Black Women Talk To Black Women About Heart Health
Last weekend, I had the pleasure to participate as an exhibitor in Know Thyself, Love Thyself the 2nd Annual Health Expo hosted by the Potomac Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. I must say it is one of the best events I’ve worked this year. The focus of the panel discussion was the unique ways in which heart disease presents in black women, why disparities remain in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in our population. As a health educator, it’s my job is to stay informed and up to date on these issues, so I was surprised to discover how much I learned during this event.
Jennifer Donelan a broadcast journalist from WJLA (an ABC affiliate in the metropolitan Washington, DC market) stepped to the podium as the workshop’s facilitator to speak. Soon, she became a little tearful. Having suffered a heart attack while completing her workday in September 2010, she was the subject of the video health expo participants had just viewed. For Donelan, this cautionary tale to women, especially black woman of the importance of understanding the risk factors for heart disease and recognizing the warning signs for a heart attack was personal. It was her story. One that she was eager to share with other women with the hope that they might avoid the heart attack that she had not.
Is Advance Care Planning A Remote Issue?
I turned down a road towards a municipal building that strangely stood alone in the midst of a quiet residential area. I live not far away in Washington, DC yet Loudoun County feels a world away. This was also the site where Senator Mark Warner convened a roundtable conversation of end-of-life issues. I thought this building and Loudon County provided a strange symbol for the topic of end-of-life in general. They were each remote. A diverse cross-section of stakeholders gather to discuss this topic that remains remote in relation to other issues of health and medicine.
Helping Physicians Make Their Way Up The Social Media Learning Curve
When patients hear the term “The Empowered Doctor” they may ask “I thought physicians were empowered. Staff, systems, procedures are controlled by them. What am I missing ?” at least from the perspective of Annette McKinnon, ePatient. Yet, “Doctors in their prime are going out of business,” says Dr. Simon Sikorski, President of Empowered Doctor … Read more
Brain Awareness Week Summary Round-up
We explored the brain comprehensively. Through Instagram and Facebook, we took a visual look at the impact of food, games, movement and the arts on the brain as we answered the question, what makes your brain bloom? Through blog posts and twitter, we discussed a host of topics from degenerative brain disorders to vascular conditions to trauma and mood disorders. Here’s a roundup of the highlights from the week.
Touching Brains to Inspire Minds
A young woman with highlighted two-strand twist puts on a pair of large sunglasses with dark lenses turns on some music and begins dancing enthusiastically to a song with a funky beat. She invites the small crowd of students who belong to a home schooling club to join her. The students are reluctant and the volunteer-for-the-day gets no response. Removing the shades and turning off the music having garnered the students’ attention, she begins. “How do we hear?”
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