Ten Years ProCOR

De: procor-bounces@healthnet.org [mailto:procor-bounces@healthnet.org]
Em nome de Bernard Lown, MD
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 27 de julho de 2007 15:53
Para: procor@healthnet.org
Assunto: [ProCOR] Dr. Vikas Saini joins Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation

Dear ProCor colleagues,
At this important point in ProCor's history--celebrating our tenth anniversary, launching the Ashanti-ProCor project to advance our understanding of how we can meet CVD information needs in Ghana and globally, and preparing to announce the first Louise Lown Heart Hero Award recipient, I am pleased to share with you the exciting and important news that Dr. Vikas Saini has been recruited as President of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation. As President, Dr. Saini will work with ProCOR and the Lown Foundation's other programs and will participate in the Lown Group's cardiovascular practice.
When ProCOR was founded a decade ago, the primary intent was to rouse awareness of the mounting cardiovascular epidemic emerging in developing countries as well as to focus on prevention as the only effective remedy. A promissory note for success was the cresting information revolution worldwide. Another element we hoped would make our approach unique was bringing the Lown model of cardiovascular care to global attention by sharing the decades of experience of the Lown Group. The Lown Group, by individualizing care and placing a premium on listening to the patient, has minimized costly interventions, empowered patients to take control of their own health and encouraged them to more readily adopt healthy lifestyles.
Now the right individual has joined with us to address this challenge. Dr. Saini brings extraordinary credentials to this role. Born in Hoshiarpur, a small town in Punjab, India, Dr. Saini came to the US at the age of four. His educational background includes a scholarship to Upper Canada College, and at the extraordinarily young age of 16 he was accepted to Princeton University. Dr. Saini graduated with honors from medical school at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and completed his medical residency at Baltimore City Hospitals, a program of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
With a strong interest in researching the physiology of mind-body interactions, Dr. Saini expressed the desire to study investigative techniques at our research lab in Boston. I offered him a fellowship at the Lown Laboratory at the Harvard School of Public Health, and he immersed himself in the research and clinical activities of the group. He later went on to co-found Aspect Medical Systems, Inc., where he served as its first Vice President of Research & Development and on its Board of Directors. As a founding partner of The Cardiovascular Specialists in Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA, Dr. Saini's experience includes a clinical cardiology practice specializing in conservative cardiovascular alternatives to invasive management. As Vice President of Primary Care, LLC, the largest network of independent primary care providers in Massachusetts, Dr. Saini worked with health plans to improve health care delivery within the network and to assess and develop the group's incorporation of health information technology.
Dr. Saini's research includes developing a hypothesis that anesthetic depth alters the body's inflammatory tone long term, which is currently being tested in clinical trials. Other research includes a clinical trial looking at post-operative inflammation and a project assessing the potential of certain dietary plant poly-phenols for cardiovascular prevention.
Dr. Saini complements all those who have helped sustain our vision over the years. Joining us is a vote of confidence; an affirmation of the Lown Group's potential.
Bernard Lown, MD
Founder and Chair, ProCor