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• Science and Leadership Symposium for Women with Heart Disease
• Health Issues and Concerns of Women of Color: A Call to Action III

Science and Leadership Symposium for Women with Heart Disease

In 2002, WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease hosted its first annual Science and Leadership Symposium for Women with Heart Disease. Each year, OWH provides support for fellowships for consumer advocates to attend the symposium. The symposium is also sponsored by the Mayo Clinic's Women's Heart Clinic and the Mayo Clinic's Office of Women's Health.

The symposium is a four-day training and education event for women patients who have cardiovascular disease and who want to be community educators and patient advocates. During their four days at the Mayo Clinic, 60 women attend medical lectures on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women. They also attend complementary care workshops, training sessions in improving media and presentation skills, and cardiac diagnostic lab tours.

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Health Issues and Concerns of Women of Color: A Call to Action III

In 2003, the Women's Health Institute of Howard University, in conjunction with OWH as a participating sponsor, recently presented a conference entitled Health Issues and Concerns of Women of Color: A Call to Action III. This conference provided a forum for health professionals and community representatives to present relevant research, service, and prevention models on cardiovascular disease for ethnically and culturally diverse women. Conference topics included alternative therapies, culturally sensitive information on behavior and lifestyle modification, pharmacologic interventions, and strategies to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Content last updated February 1, 2004