Mind the Gap | Disparities in Women's Heart Health

10/09/2024 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM ET

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Free - Guest Ticket (In Person)
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Location

Boston, MA

Description

Mind the Gap | Disparities in Women's Heart Health

Wednesday, October 9

6:30 - 9:00 PM

Museum of Science

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We hope you will join us at the Museum of Science on Wednesday, October 9 for an important conversation about women's heart health. Decades of extraordinary advancements in cardiovascular treatments and health outcomes mask something few people know about the persistent and inequitable gap in outcomes for women, especially for women of color. Women in the US continue to lose a total of 1.6 million years of healthy life annually due to the health gap between women and men for cardiovascular disease. We will dive into the latest report from the McKinsey Health Institute, developed in collaboration with the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement, to explore the outsized impact of cardiovascular disease on women and the actions we can take to realize better health, community, and economic outcomes. Women are often the cornerstones of their families, communities, and workplaces. Reframing women’s heart health as a problem for everyone to solve not only adds an estimated $28 billion annually for the US GDP by 2040, it will impact the lives of families, workplaces, and whole communities. Ensuring better care for women turns out to be better for us all.

Event Details

6:30 pm Reception for TBC Members

7:30 pm Program begins

Tickets are available for in-person attendance. If you cannot attend, please register for a "virtual ticket" and we will share a recording after the event.

Featured Speakers

Dr. Megan Greenfield is a partner at McKinsey and an affiliated leader of the McKinsey Health Institute. She is a recognized leader in healthcare, health equity, and advancing equity in the workplace. Dr. Greenfield co-leads the McKinsey Boston office’s DEI efforts and has worked with regional and global organizations to design practical solutions for employers to drive diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Jeneé Osterheldt (Moderator) is a culture columnist who covers identity and social justice through the lens of culture and the arts. She centers Black lives and the lives of people of color. Sometimes this means writing about Beyoncé and Black womanhood or unpacking the importance of public art and representation. Sometimes this means taking systemic racism, sexism, and oppression to task. It always means Black lives matter. She joined the Boston Globe in 2018. A native of Alexandria, Virginia and a graduate of Norfolk State University, Osterheldt was a 2017 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where her studies focused on the intersection of art and justice. She previously worked as a Kansas City Star culture columnist.

Sarah Pickard, MD, MPH is a pediatric cardiologist and Senior Expert in real-world evidence and clinical epidemiology at McKinsey & Company. She leverages deep clinical and analytic expertise to help biopharma and healthcare clients accelerate innovation and address patient unmet needs. She also practices at the Benderson Family Heart Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Sarah received her MD from Stanford University and her MPH in quantitative methods from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her pediatrics residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship, and advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining McKinsey, Sarah was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and cardiologist at Boston Children’s. Her research focused on real-world evidence and decision and cost-effectiveness analyses.

Nandita S. Scott, MD, FACC received her MD from the University of Ottawa in Canada. She completed Internal Medicine and Cardiology Residencies at the Ottawa Hospitals and Heart Institute where she was also Chief Internal Medicine and Chief Cardiology Resident. She then completed an echocardiography and clinical research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007 she co-founded the facilitated the MGH Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program which has become a robust clinical, educational and research program. She is also the Director of Cardiovascular Medicine at MGH. She has received several awards for her contributions to women’s heart health including the 2020 Women’s Health Research Award from the Massachusetts Medical Society. In 2023 she was named the first Director of the Mass General Brigham Women’s Heart Health Program, with the goal of integrating education, clinical access and research across the Mass General Brigham system.