Heart Month Kicks Off With Talk At St V’s

BRIDGEPORT — “Women & Heart Disease” will be presented at St Vincent’s Medical Center on Wednesday, February 1, at 7:30 pm. The free event, open to the general public, is co-sponsored by Regina L. Cozza Women at Heart and the Healthy Hearts Club, and will be held in the Hawley 2 Conference Room located in the Elizabeth M. Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, next to St Vincent’s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street.

Cardiologist Alon Ronen, MD, co-medical director of Women at Heart at St Vincent’s, is the featured speaker.

As a board certified cardiologist, with special training in nuclear cardiology and echocardiography, Dr Ronen will bring his expertise to a discussion of risk factors, prevention, and treatments as they apply to women.

Dr Ronen earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and performed a fellowship in cardiology as well as a residency in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.

A question and answer period will be included and light refreshments will be served. No registration is necessary Parking is free in the lot immediately in front of St Vincent’s. For further information, call St Vincent’s Cardiac Rehab Department at 203-576-5012.