World Healthy Life Week is organised by The Cardiovascular Research Trust The Healthy Heart Charity as an established annual event.
The charity and its and partners around the world aim to raise awareness of the cardiovascular and broader benefits of a healthy life for everyone around the world. These are serious issues not just for wealthier countries but also for less developed countries around the world.
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Our speakers and discussants consider important ways in which a healthier life can help to prevent and reduce the severity of serious disorders of the heart, brain and circulation as well as other important medical conditions.
These sessions are intended for senior and junior health professionals as well as interested members of the public from anywhere in the world. Previous registrants – and panel contributors – for Healthy Life webinars from the healthy heart charity have come from Europe, the Americas, the Middle-East, South Asia and South East Asia and Oceania.
Session Moderators in 2021
Bernard Cheung – Trustee, Cardiovascular Research Trust
Michael Hulse – Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick
Tanya Potiyenko – Trustee, Cardiovascular Research Trust
Kieran Seale – External Advisory Panel, Cardiovascular Research Trust
Donald Singer – Chair, Cardiovascular Research Trust
Tuesday 2nd November: 4pm UK time
Active transport for better health
Heart and other health benefits of active travel
Adrian Davis, Professor of Transport and Health, Edinburgh Napier University
How to promote active travel
Dr Tom Cohen, Senior Lecturer, Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster
Wednesday 3rd November: 3pm UK time
Improving heart health for women
Better heart health in women: important cardiovascular disease risk factors, including pre-eclampsia
Jeanine Roeters van Lennep – Internist and Specialist in Vascular Medicine
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam
Improving recognition and outcomes for coronary heart disease in women
Aaysha Cader – Assistant Professor of Cardiology
Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute, Dhaka
Thursday 4th November: 4pm UK time
4:00pm
Introduction
Donald Singer – Chair, Cardiovascular Research Trust
Exercise: a miracle cure in need of a new approach
Mrs Scarlett McNally Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Eastbourne
Combining exercise with work
Tanya Potiyenko, Trustee, Cardiovascular Research Trust
Exercise after heart attack – experience of a patient
Rolf Updale, Fitness coach
Returning to exercise
Ali Crewe-Smith, Chartered Physiotherapist, Impact Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Clinics, Warwickshire, UK
Saturday 6th November: Partner in 2021 World Healthy Life events
Annual Meeting, University of Hong Kong Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine
Interplay between cardiovascular disease and COVID-19
Professor Donald Singer
Chair, Cardiovascular Research Trust: the Healthy Heart Charity
Related events
Monday 6th December 4pm UK time
1. Medical contributors
Stroke in newborn infants and young children
Professor Frances Cowan
Consultant in Perinatal Neurology, Imperial Colege London
Infections as mimics of stroke
Dr Jessica Tuan
Yale University Medical School
This session marks the Launch of Storm Brain
A book of medical essays and poems on stroke and the brain
2. Wednesday 8th December 8.30pm UK time
Poems to Live for:
Launch of Storm Brain
3. Wednesday 15th December 8.30pm UK time
Poems to Live for:
Launch of Storm Brain
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