American Heart Association.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 named Hannah Valantine president, P. K. Shaw president-elect, Ray Durazo chairman, and Karol E. Watson secretary of its board for the western states affiliate. Valantine is a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. ; Shaw is director of the cardiology and atherosclerosis research center at Cedars-Sinai medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as and professor of medicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine; Durazo is the founder of Durazo Communications; and Watson is an assistant professor of cardiology at the UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. . |
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