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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 Mike Omeri, OFR

Dr Mike Omeri, OFR

Former Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Nigeria, and Founder of Timbuktoo Media Solutions

Nigeria

Prof Pamela Naidoo

Prof Pamela Naidoo

CEO Heart & Stroke Foundation South Africa

South Africa

Dr Enrique Melgarejo

Dr Enrique Melgarejo

Past- President Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

Colombia

Dr Regina Dalmau

Dr Regina Dalmau

President of the CNPT (Comité Nacional para la Prevención del Tabaquismo)

Spain

Dr Stella Bialous

Dr Stella Bialous

Associate Professor in Residence, Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco

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.