Major Minority Physician Associations Come Together Alliance Signifies Closer Ties and Partnerships Between Doctors to Achieve Health Equity for the Underserved WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, during Minority Health Month, five national organizations dedicated to health advocacy for patients from the major racial/ethnic minority populations in the U.S. have come together to form. The Association…
John Fontaine, MD, MBA, FACC, FHRS It is a privilege and honor to serve as the 17th President of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). The ABC is a non-profit organization comprised of nearly 2000 national and international members. The organization was founded in 1974 by Dr. Richard Allen Williams, an author and Harvard University…
A brief history of ABC’s early outreach in churches, barbershops and beauty salons The idea of getting a haircut and having your blood pressure (BP) checked has garnered much conversation and recent debate in both the Twittersphere and the media since its presentation at the ACC.18 Scientific Session in Orlando last month. As indicated in…
The American Heart Association (AHA) has announced that Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease at the University of California, San Francisco has received a 2018 Merit Award, totaling $1 million to be distributed over five years. Each year, the AHA’s…
ABC and ACC collaborated on a two-phase initiative focused on disparities in access to treatment among minorities and underserved populations. The first phase of this initiative was a survey among ABC and ACC members which addressed current issues of access to cardiovascular therapies and perspectives of disparities that exist in patient care. The second phase…
Richard F. Gillum, MD, MS, Howard University College of Medicine, recently published “The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Diaspora” in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Abstract: For over four decades the National Medical Association (NMA) and the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) have sought to bring to national attention the disparate burden…