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Let's "Go Red" for Women's Heart Health!

Written By: Adam Pick, Patient Advocate, Author & Website Founder
Published: February 7, 2025

Today, Friday, February 7, you are invited to join our community which is in full support of the "Go Red for Women" campaign. This wonderful initiative was created to raise awareness to women's heart disease and unite communities that are fighting for the eradication of heart disease and stroke. As you can see below, heart valve experts from all over the United States are showing their support to fight cardiac disease which accounts for 1 in 3 female deaths every year.

That is Dr. Vaughn Starnes, my surgeon and the Surgeon-in-Chief of Keck Medicine of USC, and Dr. Craig Baker, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Keck Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Vaughn Starnes and Dr. Craig Baker Go Red for Women

In this special video, Dr. Joanna Chikwe answers 7 patient questions about heart valve surgery from a woman's perspective.

Here we have Dr. Patrick McCarthy, Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Yes! That is Dr. Eric Roselli, Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

Here we have Dr. Marc Gerdisch, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Franciscan Health in Indianapolis, Indiana.

That is Dr. Tom Nguyen, Director of Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery and Chief Medical Executive of Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.

This is Dr. Ibrahim Sultan, Chief of Cardiac Surgery from UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

There is Dr. Bill Brinkman, a leading cardiac surgeon from Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano in Plano, Texas.

Here we have Dr. Chris Burke, a leading heart valve specialist from the UW Medicine Heart Institute in Seattle, Washington.

Christopher Burke, MD - Go Red for Women

That is Dr. Marko Boskovski, a heart valve expert from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in San Francisco, California.

And here is Dr. Chris Malaisrie, a leading heart valve surgeon from the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

To help educate you further about women's heart health and the "Go Red for Women" initiative, here is some great information:

Keep on tickin!
Adam

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Written by Adam Pick - Patient & Website Founder

Adam Pick is a heart valve patient and author of The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. In 2006, Adam founded HeartValveSurgery.com to educate and empower patients. This award-winning website has helped over 10 million people fight heart valve disease. Adam has been featured by the American Heart Association and Medical News Today.

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