel Stem Cell Therapy For Heart Attack
October 28 2009:
Advances in Heart Care and Healthcare Reform The Focus of AGH Event Featuring U.S. Congressmen
October 19 2009:
Allegheny Singer Research Institute Scientists Awarded NIH Grants as Part of National Recovery Act Fund
October 15 2009:
AGH Speaker Series to Feature Nationally Recognized Political Commentator, Journalist David Gergen
October 13 2009:
WPAHS Physicians Recognized in Consumers’ Checkbook Guide to Top Doctors
September 21 2009:
AGH Performs First Dual Heart-Kidney Transplant
July 22 2009:
USA Today Database of Country’s 'Most Influential Doctors' Recognizes West Penn Allegheny Health System Specialists
June 15 2009:
AGH Joins Select Group of Medical Centers in Study of Promising New Technology for Treatment of Heart Failure
June 02 2009:
AGH Cardiologist Appointed as UNOS Region II Thoracic Board Representative
May 22 2009:
AGH To Host Women’s Health Day
May 14 2009:
West Penn Allegheny Hospitals Receive Second Designation as Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac Care®
May 05 2009:
AGH Researchers Explore Use of Heart Wrap Device To Improve Cardiac Function, Exercise Capacity in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure
April 29 2009:
AGH Walk To Raise Heart Disease Awareness, Funds for Research

AGH Sponsors Healthy Heart Expo
March 04 2009:
West Penn Allegheny Health System Taps Prominent Group of UPMC Critical Care Specialists to Manage New Division of Critical Care Services, Intensivist Program

Gerald McGinnis Cardiovascular Institute Opens New Research Facility at AGH
February 27 2009:
Dr. James Magovern Named Posthumous Recipient of Peter J. Safar Pulse of Pittsburgh Award