WEBINARS

HEARTBROTHERS 2022 WEBINAR SERIES

Exploring Topics Affecting the Heart Failure Community 
 

Welcome to HeartBrothers' 2022 Webinar Series—our continuing online events designed to educate the global Heart Failure patient community regarding a variety of relevant and timely topics. Our 2022 webinars—outlined below—each culminates with a patient Q&A to ensure we meet the needs of our community. 

We invite you to scroll down to register for upcoming webinars & watch past webinars.

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Female Heart Failure patients share their personal stories of overcoming the challenges of Heart Failure and Heart Transplant while persevering in their role as mothers.

Original broadcast: January 20, 2022

HEART TRANSPLANTS & MOTHERHOOD

Hope for Women Struggling with Heart Failure
 

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MINORITY COMMUNITIES & HeART FAILURE

Explore Their Unique Heart Failure & Transplant Journeys
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The Heart Failure journey in minority communities is arduous. Patients of color share their unique perspectives and challenges overcome on their road to transplant.

Original broadcast: February 17, 2022

Featuring

TRANSPLANT EXPERT

Ingrid Palacios, New England Donor Services

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Presented by CareDX, this special webinar invites heart, lung, and kidney transplant patients to share what they wish they had known prior to transplant.
Original broadcast: March 31, 2022

TRANSPLANT CONFESSIONS:

I Wish I Would Have Known...
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Featuring

Jesse Arnold, Lung Transplant Recipient
Ebert Mahon, Kidney Transplant Recipient
Patrick Sullivan, Heart Transplant Recipient, Co-Founder, HeartBrothers
 

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World-renowned, Boston-based HCM specialist, Dr. Martin Maron, explores this silent killer and how it affects Heart Failure patients--from hereditary risk, to prevalence, to outcomes.
Original broadcast: April 21, 2022

HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY (HCM):

What It Is & How It Impacts Multiple Generations
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Featuring

Medical EXPERT

Martin S. Maron, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

MODERATOR

Linda Ordway, MSN, NP, Tufts Medical Center

PATIENT PANELISTS

Karen Klimczak, HCM Patient & Heart Transplant Survivor

Tom Bull, HCM Patient & Heart Transplant Survivor

Darlene Goodwin, HCM Patient & Heart Transplant Survivor

Timothy Goodwin, HCM Patient

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An emotional discussion exploring caregivers' unique challenges in supporting Heart Failure patients on their arduous journey to heart transplant and beyond.
Original broadcast: May 19, 2022

HEART FAILURE & TRANSPLANT JOURNEY:

The Caregiver Perspective

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TransMedics is transforming the clinical practice of donor organ procurement and OCS™ perfusion, establishing "the new" standard of care in organ transplantation.

Original broadcast: Thursday, October 6, 2022

NATIONAL OCS PROGRAM (NOP):

A Transformative Practice to Increase
Solid Organ Transplants in the US​

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A look at the various medications and therapeutics currently used to treat Heart Failure and those used by transplant patients to prevent graft rejection. Hear about the current slew of HF transplant benefits, side effects and what new medications are in the works.

Original broadcast: Thursday, October 27, 2022

DRUG PROTOCOLS POST TRANSPLANT
Current Massachusetts General Hospital Program Management Protocols

MODERATOR

Glenn Rockwood, Team HeartBrothers