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Champion Spotlight: Q&A with Dawn Manogue
We met with WomenHeart Champion, Dawn Manogue and her 17-year-old daughter Lily at the Burlington Stores heart screening in Hartford, Connecticut to discuss how advocacy has shaped this mother-daughter relationship. One of the pair’s earliest campaigns was...
A Note from Mary – March 2018
As I participated in a roundtable discussion on Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) at the American College of Cardiology conference in Orlando two weeks ago, I thought to myself how extraordinary it is that we still know so little about the condition, particularly in...
Minority Health Month: A Time to Fight for Every Heart
Originally published by Outcome Health, April 18, 2018 If you knew that your biggest health threat was 80 percent preventable, what would you do to stop it? Would you fight? In recognition of Minority Health Month in April, WomenHeart: The National Coalition for...
Champion Spotlight: Marcia Egeland
You know all those headlines that read, “How could a healthy, 40-something have a heart attack?” What they don’t seem to understand, is that heart disease does not discriminate. People of all ages, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds get heart disease. Nearly 1 in...
WomenHeart Wraps up Heart Month with Congressional Briefing
Contact: Racine Tucker-Hamilton (202) 464 8731 rtuckerhamilton@womenheart.org Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2018 – WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, today urged members of Congress to continue to support legislation that makes routine...
Champion Spotlight: Pamela Thomas
The perfect blend of fierce and fearless, 47-year old Pamela Thomas knows the importance of support to help women with heart disease thrive. A woman of strength, Pamela’s a proud heart survivor, advocate, and creator of the Facebook Blog Project Heart Talk, which...
Champion Spotlight: Georgia Leventis-Molina
At 26 years old, Georgia Leventis-Molina was settling into life as a newlywed, focusing her time on her son, Zariah (now official by marriage), school, and her job in the hospitality business. But when she injured her back at work, she found herself caught in a...
WomenHeart Convenes Experts to Address Critical Issues
A central element of WomenHeart's mission is to help develop recommendations, solutions and action steps on critical issues that affect women living with heart disease. We have recently unveiled the Key Opinion Leaders or KOL workshops, a new process to insuring that...
View from the Top: the CEO’s Vision for WomenHeart
Welcome to the WomenHeart Blog! As this is our first blog post, I thought it was fitting to share my ideas of where I want to lead this organization, now and in the future. As the CEO of WomenHeart, I am proud to lead the nation’s premier organization dedicated to...