Heart Heroes
Hear from caregivers, cardiologists, patients and their family members – all heroes among us, battling, treating and beating heart disease.
If you’d like to nominate a Heart Hero or are a Heart Hero yourself and would like to share your story, please contact [email protected].
Dr Chuichi Kawai
Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University. Past President of the World Heart Federation.
Japan
Polybio Serra e Silva
MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Coimbra and President of the Scientific Board of the Portuguese Heart Foundation
Portugal
Dr Sidney Smith
American Heart Association Past President, World Heart Federation Past President and volunteer medical expert
United States
The Heart Hero series consists of personal testimonials that patients, practitioners, caregivers, and others wish to offer and share in their own authentic voice. Any examples of diagnoses, care, treatment, medical processes, or recommendations mentioned in the stories are provided independently of WHF’s policy or scientific and technical outputs.