Re: Toakase Fakakovikaetau: Pioneering pediatrician in Tonga (2)
Congratulations to Toa for well-earned recognition! And thanks to ProCor for helping bring visibility to busy, isolated unsung Heart Heroes who are too busy helping people get or stay healthy to spend time getting themselves into the limelight. Lancet deserves credit, too, for recognizing more than clinical trials as the gold standard for medical excellence.
Alice
Alice Grainger Gasser | Demonstration Project Manager | World Heart Federation | 7, rue des Battoirs | P. O. Box 155 | 1211 Geneva 4 | Switzerland | Phone +41 22 807 03 33 | Fax +41 22 807 03 39 | E-mail alice.graingergasser@worldheart.org | Web www.worldheart.org
The World Heart Federation is committed to helping people achieve a longer and better life through prevention and control of heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Join us at World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2010 | Featuring the 3rd International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke | 16-19 June 2010 | Beijing, China | www.worldcardiocongress.org
-----Original Message-----
From: procor@procor.org
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009
To: Global Dialogue
Subject: [procor] Toakase Fakakovikaetau: Pioneering pediatrician in Tonga
The ProCor team is enormously excited and proud to share with our global community a newly published Lancet profile of Dr. Toa Fakakovikaetau, 2008 recipient of ProCor's Louise Lown Heart Hero Award (The Lancet Vol 373, 20 June 2009).
"Toakase Fakakovikaetau: pioneering paediatrician in Tonga" describes Dr. Toa's dedicated efforts to screen Tongan schoolchildren for rheumatic heart disease and provide early treatment so they can grow up healthy. "These basic preventive steps in reducing the burden of heart disease have liberated precious resources in a country where the cost of sending one child abroad for treatment matched the cost of upgrading preventive services in primary care facilities..." The Lancet writes.
The article is available open-access at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61138-7/fulltext.
We congratulate Dr. Toa on this much-deserved global recognition and believe that it will be instrumental in attracting attention to the urgent need for increased efforts to prevent rheumatic heart disease, together with increased support for her work and that of other unsung heart heroes around the world.
Alice
Alice Grainger Gasser | Demonstration Project Manager | World Heart Federation | 7, rue des Battoirs | P. O. Box 155 | 1211 Geneva 4 | Switzerland | Phone +41 22 807 03 33 | Fax +41 22 807 03 39 | E-mail alice.graingergasser@worldheart.org | Web www.worldheart.org
The World Heart Federation is committed to helping people achieve a longer and better life through prevention and control of heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Join us at World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2010 | Featuring the 3rd International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke | 16-19 June 2010 | Beijing, China | www.worldcardiocongress.org
-----Original Message-----
From: procor@procor.org
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009
To: Global Dialogue
Subject: [procor] Toakase Fakakovikaetau: Pioneering pediatrician in Tonga
The ProCor team is enormously excited and proud to share with our global community a newly published Lancet profile of Dr. Toa Fakakovikaetau, 2008 recipient of ProCor's Louise Lown Heart Hero Award (The Lancet Vol 373, 20 June 2009).
"Toakase Fakakovikaetau: pioneering paediatrician in Tonga" describes Dr. Toa's dedicated efforts to screen Tongan schoolchildren for rheumatic heart disease and provide early treatment so they can grow up healthy. "These basic preventive steps in reducing the burden of heart disease have liberated precious resources in a country where the cost of sending one child abroad for treatment matched the cost of upgrading preventive services in primary care facilities..." The Lancet writes.
The article is available open-access at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61138-7/fulltext.
We congratulate Dr. Toa on this much-deserved global recognition and believe that it will be instrumental in attracting attention to the urgent need for increased efforts to prevent rheumatic heart disease, together with increased support for her work and that of other unsung heart heroes around the world.
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