Administrators and health care leaders break ground for a 350,000-square-foot Cardiovascular Center (CVC) to be built on the former site of the “Old Main” hospital. The first of its kind in the country, this new clinical heart and vascular care facility, set to open for patient use in 2007, will bring together operating rooms, patient rooms, clinics, classrooms and laboratories. In the past five years, demand for cardiovascular services has risen 30 percent. From left: Dr. David Pinsky, scientific director of CVC; Dr. Allen Lichter, dean of the Medical School; Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, scientific director, Clinical Research Program, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (and former chief of the U-M Division of Cardiology); CVC co-director Dr. James Stanley, vascular surgery director; CVC co-director Dr. Kim Eagle, clinical director; Larry Warren, executive director of the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC); Linda Larin, administrative director; Timothy Slottow, executive vice president and chief financial officer; President Mary Sue Coleman; Stephanie Diccion, director of nursing and Patient Care Services, Internal Medicine and CVC; Dr. Lazar Greenfield, interim executive vice president for medical affairs (EVPMA); Dr. Robert Kelch, incoming EVPMA; and T. Anthony Denton, associate director for operations at UMHHC. (Photo by Paul Jaronski, U-M Photo Services)
