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The World Heart Federation represents more than 200 organizations in over 100 countries. [1] It works to promote cardiovascular health, and provide information on access to relevant information, care and treatment. The World Heart Federation is the only cardiovascular disease (CVD) organization in official relations with the World Health ...
Prabhakaran has also been elected President-Elect of the World Heart Federation (WHF) Board 2025-2026. [8] He is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
In May 2019, Fausto Pinto was ordained Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina of Brazil, one of the oldest in the world. [ 15 ] Fausto Pinto is the mentor of CODEM-LP (Constituição da Rede de Cooperação das Escolas Médicas de Língua Portuguesa), the solemn session of the signing protocol took place at the Aula Magna, Faculty of ...
Valentín Fuster Carulla, 1st Marquess of Fuster (born January 20, 1943) is a Spanish cardiologist and aristocrat. [5] [2] [3] [4]He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), [6] past President of the American Heart Association, [7] past President of the World Heart Federation, [7] and has been a member of the US National Academy of Medicine [7] and Member ...
The Interamerican Society of Cardiology (SIAC) was founded in Mexico on 18 April 1944, at the initiative of Doctor Ignacio Chávez.That year, the occasion being the inauguration of the National Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City its founder and director, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, invited distinguished cardiologists from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean to the ceremony.
Launched at the World Heart Federation, World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions in Dubai on 18 April 2012. The aim of the charter is to turn the world's attention to atrial fibrillation and AF-related stroke. [citation needed]
The heart is located in the middle of the abdomen with its tip slightly towards the left side of the abdomen. Disorders of the heart lead to heart disease and cardiovascular disease and can lead to a significant number of deaths: cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and caused 24.95% of total deaths in 2008. [19]
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie (DGK; German Cardiac Society in English) is a German medical research organization based in Düsseldorf.It is a member of the European Society of Cardiology, [1] and the World Heart Federation.