Next week is full of events to help you learn all about keeping your heart healthy and strong.
Between a free health fair with cardiac health experts giving public lectures, a luncheon with a famous cardiologist and diet book writer author and a medical symposium, everyone with a heart will have plenty of opportunities to find ways of taking better care of it.
Symposium
On Thursday, 15 March, especially for health professionals, the medical symposium with the theme: “How the times are changing – A look into the future of cardiovascular medicine” will be held at St. Matthew’s University.
South Beach Diet author and cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston will address medical students and the medical fraternity on the subject of integrating cardiology imaging and advanced blood testing to prevent cardiac disease. He will also be speaking at Saturday’s Red Dress Learn and Live Luncheon.
Other speakers at the symposium include Dr. Howard Bush of Cleveland Clinic, St. Luke’s Dr. Tracy Stevens, John’s Hopkins Medicine’s Dr. Matthews Chacko, Heart Health Centre Cayman and St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute’s Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod.
Admission to the symposium is free. Registration starts at 5pm and the symposium begins 5.45pm. Pre-registration is required.
Red dress luncheon
Dr. Agatston is the featured speaker this year’s annual Red Dress Live and Learn Red Dress Luncheon, organised by the Cayman Heart Fund.
Dr. Agatston, who as well as being creator of the South Beach Diet is also medical director of wellness and prevention at Baptist Health South Florida, will speak at the luncheon, which will be held following the Women’s Heart Care Extravaganza Expo at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, on Friday, 15 March.
The event is hosted by the Cayman Heart Fund and Baptist Health International to help combat cardiovascular disease, which is the No. 1 health threat to women and the leading cause of death of the Cayman Islands.
For more information on the luncheon, call 516-7323.
Health fair
On Saturday, 16 March, the Heart Health Fund is hosting is sixth annual Heart Health Fair. Admission to the event between 8am and 2pm at the Arts and Recreation Centre in Camana Bay is free.
As part of the Cayman Heart Fund’s mission to ensure that everyone knows their numbers, there will be free health for all adults and children at the fair on blood pressure, Body Mass Index, blood glucose, cholesterol and waist circumference. Anyone who wishes to have a screening is asked not to eat or drink 10 hours prior to the test (except for blood pressure medicine).
Cardiac health experts will be giving free public lectures on a wide array of heart health issues throughout the day. Health Minister Mark Scotland will open the fair at 9am, after which Baptist Health International’s Dr. Joseph Ostroski will give some preventive health tips and then St. Luke’s cardiologist, Dr. Tracy Stevens will give a presentation on the hearts of women.
At 10am, internist, Dr. Gabriel Gavrilescu from Cleveland Clinic will present “Add to conventional therapy: Alternative ways to cardiovascular wellness”, followed by cardiologist Dr. Michael Borkon from the Heart Health Centre who will talk on “The Healing Hand of Heart Surgery” at 10.30am.
At 11am, Dr. Tara Dall from the Health Diagnostic Laboratory in the UK will talk on advanced lipid testing; at 11.30am, cardiologist Dr. Joanna Kregiel from TrinCay will present on “Disease of young hearts”; at noon, pharmacist Todd Jefferson from Professional Pharmacy in Cayman will talk on “Myth vs. truth: Over the counter cardiac supplements”; at 12.30pm, dentist Dr. Naude Dreyer of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority will give a presentation on “Your teeth and gums and heart disease”; at 1pm, psychiatrist Dr. Blanca Bolea from TrinCay will discuss anxiety and cardiovascular disease and the last speaker of the day will be cardiologist Dr. Chacko from who will present on “Advances in cardiovascular medicine: Where we have come from and where we are headed”.
Each presentation is scheduled to last 20 minutes.
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