Alex Vidal, MD Named Chief of Cardiology at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, NY

QUEENS, N.Y. - March 18, 2015 - PRLog -- St. John’s Episcopal Hospital has announced the appointment of Alex Vidal, MD, as chief of the hospital’s Division of Cardiology. Dr. Vidal, a specialist in cardiology, electrophysiology and echocardiography, most recently served as director of the Arrhythmia Center at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

Dr. Vidal is a graduate of the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine in his native Puerto Rico. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, followed by a year of NIH-funded research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis. Dr. Vidal also completed two fellowships – the first in cardiovascular disease at UTHSC and the second in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis.

“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Vidal to St. John’s and look forward to partnering with him to enhance our cardiovascular services,” said Richard L. Brown, the hospital’s chief executive officer. “Dr. Vidal will build upon St. John’s commitment to providing high-quality care for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease for our community.”

Dr. Vidal is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, cardiac electrophysiology and adult echocardiography.

About St. John’s Episcopal Hospital

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, the cornerstone of Episcopal Health Services, is the only full-service acute care hospital in The Rockaways. Celebrating 110 years of community care in 2015, the 240-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay. Key programs serving the Rockaways, southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County include an Emergency Department with 45,000 patient visits annually, a growing minimally invasive surgery program, obstetrics and gynecology, imaging, behavioral health, pediatrics, wound care and dialysis.

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission and is a teaching affiliate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. The hospital is also a New York State Designated Stroke Center, a recipient of the Gold-Plus Get with the Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association, and is a certified emergency heart care station. St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is also designated as a 911/Level II trauma receiving hospital by the New York City Department of Health.