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How to Live to be 100 ... Lessons learned from Indians and Italians
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
Presented by Boca Grande Health Clinic, Boca Grande Health Clinic Foundation, and Healthnetwork Foundation:
During today’s webinar, we will:
- Review new observations and treatment strategies for reducing heart disease – the most common cause of death in the United States.
- Review lessons learned from “Blue Zones” around the world — where there is a higher percentage of people living to be centenarians.
- Review new treatments for cholesterol lowering including PCSK9 inhibitors, statin therapies and siRNA agents. Learn new concepts regarding diabetes and obesity.
- Review worldwide epidemic of heart disease including among. developing countries
- Learn role of diet and exercise in reducing coronary disease.
… and more.
Opening Remarks By
Megan Frankel
President, Healthnetwork Foundation
Megan Frankel joined Healthnetwork Foundation in 2017 with over 15 years of experience in the healthcare field. Most recently, Megan served as the Senior Director of Global Executive Education at Cleveland Clinic. In this role, she was responsible for developing, promoting and executing Cleveland Clinic’s leadership development programs for physicians, administrators and nurses traveling to Cleveland from around the world.
Prior to that, Megan served as Senior Director of Marketing Account Services at Cleveland Clinic. In over 10 years in marketing, Megan supported nearly every hospital service line and launched many new and innovative initiatives that have since become standard practice. Megan has traveled extensively to hospitals around the US and around the world in support of Cleveland Clinic’s broad affiliation network.
She is grateful to be able to utilize her deep knowledge of the healthcare industry to support the important efforts of Healthnetwork. Megan is a graduate of John Carroll University. She lives in Chagrin Falls with her husband and two children – all avid sports fans (particularly Cleveland sports).
Focused Speaker
Sandip Mukherjee
MD, FACC
Sandip Mukherjee, MD, is a cardiologist at Yale Medicine who specializes in treating and preventing conditions such as hypertension and aortic aneurysms.
Dr. Mukherjee’s interest in medicine stems from watching his grandfather practice as a surgeon in a rural part of India. “There was very little money, but what he did showed itself in the thankfulness of the patients that he treated,” he says. “There’s no better feeling than saving someone’s life.”
Dr. Mukherjee went to Texas Tech University for medical school, and then completed his residency and fellowship at Yale. As the first cardiac ultrasound imaging fellow, he specializes in preventing heart disease.
As a physician, Dr. Mukherjee focuses on preventing and treating heart disease. “If everyone followed all the preventive strategies properly, we have a chance of reducing 70% of all cardiac events in the world,” he says. His main focus is on identifying risk factors of coronary artery disease, one of the most common causes of heart attack.
In the event of a heart attack or other serious cardiac event, Dr. Mukherjee and his team use the latest technology to operate quickly. “If you come in within an hour or so after a heart attack, we have the ability to open up an artery, put in a stent, and save a life,” he says.
In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Mukherjee conducts clinical research to investigate safer and more effective ways of treating heart diseases. “I think that the advances that we make, either in the lab or in clinical-translational research, have a profound influence on the way that patients are treated,” he says. Throughout his career as a researcher, he has witnessed a transformation in heart disease drugs and procedures that have made it easier and faster to rescue patients from life-threatening cardiac events. “We’re living in a golden age of medicine,” he says.
Dr. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
