Education Service Provider for Health Practitioners: Rural Health Education Foundation

Minister for Health and Ageing to introduce Foundation Heart Disease program

The Hon Tony Abbott MHR, The Minister for Health and Ageing, will introduce the Rural Health Education Foundation’s December 7 broadcast on Women and Coronary Heart Disease.

Although men are almost twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease as women, it was the leading single cause of death of Australian women in 2001.

The Women and Coronary Heart Disease program will increase participants’ awareness of coronary heart disease and its impact on women.

Presenters

The panel for the broadcast includes::
- Professor Garry Jennings, Cardiologist & Director, Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne.
- Ms Vicki Wade, Senior Project Officer, Aboriginal Vascular Health Project, NSW Department of Health.
- Ms Margaret Flaherty, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Coordinator, Canberra Hospital ACT.
- Dr Susie Radford, Rural General Practitioner, Mount Tambourine QLD.
- Dr Norman Swan (Chair), presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National.

Further information

For more information about this program, see the program description.