{"id":768,"date":"2021-02-04T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/?page_id=768"},"modified":"2025-02-05T00:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:06:21","slug":"go-red-women-dr-joanna-chikwe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/go-red-women-dr-joanna-chikwe\/","title":{"rendered":"We &#8220;Go Red for Women&#8221; with Dr. Joanna Chikwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s unite for the \u201cGo Red for Women\u201d initiative to raise awareness for women\u2019s heart health!\u00a0 Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer of women causing 1 in 3 deaths each year?\u00a0 Did you know that 49% of women have at least one risk factor including high blood pressure, obesity and stress?<\/p>\n<p>To educate you about heart valve disease from a woman&#8217;s perspective, we just posted a special video with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Joanna-Chikwe-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Dr. Joanna Chikwe<\/a>, the Chair of Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.\u00a0 In this unique video, Dr. Chikwe answers 7 important questions that were submitted by women from the HeartValveSurgery.com community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/efhsyjd8Yp0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Ready to Get Involved?<\/h2>\n<p>Many thanks to Beth, Carolyn, Cheryl, Donna, Kathy, Kim and Laura for submitting their questions to Dr. Chikwe for the Go Red For Women initiative. It was wonderful to receive our first ever &#8220;video questions&#8221; from Carolyn, Cheryl, Donna and Kathy that are featured in our new video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-776 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/..\/Images\/carolyn-go-red.jpg\" alt=\"Carolyn - Heart Valve Patient\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" \/>Carolyn Moser<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-777 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/..\/Images\/donna-go-red.jpg\" alt=\"Donna - Heart Valve Patient Go Red\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" \/>Donna Hartly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-778 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/..\/Images\/kathy-cheryl.jpg\" alt=\"Kathy &amp; Cheryl- Heart Valve Patients\" width=\"538\" height=\"263\" \/>Kathy Shelton (left) &amp; Cheryl Irvine (Right)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested to get involved on this special day, there are lots of opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goredforwomen.org\/en\/get-involved\/give\/wear-red-and-give\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to learn more from the AHA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks Dr. Chikwe &amp; Cedars-Sinai!<\/h2>\n<p>I can&#8217;t thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Joanna-Chikwe-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Dr. Joanna Chikwe<\/a> enough for helping us celebrate the &#8220;Go Red for Woman&#8221; initiative with this educational video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-787 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/..\/Images\/joanna-chikwe-md-adam-pick.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Joanna Chikwe &amp; Adam Pick\" width=\"700\" height=\"244\" \/>Dr. Joanna Chikwe &amp; Adam Pick<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank the Cedars-Sinai team (that means you Gordon, Dana and Andy) for your support of this very important day and our community!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0For the hearing impaired members of our community, I have provided a written transcript of my interview with Dr. Chikwe below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"cms.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"class_list":["post-768","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}