1.
Ten Key Facts on Heart Disease in Women
1. Every 4 seconds a woman dies of causes attributable to heart
disease1.
2. In 2009, one in 30 female deaths was from breast cancer, but one
in three was from cardiovascular disease2.
3. Each year new and recurrent MI and fatal CHD will impact an
estimated 380,000 women3.
4. Women aged 45 years and older are less likely than men of that
age group to survive a year after their first heart attack2.
5. Only about 33% of all percutaneous coronary interventions were
performed on women in 20102.
6. Almost two-thirds (64%) of women who die suddenly of coronary
heart disease have no previous symptoms4.
7. According to the survey conducted by Mosca et al. in 2006, only
55% of women knew that cardiac disorder is the leading cause of
death among women5.
Reference:
1. WHO fact sheet
2. Go AS, Mozaffarian D, Roger VL, et. al. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2013 update: a report from the American Heart
Association. Circulation. 2013; 127:e6-e245.
3. American Heart Association, Statistical Fact Sheet 2013 Update.
4. Roger VL, Go AS, Lloyd-Jones DM, Benjamin EJ, Berry JD, Borden WB, et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2012
update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2012;125(1):e2-220
5. Mosca L, Mochari H, Christian A, et al. National study of women‟s awareness, preventive action, and barriers to cardiovascular health. Circulation. 2006; 113(4):525-534.
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2.
Foreword
The epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in India is advancing
rapidly. The state of affairs has been challenged in the recent
years by a series of studies, which shows an alarming rise in
cases of Cardio Vascular Disease mainly in women.
The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) study reported estimated
mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) in India at 1.6
million in the year 2000. More women than men now die of heart
disease. CVD claims life of more women every year than all forms
of cancer combined.
Though CVD is the world‟s number one killer but still the facts
about Heart Disease are tragically absent from our contemporary
public dialogue.
Against this background, the summit is to bring about steadfast
management of CVD in women and proposing effective healthcare
solutions for growing concerns about the escalating health threats
that it poses.
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3.
Vedna Survey
The VEDNA survey “Visualizing the Extent of heart Disease in INdiAn
women”, intended to map the trends of cardiovascular diseases (CVD)
in Indian women, covered almost 600 health care professionals of
metros and non-metro cities from across the country, exposed shocking
facts around women‟s heart health in India• 54% of cardiologists observed a 16-20% of overall growth rate in
cardiovascular diseases among women in the last five years.
• 41% of the doctors claimed an alarming 10-15% growth rate in
cardiovascular diseases among the age group of 20-40 years, the
category of women which was earlier considered „protected‟ from
heart ailments.
• 83% of the doctors believed that Indian women are ignorant about
heart diseases.
• 76% of the doctors observed that women die of heart diseases due to
late presentation to the hospital.
• 66% of the doctors cited that CVD death amongst women was due to
late diagnosis.
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4.
Queen of Heart
Dr. Sameer I Dani
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
Director
Department of
Cardiology
Apollo Hospitals
Ahmedabad
Gujarat
Senior Consultant and Head of
Internal Medicine,
Clinical Director for Research
and Academics
Fortis Escorts, Jaipur
Dr. P Ramesh Babu
Dr. Brian Pinto
Managing Director & Chief
Cardiologist
Dr. Ramesh Cardiac and
Multispeciality Hospital
Vijayawada
Andra Pradhesh
Chief of Cardiology
Holy Family Hospital and
Director of Cardiac
Catheterization laboratory
Mumbai
Dr. C. G. Bahuleyan
Dr. J. P. S. Sawhney
MBBS, MD(General
Medicine), DM(Cardiology)
Prof and head of Cardiology
Ananthapuri Hospitals and
Research Institute
Thiruvananthapuram
MD, DM, FESC, FACC, Sr. Consultant
Cardiologist, Chief of Clinical &
Preventive Cardiology, Chairman
of Dept. of Cardiology, Member
Board of Management & Member
of Research & Ethics Committee.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Prof. Khurshid Iqbal
Dr. B. Somaraju
Professor and Head,
Department of Cardiology and
Chairman, Medicine & Allied
specialties and Dean, Faculty
of Medicine. Sheri Kashmir
Institute of Medical Sciences
Srinagar, Kashmir
MBBS, MD (CARDIOLOGY)
Chairman and Chief of
Cardiology, CARE Hospitals,
The Heart Institute at
Hyderabad.
Program Directors
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5.
