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THE NEW YORK CARDIAC CENTER is a charitable,
educational, and research foundation. Our mission is to be a part of the ongoing effort
to diagnose and prevent heart and other diseases. We help sponsor the development
of
treatment for those who need it and assist in training new scientists, educators and
physicians. We’re committed
to improving your chances of living a full and healthy life. To do so we commit our
resources to innovative projects in research, education and treatment.
From its founding in 1937 as a cardiac treatment center, NYCC has been an organization
willing to take risks in investing its assets in order to advance human health. Among its pioneering innovations,
in the 1950’s, NYCC Board Member and famed cardiologist Paul Dudley White, instituted
a then radical change in diet which limited fat intake and included mild exercise as
treatment for his heart patients. His efforts dramatically improved patients’
long-range outlook. In the past four decades, NYCC has re-focused itself with innovative
projects in research and education and has published a series of pamphlets on topics
related to cardiac diseases. Authors include such well known MD’s as Professors of
Cardiology
Isadore Rosenfeld and
Michael Wolk of
Weill-Cornell Medical School. Dr. Wolk, a member of the NYCC Board and
Executive Vice-President of the
New York Cardiac Center foundation, is a Past President, Board of Trustees, American
College of Cardiology.
NYCC projects are associated with some of the premier research and educational
institutions in the United States. Past projects have included the pioneering use of the
cardiac stent at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, photopheresis at Yale to
combat auto-immune diseases and research into stress reducing techniques
such as biofeedback at Columbia.
Today, we help educate
cardiologists in association with the New York chapter of the American College
of Cardiology and the New York Cardiological Society. These
cardiologists earn CME credits through their attendance at a series of
seminars which are presented through the year.
In 2007 we began a new program in association with one of
the premier secondary schools in the U.S., the
Bronx High
School of Science, to assist their graduates in furthering
their education. A series of four year college
scholarships are awarded each year to outstanding graduates of this unique,
inner city school who desire to further their education in
mathematics, engineering, economics and the
sciences.
One of our current projects, in association with Yale University School of Medicine, has
dramatically changed the protocol for heart transplants. An important article, published
in 1998 in The New England Journal of Medicine described how this new treatment protocol
is more effective than conventional immunosuppression alone in preventing episodes of cardiac
rejection. More importantly, new coronary artery disease in these hearts is markedly
reduced after transplantation. Another project, in association with Harvard Medical
School, Massachusetts General Hospital, uses high-speed MRI and CT techniques with the goal of
producing non-invasive studies of the heart and associated arteries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To learn more about NYCC projects call us at (201) 569-8180, fax us at (201) 568-5571
or write to us at:
82 North Summit Street, Tenafly, NJ 07670.
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