Synopsis:
Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans today. This
year roughly 1.5 million people will suffer a heart attack. One-third
of them will be fatal. The goals of A Change of Heart! are to educate
the public about breakthroughs in Cardiac Research and support
the Foundation's mission to help provide much needed funding for
future cardiac research projects. We will explore the potential
impact they will have on the future of heart disease and keeping
the heart healthy.
A Change of Heart! features three of the world's most renowned
cardiologists, Dr. Kanu Chatterjee M.B., F.R.C.P., Dr. Teresa
De Marco MD, FACC and Dr. William Parmley M.D., MACC, all pioneers
in both the understanding and treatment of heart failure.
With their guidance and the assistance of The Foundation for
Cardiac Research, this one-hour program will explore the topic
of heart disease, new research technologies and new treatments
that are now available. We will explore current research projects
and the potential impact they have on patients who will have longer
more productive lives.
To achieve this, A Change of Heart!, will profile and interview
Dr. Chatterjee, Dr. Teresa DeMarco, and Dr. Parmley, along with
several of their patients. The program will follow closely the
personal stories of the disease; it will share the compelling
journey of a patient through heart disease from early detection,
treatment and recovery, to a new way of life.
Mr. William Criswell, Foundation for Cardiac Research Board Member,
will serve as Executive Producer, helping coordinate all marketing
and production efforts and serve as the liaison on the Foundation's
behalf.
The Production Team
The Production Team (Bill Criswell, Executive Producer, Bill
Bayne, Director, & Chris Robson, Cinematographer) brings to
this project years of film and television experience. Their numerous
honors include awards at the San Francisco Film Festival, the
Time-Life "Freddy" Award for Medical Films, as well
as numerous Tellys, Pollys, and Addys. Their credits include network
television specials on ABC & CBS, cable events for FOX &
SONY Music, and a number of documentary films for the BBC and
home video release.
Technical Director
Dr. Teresa De Marco, MD, FACC, provided supervision, research
and medical accuracy for the original production. Dr. De Marco
is Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Director of the UCSF
Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Program and Medical Director,
Heart Transplantation. She is board certified in both internal
medicine and cardiovascular diseases. She is a Fellow of the American
College of Cardiology. She has performed extensive clinical research
with new drugs and electrophysiologic devices for the treatment
of heart failure and new drugs pulmonary hypertension. Her research
led to one of the first demonstrations that nerves are able to
re-grow in a transplanted human heart. Her current research focuses
on the use of sophisticated pacemakers to improve the failing
heart, for which she is regarded as a national expert. She is
also collaborating with UCSF basic scientists on a genomic project
to investigate the genetic basis of heart failure and arrhythmias.
Dr. De Marco serves on the editorial boards of the Journal
of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiac
Failure, and Congestive Heart Failure. She was one
of the co-founders of the Heart Failure Society of Northern California
and established the Bay Area Pulmonary Hypertension Consortium.
Dr. De Marco was recently named "One of the Best Doctors
in America" and has been named by San Francisco Magazine
one of the best cardiologists in the Bay Area two years in a row.
Narrator - Joseph Campanella
Actor Joseph Campanella, at age eighteen, became one of the youngest-ever
skippers in the wartime navy. He went on to attend Columbia University,
then began his acting career on the New York stage and in TV soap
operas. Over the next three decades he would portray Joe Turino
on The Guiding Light, Alec Fielding on The Doctors,
Dr. Ted Steffen on the nighttime TV serial The Doctors and
the Nurses and Senator Harper Devereaux on Days of Our
Lives.
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