Understanding Heart Valve Disease: Your Questions Answered

On National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day, a panel of Stony Brook Heart Institute physician experts will answer your questions* about risk factors, recognizing symptoms and getting timely treatment. As many as 11 million Americans have heart valve disease and approximately 25,000 people die from the disorder each year, yet three out of four of us report knowing little to nothing about valve disease. The good news is that valve disease can usually be successfully treated in patients of all ages.
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* If you have questions, please enter them in the comments section (or submit anonymously here: bit.ly/sbmlivestream), and our experts will do their best to address them all throughout our live broadcast.
Moderator:
Henry J. Tannous, MD
Co-Director, Stony Brook Heart Institute
Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Surgical Director, Structural Heart Program
General T.F. Cheng Chair, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Panelists:
Smadar Kort, MD, FACC, FASE, FAHA
Director, Valve Center
Director, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging
Director, Echocardiography
Stony Brook Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Past Governor, American College of Cardiology, Downstate New York
Associate Professor of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Puja B. Parikh, MD, MPH
Interventional Cardiologist
Director, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Jonathan D. Price, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Robert T. Pyo, MD
Director, Interventional Cardiology
Medical Director, Structural Heart Program
Associate Professor, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Jonathan B. Weinstein, DO
Interventional Cardiologist, North Suffolk Cardiology
Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University