Heart specialist joins girls’s well being and health collaborative

The Girls’s Well being and health Entry Issues Collaborative introduced the appointment of seven new members, akin to a heart specialist.

The Girls’s Wellness Accessibility Points (WHAM) Collaborative claimed in a press launch {that a} single of its new clients is Cardiology Now Editorial Board Member Annabelle Santos Volgman, MD, FACC, FAHA, the Carl E. Eybel, MD Chair of Excellence in Scientific Cardiology and the vice chief for academic affairs within the division of cardiology at Rush Faculty Well being-related Coronary heart as properly because the co-founder and medical director of the Hurry Coronary coronary heart Heart for Girls of all ages.

Annabelle Santos Volgman

Volgman, an electrophysiologist who’s an skilled on atrial fibrillation, has printed many examine on the menace for coronary coronary heart sickness and stroke in girls of all ages.

“Once I began off my residency in 1984, cardiovascular illness was the No. 1 killer of American girls of all ages. It’s nonetheless the No. 1 killer of American females proper now,” Volgman said within the launch. “There was big progress in girls’s coronary coronary heart well being concerning the class of my career that I’m proud to have been a factor of, however there’s nonetheless so significantly much more work to be carried out to help gals on account of prevention and process of cardiovascular situation. Research centered on girls of all ages is certainly important, and I’m glad to be turning into a member of the WHAM Collaborative to extra this essential work.”

The customers of the WHAM Collaborative operate alongside each other to acknowledge areas needing investigation in girls’s wellness, collaborate on this type of evaluation and lift recognition of the worth of girls’s total well being investigation, in response to the launch.