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Causes: Health, Heart & Circulatory System Diseases & Disorders Research
Mission: The organization provides medical education and training of physicians and other health care professionals in the use of state-of-the-art non-surgical procedures and technology to open blocked arteries. These activities will further the foundation's primary scientific and educational exempt purposes by helping to make medical treatment more effective, efficient and less costly. The foundation conducts continuing medical education meetings at various sites with the assistance of renowned physician specialists in interventional cardiology. The foundation makes grants to renowned experts in various medical specialities who will use the funds to pay for equipment, supplies, and technicians necessary to conduct research on the foundation's behalf. The purpose of the research efforts is to refine medical treatment procedures which will further the foundation's primary exempt purposes by helping to make medical treatment more effective, efficient and less costly.
Programs: The foundation sponsors various events to teach new techniques in the field of interventional cardiology, with the the long term goal to train doctors in new devices, techniques, and treatments for the heart. Formerly, their main event has been a conference, named all that jazz. After 20 consecutive years of being one of the premier medical education events in the nation dealing with stroke and vascular disease, this event has now been retired. However, the board will continue to search for educational needs and will resume educational meeting/events when such a need is identified. This may be live, web-based, or other format, as technology continues to change the face of medical education. Education of the public will follow as an addition to education of medical professionals, as it has in the past with the numerous public forums that have been held at no cost to the public.