Consultant cardiologist Dr Richard Ishmael is the new chair of the Barbados Accreditation Council.
Dr Ishmael, who is a director of Cardiovascular Diagnostics Inc. and Interventional Radiology and Cardiology Inc. at Bracebridge Medical Centre, brings several decades of leadership and corporate governance experience as he takes up his new position.
In 1993, he pioneered the development of the Cardiac Catheterisation and Open Heart Surgical Programmes at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and served as the first head of the Department of Cardiovascular Services as well as director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory. He is Immediate Past President of The Caribbean Cardiac Society and was also Governor of the Caribbean Chapter of The American College of Cardiology.
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