The awards are named Nanette Wenger Kass, MD, a pioneer in cardiovascular medicine and research women. Wenger Price is the only national ...
The awards are named Nanette Wenger Kass, MD, a pioneer in cardiovascular medicine and research women. Wenger Price is the only national recognition for those who make heart health extraordinary contributions women. This year's winners are:
Dr. Patricia Scott Schroeder
Dr. Patricia Scott Schroeder, the former US - Representatives from Colorado, was awarded the 2016 Wenger - Award for outstanding achievement in public service for the defense of the heart health of women during his tenure of 24 years in Congress from 1973 to 1997). Schroeder was one of the motors of the publication of the Government Accountability Office in 1990, found that women and female cells and tissues are not uniform in the National Institutes of Health funded research represented medically. In response to the report's findings led Schroder Health equity Women Act, a law more fairness in the provision of health services for women through expanded research on health issues for women and better promote access to health services for women, including preventive health services.
Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD
Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, a common date has been in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of the Department of Cardiology at Emory University and Public Health, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Emory University. Vaccarino get Wenger Price 2016 for outstanding achievement in medical research for his pioneering research on the role of psychological stressors and mental health in the cardiovascular risk in women. Vaccarino led the MIMS (myocardial infarction and mental stress) study of emotional stress and cardiovascular disease in young women. This innovative research demonstrated the vulnerability of youth to the negative effects of stress on the heart of the women, which may cause the early onset of heart disease or most negative health consequences if the disease already exists. The study results contribute significantly to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in younger women to improve. Dr. Vaccarino obliged to educate health professionals about the vulnerability of women to the emotional stress heart health.
Black Girls Run!
The organization Black Girls Run! He received the 2016 Wenger Award for Excellence in Community Service African American to encourage women to make fitness and healthy living a priority and to create a movement to reduce the rate of obesity in women. Through incentives and resources for new and old driver and the fight against the obesity epidemic has that black girls are! It helps to reduce the incidence of heart disease and other chronic diseases in women. What started as an online blog to include a national movement 70 groups across the country are working, more than 120,000 members has become, visited a career and an annual national conference, Clinic Health Associations national races and walk before you run! 5K training.
WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart - Disease is a unique organization in the nation Patient Centered the 43 million American women to serve with or at risk for heart disease live - the leading cause of death in women. Women Heart is exclusively for the promotion of heart health of women through advocacy, community education, and the only support network for patients in the nation for women living with heart disease. WomenHeart is both a coalition and a community of thousands of members across the country, including heart patients of women and their families, health professionals and health advocates to help all dedicated women live longer and healthier lives. To participate or to donate, visit www.womenheart.org.
16h year Wenger is sponsored by Novartis (host of companies); Burlington Stores; Pfizer, Inc. Gilead; Amgen; Merck; State Health Foundation; Abbott Vascular; American Society of Echocardiography; St. Jew Medical Foundation; CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PhRMA; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; and Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman.
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SOURCE WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
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