Queen of Heart
Dr. Anjan Lal Dutta
DR. S T Yavagal
Consultant Cardiologist
Peerless Hospital & Prof.
of Medicine Vivekananda
Institute of medical Science
and Hospital
Kolkata
Director, Professor and Head of
the Department of Cardiology,
Kempegowda Institute of Medical
Sciences, Bangalore.
Dr. Tiny Nair
Consultant Cardiologist,
Head, Department of cardiology
PRS Hospital
Trivandrum
Kerala.
Dr. Narender Om
Prakash Bansal
Professor and head of
Cardiology department, Grant
Medical College and J J Group
of Hospitals
Dr. Ravi R Kasliwal
Chairman, Clinical &
Preventive Cardiology,
Community Outreach and
Education, Medanta-The
Medicity, Gurgaon.
Dr Mullasari Ajit
Sankardas
M.D., D.M. (Cardiology),
Director - Cardiology,
Institute of Cardio Vascular
Diseases, Madras Medical
Mission, Chennai
Dr. Ashok Jain
Consultant Interventional
cardiologist
Narayana Hrudayalaya
Hospital
Jaipur
Dr. R C Ahuja
Dr. C N Manjunath
Former professor and Head,
Department of medicine
& Former Director KGMC
King George’s Medical University,
Lucknow, India
Professor & Head of
Cardiology, Director
Sri Jayadeva Institute of
Cardiovascular, Sciences &
Research, Bangalore
Program Directors
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6.
Queen of Heart
Hon Mr. U T Khader
Dr. K Srinath Reddy
Health Minister of
Karnataka
President
World Heart Federation
President, Public Health
Foundation of India
Belonging to an intensely devoted political
background, Mr. Khader has already made his
mark as an efficient political personality of the
Ullal Constituency. A lawyer by profession, Mr.
Khader is serving as member K.P.C.C., Additional
Chief Organizer Karnataka Pradesh Congress Seva
Dal and President Ullal Block Youth Congress,
2001. In past he has successfully led the congress
campaigning in the assembly, parliament, gram
panchayat and local bodies, has served as
President District NSUI and Vice President state
NSUI; He has also been elected as MLA from Ullal
constituency of Mangalore in 2004. Mr. Khader
also has a great interest in social work;
K Srinath Reddy has worked extensively to
promote cardiovascular health, tobacco
control, chronic disease prevention and healthy
living. Formerly head of the Department of
Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, Prof. Reddy is a global leader in
preventive cardiology. He has been unanimously
elected as President, World Heart Federation
(2013-14). In 2003 he was awarded the WHO
Director General‟s Award for Outstanding Global
Leadership in Tobacco Control by World Health
Assembly, UK. In the same year, he was honored
with the Padma Bhushan.
Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Dr. H Sudarshan Ballal
Chairman & Managing Director of
Biocon Ltd.
Chairman of Medical Advisory
Board and Managing Director
of Manipal Health Enterprises
Ltd
Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is highly respected
in the corporate world and has been voted by
Nature Biotechnology as the Most Influential in
Bio-business person outside Europe and USA.
Her pioneering efforts in biotechnology have
drawn global recognition for India. She chairs
Karnataka‟s Vision Group on Biotechnology. She
presently serves on the Advisory Council of the
Government‟s Department of Biotechnology
where she has been instrumental to chart a progressive growth path for Biotechnology in India.
She is also a founder member of the Society for
the formation of “Institute for Stem Cell Biology
and Regenerative Medicine”. She was awarded
the prestigious national awards, PADMASHRI in
1989 and PADMA BHUSHAN in 2005.
List of Dignitaries
Dr. H. Sudarshan Ballal has received many
gold Medals in his graduation as well as post
graduation. He has the distinction of being one
of the few to be triple Board certified in Internal
Medicine, Nephrology & Critical Care. Dr. Ballal
has been an active member of Indian Medical
Association and was elected President of Indian
Medical Association, Dakshin Kannada. He has
published several papers in reputed journals.
He has been honored with many awards. He had
set up the first postgraduate training Centre in
Nephrology in Karnataka and performed the first
cadaver kidney transplantation in Karnataka.
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7.
Queen of Heart
Dr. S S Ramesh
Dr. H Sudarshan
Organising Secretary,
Cardiological Society of
India, Bangalore
President
Vivekanand Foundation
Dr. Ramesh is organising secretary Cardiological
Society of India and
chief Cardiologist,
Bhagavan Mahaveer Jain Hospital Heart Centre.
