VNA Sponsoring Free Breakfast

For Women’s Heart Health

The Newtown Visiting Nurse Association will welcome Dr Cary S. Passik, MD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Danbury Hospital, as its guest during a free breakfast event this weekend. The public is invited to join VNA members and Dr Passik for breakfast at Newtown Senior Center, 14 Riverside Road in Sandy Hook, on Saturday, February 2, at 9:30 am.

Heart healthy food will be served in honor of February being a month selected by the American Heart Association to raise awareness about women’s heart health. Dr Passik will address the breakfast group and will also be available for conversation and discussion. The breakfast is one of the VNA’s 90th Anniversary events that the Newtown group will be presenting during the year. Reservations are not necessary

Dr Passik brings more than 20 years of experience and interests in adult cardiac surgery that include extended arterial revascularization, surgical ventricular restoration for congestive heart failure, surgery for treatment of arrhythmias, valve repair and replacement, and surgical treatment of the elderly.

In 2005, Dr Passik was elected for membership in America’s “Best Doctors.” He is board certified in cardiothoracic and general surgery, and earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, and his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at the Mayo Clinic and foundation in Rochester, Minn.

Dr Passik previously served as associate section chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Yale New-Haven Hospital, and as an attending surgeon at the Hospital of Saint Raphael, both in New Haven. Dr Passik is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the society for Thoracic Surgery, and the Priestley Surgical Society of the Mayo Clinic.