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WHAT IS HEARTFEST?
Heartfest serves several purposes. First and foremost, it raises much needed funds to support the research programs of The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease. In addition, events such as Heartfest help raise awareness about heart disease, the nation's number one killer, and how it can be prevented.
For the past seventeen years, Heartfest has offered heart-healthy cuisine prepared by chefs from the Baltimore area’s most acclaimed restaurants and caterers, as well as wine tasting provided by The Wine Merchant, and information on the latest research results in the prevention of heart disease and stroke.
On Saturday, January 26, 2008, Martin's West will be transformed into a fun and educational evening of tasting, dancing, and feasting from 7:30 PM to midnight to the sounds of the rock, soul, and swing band of medical professionals Stevie V. & The Heart Attackers.
WHAT MAKES THE JOHNS HOPKINS PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY CENTER DIFFERENT?
In a word, resources. The Center draws on the wealth of resources at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, voted “Best of the Best,” for its seventeenth consecutive year by a U.S. News & World Report national survey of physicians. Thanks to the Hopkins network of professionals, the Center has a uniquely qualified team of outstanding physicians, research scientists, nurses, and health educators who previously worked independently of each other.
The Center's physicians identified the first inherited risk factor for blood clots involved in heart attacks and published their landmark discovery in the New England Journal of Medicine. They also published many important articles in Circulation and JAMA, dealing with the optimal screening and management of people with a family history of heart disease and better ways to identify higher risk individuals.
WHO BENEFITS FROM THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY CENTER?
Everyone! The Center was developed to reduce everyone's risk of heart disease through prevention and education and, for those individuals with a record of heart disease, through regression. Whether you are eighteen or eighty, the Center works to determine risk levels and can develop one-of-a-kind programs designed to reduce all risk factors associated with heart disease.
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