He is Chairman & Managing Director of the Vivus
Group. He was the first cardiologist in Karnataka
to do a Coronary Angiogram (1983) and the first
to do a Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) (1989).
He has been instrumental in establishing the
Bangalore Chapter of Cardiological Society of
India (1983) and is credited with the founding of
four Cardiology departments in Bangalore viz.
The Departments at St. John‟s Medical College,
PDH Sindhi Hospital, Yellamma Dasappa Hospital
and at the Mallya Hospital.
Dr. H.Sudarshan has achieved remarkable feats
in the 33 years he has worked with the Soligas.
The Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra,
which he set up in 1981, has blossomed into
a sustainable tribal development program. In
1986, he started Integrated Rural Development
Project- Karuna trust. He is the founding member
and president of Vivekananda Foundation. Dr.
Sudarshan has held many positions in his career,
prominently as the chairman of the Task Force
on Health and Family Welfare organized by
Government of Karnataka. He was awarded the
Rajyothsava State Award for social work in 1984
by the Government of Karnataka. In 1994, he
was lauded with the Right Livelihood Award by
Right Livelihood Award Foundation in Sweden. In
2000, he was bestowed with the Padamshree.
Anupama Shashank Ambe
Dr. Hema Divakar
Chairperson, Women Leadership
Council, IBM
President Federation of
Obstetric and Gynaecological Society of India
Ms. Anupama Shashank Ambe started her
career with British Telecom Middle East,
Africa, and India in 1996. Anupama has vast
industry experience in Global IT Infrastructure
Administration. Prior to IBM, she was the
General Manager, Remote Infrastructure
Managed Services, Microland.She has Started
Programs like Tech Gurukul, Cunae and Center
of Excellence. Currently she has been driving
several Programs like One IBM in India, Client
Centric Delivery Programs, Improved Client
Interactions, etc to drive better client centricity
across Delivery Centers. She is also leading
Gender Diversity at IBM India with programs like
Sales Elan, Retain and Attract Women into IBM
India. She is a trained Master Black Belt and has
also received Women&rsquot;s Choice2010Women in Leadership award.
List of Dignitaries
She is the President of FOGSI (Federation of
Obstetric and Gynaecological Society of India).
Dr Hema is a practicing OBGYN consultant with
over 30 years of experience. She is acclaimed as
an outstanding clinician, a keen researcher and a
great trainer. She is the leading Indian Specialist
in High Risk Pregnancy Care and Fetal medicine.
Established“DIVAKARS SPECIALITY HOSPITAL”
in 1990 in Bengaluru, the first private hospital
in the State to obtain an ISO 9002 certification
for quality standards. I have a keen interest in
High Risk Pregnancy Care. And have established
speciality clinics for
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, Fetal malformation,
Diabetic Obstetric clinic, Myoma clinic and Well
Women clinic.
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8.
Queen of Heart Summit
Program
DAY 1- Saturday, 27th July, 2013
Session 1: 1830 hrs - 2010 hrs
Key areas of discussion:
• Coronary heart disease in Indian women: Customizing prevention and treatment approaches
• Coronary artery disease in women: Overcoming therapeutic and diagnostic challenges
• Women‟s Heart Disease - A big public health challenge in the new millennium
• Empowering & Engaging Communities, families and individuals in preventive lifestyle changes
Session Flow
1830 hrs - 1900 hrs
Registration
Registration of the delegates and handing
over of Delegate kit
1900 hrs - 1905 hrs
Introductory Address
Ms. Malati Iyer, Times of India
Dr. S.S. Ramesh, Organising Secretary,
Cardiological Society of India, Bangalore
1905 hrs - 1915 hrs
Pace Setting Lecture
1915 hrs - 2000 hrs
Panel Discussion
• Coronary heart disease in Indian women:
Making a case for a customized treatment
strategy
A Public Health Action Plan to impede
Heart Disease and Stroke in women
1 Dr. S.S. Ramesh, Organising Secretary,
Cardiological Society of India, Bangalore
2 Dr. H Sudarshan Ballal, Medical Director &
Chairman - Medical Advisory Board, Manipal
Hospitals
Panelists
3 Dr. Hema Divakar, President Federation of
Obstetric and Gynaecological Society of India
4 Dr. H Sudarshan, President, Vivekanand
Foundation
5 Ms. Anupama Shashank Ambe, Chairperson, Women Leadership Council, IBM
2000 hrs - 2010 hrs
Program
Q & A Session
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9.
