Advances and Achievements

Bruce T. Liang, M.D., F.A.C.C.

• Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, 1993-1998
• Elected and inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2000
• Elected and inducted into the Association of University Cardiologists, 2005
• Named an America’s Top Doctor by Castle Connolly in Cardiovascular Disease since 2006
• Lifetime Member of Global Who's Who, 2007
• National Steering Committee of LEADERS in Clinical Weight Management, 2008
• Development of a New Method to Detect Heart Failure via a Simple Blood Test, 2008
• Elected as a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2009

James O. Menzoian, M.D.

• Top Docs, Hartford Magazine, September 2008

Jason Ryan, M.D., M.P.H.

• Recently presented research about how drug eluting stents (DES) have affected clinical outcomes and health care costs. According to the research, clinical outcomes have improved and health care costs have decreased by an average of $1,600 per patient since the introduction of DES. The study used data from the Medicare Standard Analytic File between 2001 and 2004. Dr. Ryan presented the study at a recent Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting; his data was published in the TCT Post Issue report. See article (PDF) >

Peter Schulman, M.D.

• Top Docs, Hartford Magazine, September 2008
• Hartford Magazine Top Doctor Recognition for the 4th consecutive year
• Consultant (unpaid) for ABC News National News Medical Website

Kanwar Singh, M.D., F.A.C.C.

• Recently became the only vascular expert in Connecticut to be named to the Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD) Society's network of providers. This recognition goes to physicians who have demonstrated expertise in the care of patients with FMD, a condition that causes a decrease in blood flow to renal arteries, the carotid artery and less commonly, arteries in the abdomen.

William White, M.D.

• When and How to Use Self (Home) and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
  Thomas G. Pickering, William B. White, American Society of Hypertension Writing Group
  Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, May 2008 (Vol. 2, Issue 3, Pages 119-124)
• Drs. White and Petry were recently awarded a new National Institutes of Health grant titled ”Contingency Management for Initiating Smoking Abstinence,” which studies a new way to stop smoking
• Elected president of the American Society of Hypertension, term running from 2012 through 2014