Lowell H. Steen, Jr., MD, Named Chief of Cardiology at Loyola Medicine

Maywood, IL – Loyola Medicine has announced the appointment of cardiologist Lowell H. Steen, Jr., MD, to the role of chief of cardiology. Loyola Medicine includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital. Dr. Steen completed his general and interventional cardiology training at Loyola University Medical Center and has served as an interventional cardiology attending physician at Loyola for over 23 years. Since 2008, he has led the interventional cardiology fellowship as its program director and trained some of the most talented interventional cardiologists in the country. He is a professor of medicine for Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and has been recognized for scholarly activity in his field. “In addition to treating patients in one of Loyola’s largest clinical practices, Dr. Steen’s talent and dedication have resulted in exceptional clinical outcomes for Loyola patients,” said Richard K. Freeman, MD, MBA, FACS, Loyola Medicine’s executive vice president and regional chief clinical officer.

Loyola Medicine’s cardiology and heart surgery program is ranked 39th by U.S. News and World Report placing Loyola in the top 50 programs nationally. Loyola University Medical Center is ranked 4th among all hospitals in Illinois. For more information about Loyola Medicine, visit loyolamedicine.org.

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About Loyola Medicine

Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago’s western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,800 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. & Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois’s largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine  and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with the newly renovated Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, an adult day care program, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services, acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics. Loyola Medical Group, a team of primary and specialty care physicians, offers care at over 15 Chicago-area locations. For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 92 hospitals, as well as 106 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2.5 million visits annually. Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $19.3 billion and assets of $27 billion, the organization returns $1.2 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity Health employs about 119,000 colleagues, including 7,500 employed physicians and clinicians. For more information, visit www.trinity-health.org. For more information, visit trinity-health.org. You can also follow Trinity Health on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.