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<p>[James</a> Liao appointed chief of cardiology at the University of Chicago Medicine | UChicago News](<a href=“http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/08/21/james-liao-appointed-chief-cardiology-university-chicago-medicine]James”>James Liao appointed chief of cardiology at the University of Chicago Medicine)</p>
<p>James Liao appointed chief of cardiology at the University of Chicago Medicine
By John Easton
August 21, 2012</p>
<p>James K. Liao, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of vascular medicine research at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been appointed section chief of cardiology at the University of Chicago Medicine, effective Aug. 21.</p>
<p>Liao, 52, a former member of the vascular center and the vascular medicine clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is an internationally recognized authority on blood vessel biology and arterial disease.</p>