N-HeFT™ Collaborations

I. Family Medicine at CWRU

HF creates a huge US public health and financial burden and is increasing to epidemic proportion. A wide gap exists between newer therapies, known to improve outcomes for HF patients, and practice, resulting in preventable morbidity & mortality. In response to the increasing number of these patients who are seeing family physicians and the need for better tools for patient care in a challenging, constantly changing environment, N-HeFT™ has been part of an educational partnership with Family Medicine at CWRU since September, 2004. Weaving heart failure training, clinical practice, and evaluation of all levels of training for all three years builds a strong foundation for caring for these patients. The program is modeled on the new curriculum being developed for the medical school under the direction of Dr. Piña, who serves on the Scholars Collaboration Committee as a mentor at CWRU.

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II. The Chronic Care Collaborative

University Hospitals of Cleveland, CWRU, MetroHealth Medical Center and Louis B. Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Hospital have joined with 22 medical schools to change the paradigm of chronic disease management by redesigning resident-staffed clinics.  University Hospital has identified heart failure as one of its target disease states for this pilot project and is working with The Douglas Moore Clinic and Bolwell Outpatient Clinic.

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III. The Think Tank for Cardiovascular Research in Women

The Think Tank for Cardiovascular Research in Women, under the directorship of Dr. Ileana Piña and Dr. Eileen Hsich, was created in response to public health concerns resulting from disparities in the management of cardiovascular diseases and related outcomes in women.  The purpose of the Think Tank is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss promising and novel approaches to the management of cardiac disease and its risk factors and to identify promising new directions in related research.  The Think Tank is supported by the Office of Women’s Health (US Public Health Service) and the CWRU National Heart Failure Training Program. 

The first meeting of the Think Tank took place at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on February 16, 2006 with 43 of the leading women in cardiology and will meet quarterly to review current knowledge and make decisions about research topics to address with the ultimate goal of creating multi-center prospective studies for women with cardiovascular diseases.

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