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American Heart Association Consolidates Miami-Dade County Branches Into One.


MIAMI--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 11, 1998--The American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA),
n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities.
 has merged four separate divisions in Miami-Dade County into one large organization with a new board of directors.

Formerly, the AHA of Dade County Dade County can refer to the following places:
  • Dade County, Florida, in the southeastern part of the state now renamed Miami-Dade County
  • Dade County, Georgia, the state's northwestern-most, bordering Alabama and Tennessee
 was divided into the Metro Miami, South Dade, Miami Beach/Aventura, and Hialeah/Miami Lakes branches. The divisions, known now as the American Heart Association of Miami-Dade (Miami-Dade AHA), were consolidated in order to better serve the Miami-Dade community.

Officer positions within the newly formed organization were restructured to provide specialized medical and business leadership. The Chairman of the Board will serve as the Miami-Dade AHA's chief officer, presiding over board meetings and spearheading the recruitment and orientation of core volunteer leaders. The President will serve as chief science officer and act as the Division's official science, medical health, and public policy spokesperson.

Harvey Goldman, a senior partner in the corporate/securities practice in one of South Florida's leading law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
, Steel Hector & Davis LLP

Established in 1892, Davis LLP (formerly Davis & Company LLP) is a full-service Canadian law firm with over 200 lawyers.
, is the new Chairman of the Miami-Dade AHA. Mr. Goldman was formerly the Chairman of the Board of the AHA's Metro Miami Division and has been an active member of the AHA for four years.

Dr. Sameer Mehta, Medical Director and Chief of Interventional Cardiology interventional cardiology Cardiology The subspecialty of cardiology dedicated to the diagnosis, medical and mechanical therapy, pre- and post-procedure management of adult patients with acute and chronic forms of cardiovascular disease amenable to catheter-based  at the Columbia Cedars Medical Center in Miami, is President of Miami-Dade AHA. Mr. Mehta was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the AHA's Metro Miami Division and has been involved with the AHA for more than five years.

Other officers and chairs include: Vice Chair/American HeartWalk Chair Donald Marx of the Equitable's Musibay/Chiappy Agency; Vice President Kenneth Rosenthal, MD, of Mercy Hospital Mercy Hospital or Mercy Medical Center could refer to the following hospitals in:
  • Australia
  • Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee, Victoria
; First Vice Chair Roger Terrone of the accounting firm of Bloom, Gettis, Habib, Silver & Terrone; Second Vice Chair Ileana Bravo, health reporter with NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
 Channel 6; Secretary Stephen Wayner, a solo legal practitioner based in Coral Gables; and HeartBall Chair Alys Daly of Cordis Corporation. Executive Director of the Miami-Dade AHA is Lynn Croneberger, who has held the position since 1994. There are approximately 60 board members for the Miami AHA.

    CONTACT:  American Heart Association
               Lynn Croneberger, 305/856-1449


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