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| Wear red for Toronto City Night |
 Monday, October 27
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Hall G, 19:30
The Three Young Tenors
Sean Cullen
The Descendants
Experience the districts of Toronto in a Tapas style banquet. A variety to suit everyone's tastes and appropriate seating to relax and enjoy the array of food and entertainment. |
| The Heart Truth Campaign |
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Did you know that women are at higher risk of death from heart disease and stroke than their male counterparts?
Awareness is the key to reversing this trend, and is the goal of the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Heart Truth Campaign.
CCC 2008 will showcase their initiative by featuring the Red Dress Campaign in the Community Forum, a Dress Red day on Monday, a Red Dress Themed Fun Night.
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| Canadian Society of Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (CSATVB) |
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The Annual Scientific Meeting and AGM of the CSATVB will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre as part of the CCC, October 25 - 28.
The scientific meeting includes three Symposia:
- "Chylomicron biology in health and disease",
- "Caveolae function in vascular cells", and
- "Advances in anticoagulants and antithrombotics"
Three special lectures:
- Dr. Christophe Garenc (CSATVB Grant-In-Aid winner 2006) will speak on oxysterols in foam cells,
- Dr. George Liu (Vice President Chinese Atherosclerosis Society) on atherogenesis in hypertriglyceridemic mice, and
- Dr. André Marette (2008 Scientific Excellence Awardee) will describe molecular mechanisms in inflammation-induced insulin resistance.
There are four orals and one poster session.
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Dr. Beth L. Abramson |
THE HEART TRUTH: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IS A WOMAN'S DISEASE (TOO)
Monday, October 27, 2008
14:00 - 15:30
Beth Abramson MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is Director of the Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre & Women's Cardiovascular Health in the Division of Cardiology at St. Michael's Hospital.
Dr. Abramson graduated from the U. of Toronto medical school. She trained in internal medicial in Toronto and completed a fellowship in clinical cardiology at the Ottawa Heart Institute. Subsequently, she completed a research fellowhip funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation Research Corporation of Canada. During her research training, Dr. Abramson initially studied human congestive heart failure and subsequently focused on evaluating issues related to women and heart disease and the role of the female sex hormones on the cardiovascular system. She has training in clinical epidemiology and a Masters of Health Administration from the University of Toronto. She holds fellowships in Internal Medicine from the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
In 2000, she was a primary member of the CCS Consensus Conference on Women and Ischemic Heart Disease and has been involved in writing guidelines on hormone replacement therapy on behalf of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society in collaboration with the SGOC and the HSF. In 2005 she co-chaired Canadian Cardiovascular Consensus Conference on Peripheral Arterial Disease. Dr. Abramson's activities also include membership on the Admissions Committee for the University of Toronto School of Medicine.
She spends much time educating the public on heart health and is a national spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Her role in health promotion is evolving, and in 2007 was invited to become a member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada's Health Policy and Promotion Committee (HPPAC). She is on the Heart Truth Leadership Council, which will head an awareness campaign for women and heart disease at the national level in 2008.
Key research interests:
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Prevention of coronary disease in both sexes
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Evaluation of women's cardiac health needs
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The role of female sex hormones in the cardiovascular system |
