In December, Pauley patient Mike Shebelskie opened his first-ever one-man art show at the new Visitor Center in Petersburg, Virginia, with all proceeds of the show to benefit the Pauley Heart Center. Over the course of the one-month show, Mike and his paintings raised more than $10,000 for Pauley, and he came by Pauley HQ today to present a "big check" to our director Greg Hundley, MD. Thank you, Mike, for your beautiful art and incredible generosity to Pauley!
01/06/2026
Huge congrats to the 26 Pauley Heart Center providers who were named a 2026 Top Doc by Virginia Business .... including VCU Health's ENTIRE vascular surgery team! Read the full list of the more than 370 recognized VCU docs here: https://bit.ly/4sFRurE
01/05/2026
It's ! Did you know that drinking alcohol can impact your heart health?
"We’ve known for a long time that alcohol can raise blood pressure," says Delia Endicott, a nurse practitioner at the Pauley Heart Center, "but the new guidance from the American Heart Association is even clearer: The healthiest choice for your blood pressure is no alcohol at all. If you do drink, keep it to no more than one drink a day for women and no more than two for men – and less is always better. Research cited in the recommendations strongly indicates that even moderate drinking can nudge your blood pressure up over time. The good news is that your body responds pretty quickly when you cut back."
Read more about how alcohol intake impacts heart health — and simple changes you can make today to curb the former while boosting the latter — here: https://bit.ly/3VSQVLL
12/04/2025
Next Friday, December 12, Visit Petersburg VA will host a grand opening of their new Visitors Center from 5-9 PM in the city's South Side Depot. At the event, local artist and Pauley patient Mike Shebelskie will be holding a gallery show of his paintings, with all proceeds to benefit the Pauley Heart Center! More info is available here: https://bit.ly/49U4ump. Fun fact: a few of Mike's paintings also hang on the walls of Pauley's electrophysiology lab in VCU Health's Gateway building!
11/28/2025
Our Reynolds Crossing Clinic is open, bringing advanced heart and lung testing closer to you! From echo and stress tests to CPET and PFT, get expert care from your same trusted team, now in a more convenient location.
A few photos of Pauley people at — including two of our Summer Undergraduates Research Fellows, Kaia Woodard and Nicolas Morales (seen in the first two photos), who presented the cardiovascular research they conducted this past summer at Pauley! Applications for our 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship open on December 15. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3Rmc7Hp
11/18/2025
After a heart failure diagnosis following cancer treatments, Beth Rutherford says the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center's cardio-oncology team helped her move forward.
Beth Rutherford’s bold and unflinching energy is apparent the moment she walks into a room wearing a bright yellow jacket that reads, “TAKE UP SPACE.”
11/17/2025
November is .
💛 More than 38 million Americans have diabetes.
💛 People living with diabetes are twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease and stroke as people without diabetes.
💛 About 1 in 3 Americans with diabetes also has some form of cardiovascular disease.
The connection between diabetes and heart disease is due in part to the shared risk factors between the two diseases: obesity, physical inactivity, abnormal cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, and more. But the high blood sugar levels associated with diabetes can also damage blood vessels (which can cause atherosclerosis) and stiffen heart muscle (which can lead to heart failure).
We are open in the West End! You can find advanced heart and lung testing, including echo, stress test, CPET, and PFT. Book your appointment today!
Check out our location at Reynolds Crossing. The same trusted team, now in a new, convenient location.
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11/07/2025
VCU Health's outpatient cardiovascular and pulmonary rehab services are now available at a new location outside the VCU Medical Center for the first time ever. Learn more & make an appointment at the new VCU Health Reynolds Crossing clinic here: https://bit.ly/492yOuN
10/24/2025
New research coming out of the Pauley Heart Center shows that statins — a medication commonly used to treat high cholesterol—may provide some protection to breast and lymphoma cancer patients’ cognition during chemotherapy. In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, lead author Pamela Jill Grizzard, MS, assistant director of research compliance and regulatory affairs at Pauley, found that patients who received statins before, during and up to 24 months after cancer treatment saw an improvement in their executive function, or mental skills for planning, focus and self-control.
“Cancer treatment can be debilitating, and cognitive decline arising from chemotherapy treatment can sometimes last long after treatment concludes,” Grizzard said. “My hope is that this research contributes in some small way to any larger efforts to offer therapeutic relief to cancer patients who encounter difficulties with executive function following cancer treatment. If future studies confirm a beneficial effect, statins could become a valuable tool in helping cancer survivors maintain cognitive function and quality of life throughout treatment.”
Coffee lovers, this one’s for you. ☕ Caffeine often gets a bad rap when it comes to heart health, but what’s the real story? If you want to learn more from Dr. Ajay Pillai, just click the link below.
When it comes to discussing heart health, caffeine gets a bad rap. But, when people say, “caffeine is bad for you,” they may not have the full picture.
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At VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, we focus on saving and improving the lives of people with heart disease. Our headquarters are in downtown Richmond, Virginia, and we have outpatient centers throughout central and southeast Virginia.
Our services include inpatient and outpatient care ranging from noninvasive cardiology to heart transplantation. We are a national leader in device-based treatments for advanced heart failure. Several high-tech laboratories allow us to deliver enhanced diagnoses, planning and treatment.
Patients have access to interdisciplinary teams including cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeons as well as interventional cardiologists and cardiac imaging specialists.
Our work includes training cardiologists to serve as leaders in medicine. We are also leaders in research, with an active cardiovascular disease research program that furthers knowledge of heart disease, its treatments and its cures.
VCU Health Pauley Heart Center physicians are known worldwide for their work. Learn more and make an appointment by visiting vcuhealth.org/pauley
