NHLBI Leads Annual Celebration of American Heart Month
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The National Football League’s Damar Hamlin (second from l), a Buffalo Bills defensive player who survived a cardiac arrest on the field in 2023, joins NIH’ers (from l) Royall, Ammary-Risch and Wei at a 2024 Red Dress fashion show in New York City.
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Tom Izzard and Courtney Coombes, both on staff in NHLBI’s Immediate Office of the Director, take a selfie for the occasion with a cardboard cutout of mascot “Cardi-O.”
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At a recent Go Red event in New York to celebrate American Heart Month are (from l) Karina Guzman, Dr. Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, Dr. Vandana Sachdev, Neyal Ammary-Risch, Dr. Lenora Johnson, Dr. Gina Wei, Brittany Royall, Melissa Barrett and Dr. Patrice Desvigne-Nickens.
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NHLBI’s Division of Cardiovascular Sciences celebrates American Heart Month on Wear Red Day.
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On NIH’s Bethesda campus, Bldg. 1 dons a banner for the month of February, American Heart Month.
In 2003, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) teamed up with the American Heart Association and other organizations to raise awareness of women and heart disease. NHLBI introduced the red dress as a national symbol for the effort and a Go Red for Women movement was born. The campaign became an annual celebration.