Over the past 18 months, COVID-19 has strained our health services, highlighting the need to find alternative ways to connect people to heart health. While digital tools such as telehealth have clear benefits, there is a risk that this rapid transformation in healthcare could exacerbate the existing inequity in access to healthcare. The panel will discuss the greatest opportunities and challenges for progress against cardiovascular disease in a more connected world.
Panelists:
Prof Fausto Pinto, President of World Heart Federation
Dr Ann Aerts, Head of Novartis Foundation
Prof. dr. Jeroen Bax, ESC Immediate Past-President, Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Trudie Lobban, Founder & CEO of Atrial Fibrillation Association (AF Association), Arrhythmia Alliance (A-A) and STARS (Syncope Trust And Reflex anoxic Seizures).
Dr Zina Ben Miled, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
Arianne Alcorta, TV host and moderator, media trainer and university professor