TuftScope, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health, Ethics and Policy, hosted “The Heart of the Matter: An expert panel on life-prolonging medicine in the 21st century” in the ASEAN Auditorium last night. The event featured cardiovascular medicine specialists John Groarke, Eldrin Lewis and Mandeep Mehra, who are all associated with Boston's Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In the talk, Groarke emphasized how cardio-oncology, a field which the panelists said was founded to prevent the cause of cardiovascular diseases due to new cancer treatments, enables doctors to improve patients’ quality of life to the point that “they may not even realize they are sick.”
The panelists also focused on how new technology, medicine and research have improved the study of cardiovascular health.
“It’s hard to call ourselves 'heart failure specialists,'" Mehra said. "We like to call ourselves 'heart success specialists.'”
TuftScope hosts panel of cardiovascular experts
Dr. –John Groarke discusses cardio-oncology at "The Heart of the Matter," a panel hosted by TuftScope and sponsored by the Tufts Premedical Society, at ASEAN Auditorium on March 15.
