Dil Chahta Hai: How to Keep your HEART HEALTHY in South Asians

Описание: In today's video Dr. Hafiza Khan and Dr. Sheila Sahni discuss the epidemic of heart disease and its importance to the South Asian community. Tune in to learn more about heart health and tips to start including in your lifestyle!


Hafiza Khan M.D. is a Board Certified Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist. She trained at UCLA School of Medicine and graduated 28 years ago! She was a Resident and Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at UCSF. She completed her Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She has been in practicing for 19 years in the Dallas area while juggling raising her sons and her married life. She performs catheter ablations, pacemaker, and defibrillator implants for patients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias. Her sons are now 23 and 20 years old .
During her free time, she micro blogs on Instagram as @heart.beat.doctor where she educates about the heart, heart health, science, and life as a working Mom in a specialty that has very few women.

Sheila Sahni, M.D., is an interventional cardiologist at Sahni Heart Center, part of Hackensack Meridian Health Medical Group in Clark, NJ. She is affiliated with Hackensack-Meridian Heath in NJ and Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. She graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies and received her medical degree from Georgetown University’s School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and her fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology at David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA where she served as Chief Fellow. She is an active member of the American College of Cardiology Women in Cardiology Committee and the Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions Women-in-Innovations Committee. Her clinical interests include prevention, lipid management, women’s heart disease, high-risk complete revascularization and radial interventions. She has been a pioneer in the use of social media for cardiovascular disease education, patient awareness and advocacy. Dr. Sahni regularly appears in media. Most recently, she appeared as a physician expert on TBS & TNT’s groundbreaking medical series, Chasing the Cure, a show using television as a platform to crowdsource a diagnosis for patients with unsolved medical mysteries. SahniHeartCenter.com


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