Mount Sinai renames leading heart hospital after cardiologist Valentin Fuster

One of the world’s leading heart hospitals is getting a new name.

Mount Sinai Health System announced that its top-ranked heart hospital, Mount Sinai Heart, has been renamed as a tribute to Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, one of the world’s most prominent cardiologists. The hospital is now officially known as Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital.

Fuster currently serves as the hospital’s president and physician-in-chief. He was its director until 2022. In addition to his roles at Mount Sinai, Fuster is also the general director of the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He has also received countless awards over the course of his long career. Most recently, he received the Gold Medal for Scientific Merit in his hometown of Barcelona, Spain.

“I am grateful for this honor, and proud of my life’s work at Mount Sinai,” Fuster said in a statement. “I can think of nothing more fulfilling than contributing to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the No. 1 killer worldwide. Our faculty has made great strides in these efforts, but we have more work to do to address the challenge of creating a global ‘culture of health’ that ends deadly cardiovascular disease.”