Queen of Heart Summit
Program
DAY1- Saturday, 27th July, 2013
Session-2: 2010 hrs - 2120 hrs
Session Flow
2010 hrs - 2015 hrs
Welcome Address
Ms. Malati Iyer, Times of India
2015 hrs - 2020 hrs
Lighting of the lamp
Ashwini Nachappa, Accomplished former
2020 hrs - 2030 hrs
Launch of the Queen of
Heart Campaign
athlete and Indian film actress
athlete and Indian film actress
Ashwini Nachappa, Accomplished former
• Formal launch of campaign
• Release the QOH Brochure
Dr. K. Srinath Reddy
2030 hrs - 2045 hrs
President, World Heart Federation and President
Public Health Foundation of India
Keynote Address
• Cardiovascular disease in Indian women sounding the bugle
Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
2045 hrs - 2100 hrs
Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd.
Special Address
• Heart disease in women: A major thrust
area for India‟s healthcare industry
Mr. Sudeep Sheru, Senior Director and Head
Cardiology, Biocon Limited
2100 hrs - 2115 hrs
Biocon Queen of Heart:
• Presentation on Queen of Heart Campaign
Call to action
• Showcasing of Queen of Heart Public
Awareness Video
2115 hrs - 2120 hrs
Vote of thanks
2120 hrs
Networking Dinner
Program
Ms. Manjari Chandra, Consultant,
Heal Foundation
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10.
Queen of Heart Scientific Symposium
DAY2- Sunday, 28th July, 2013
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Scientific Symposium
Time
0900 hrs - 1400 hrs
Topic
Chairperson
09:00
Welcome note
Speaker
Dr. Praveen R
09:00-09:25
Burden of Cardiovascular diseases in Women:
Trends and Challenges
09:25-09:40
Hypertension:
A closer look at women‟s heart
09:40-09:55
Is Diabetes a different disease in women?
Dr. J P S Sawhney
Dr. R C Ahuja
Dr. Mullasari Ajit
Debate: What does the evidence say?
Who are at risk: Men or Women?
Dr. M P Tripathy
Dr. Anjan Lal Dutta
Dr. Sameer Dani
Dr. Brig Mohan
Dr. V S Baldwa
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
Dr. J P S Sawhney, Dr. Rajeev Gupta,
Dr. Tiny Nair
Men
Speakers
Speakers
Society
Dr. Devanu Ghosh Roy
Dr. Ramesh Babu
Tobacco
Tobacco
Dr. Devanu Ghosh Roy
Dr. Ramesh Babu
Obesity
09:55-10:45
Women
Society
Obesity
Dr. Joy Thomas
Dr. Mahesh Shah
Dr. J P S Sawhney
Risk score Assessment
11:15-11:30
Time
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10
12:10-12:25
Dr. Khurshid Iqbal
Dr. S T Yavagal
Dr. N O Bansal
Let’s clear the Controversies:
Oral contraceptive pill
Vitamin D and Cardiac diseases
10:45-11: 15
Power Break
Topic
Chairperson
Myth or reality?
Gender considerations in coronary heart disease:
Understanding the clinical symptoms or
undertreating them
Speaker
Dr. V C Chauhan
Dr. Sunil Baldwa
Dr. Ramesh Babu
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
Congestive Heart Failure:
Dr. Anjan Lal Dutta
A Woman‟s Heart Fails Differently from a Man‟s heartDr. R C Ahuja
Where are we?
Blood Lipids
Coronary Artery Calcium
Dr. Tiny Nair
Dr. N O Bansal
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
12:25-12:45
Clinical and Angiographic characteristics of
premenopausal women presenting with Acute
Coronary Syndromes
12:45-13:00
ECHO Corner:
“A young female with chest pain”:
Case presentation
13:00-13:20
Gender Influenced decisions for Interventions:
Catheterization and Stenting in women
13:20-13:40
Way forward
Program
Dr. Kunhali
Dr. A K Pancholia
Dr. Asha Mahilmaran
Dr. M P Tripathy
Dr. Ashok P Jain
Dr. Brian Pinto
Dr. C N Manjunath
Dr. C N Manjunath
Dr. Khurshid Iqbal
Dr. Sameer Dani
Dr. Brian Pinto
Dr. V K Srinivas
Program Directors
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Dr. Rakesh Gupta
Dr. Mullasari Ajit

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