Adam's Updates Blog – Page 8

In case you missed it... I was recently interviewed by Linda Burhans from the "Connecting Caregivers" radio show.

On behalf of the HeartValveSurgery.com community, I would like to extend an extraordinary thanks to Medtronic and Abbott for their support of patients all over the world during COVID-19.

[Update: Great news! The "Advances in COVID-19 & Heart Valve Therapy" webinar held on August 27, 2020 was an extraordinary success with 287 patients connected in real-time. You can now download a free eBook or watch the video recording of the webinar at this link.]

Unexpected! Many, many, many thanks to Bill Martinez for interviewing me about the findings from our new survey of 3,400 patients and caregivers.

Unexpected!

On behalf of our patient community, I am excited to announce that Medtronic, one of the world's largest medical device companies and a leading heart valve manufacturer, is officially joining the HeartValveSurgery.com community to help educate and empower patients!

As Lao Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, once said, "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality."

Thanks to the wonderful support of patients, their family members and friends, I am happy to report that HeartValveSurgery.com achieved the #2 ranking in FeedSpot's 2020 Top Heart Blogs & Websites.

In this Proud Papa Moment, I am happy to share that Ethan, my 11-year old son, who many of you have come to know over the years... Is graduating from elementary school!!!!!

Thanks to the AMAZING patients in our community!!!!

[April 30, 2020 Update: Thanks to the wonderful patients at this community, we collected over 3,000 survey responses in four days. Please stay tuned for the posting of results to this survey. You can subscribe to my heart valve blog to get the results here.]

Big news!

Dear Patients & Friends,

As the COVID-19 pandemic surges past 921,000 worldwide cases, I need to thank Medtronic for doubling its ventilator production to help patients suffering from the novel coronavirus.

If you are curious to know what leading heart surgeons are saying about COVID-19, you may want to watch this insightful video series, "COVID-19: An International Perspective".

I'm not a "doomsdayer". I'm not a pessimist. And, I'm not a hoarder.

Over the past few weeks, I have received several important questions about coronavirus, COVID-19 and heart valve disease. For that reason, I just started a new educational resource dedicated to the coronavirus at this link.

Amazing! Double Amazing! Triple Amazing!

Woo-Whoo!!! Today is National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day! Let's join together to raise awareness to this under-diagnosed, under-treated and deadly form of heart disease!!!

Great news! As we continue to celebrate "Heart Month", I am very happy to share that the Facebook LIVE videos from the "Ask Adam Anything" patient event have been posted below!