Newswise — February is American Heart Month, we suggest the following sources for your stories:
Cardiovascular Health
Dr. Renzo Cecere Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Surgical Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).Expertise: Surgeon who recently implanted Canada's first successful mechanical heart Dr. Nadia Giannetti Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Medical Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).Expertise: Heart failure, heart transplant, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy, mechanical hearts
Lifestyle/ Diet Choices
Laurette Dubé Professor, Desautels Faculty of ManagementExpertise: Internationally respected professor in consumer and lifestyle psychology and marketing, food and health specialist, and founding chair and scientific director of the McGill University Integrative Health Challenge Think Tank. The role of comfort foods in alleviating negative emotions; which ones men choose, which ones women choose and why.
Baerbel Agnes Knaeuper Professor, Department of PsychologyExpertise: How individuals make food-related judgments, compensatory behaviour, the effectiveness of crash diets, cardiovascular psychophysiology.Recent study: "Efficacy of Self-Dieting Rules"
Louise Thibault Professor, School of Dietetics and Human NutritionExpertise: Smart food choices, food choices to maintain healthy weight, good food choices for healthy hearts.
Smoking Cessation
John Kayser Nurse clinician and coordinator of the MUHC Smoking Cessation Program. Expertise: Methods to conquer nicotine addition. Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. Smokers are 2"4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers.
The other heart/Valentine's Day:
Relationship Studies/Romance
John Lydon Professor, Department of Psychology Expertise: Commitment and its relation to stress, well-being and the self
Professor Brian Lewis Chair, Department of HistoryExpertise: Sexual Diversity Studies, women's, gay, lesbian, and queer studies
The Chemistry of Love
Ariel Fenster Professor, Department of ChemistryExpertise: When people fall in love, they have the "right chemistry" . Emotions are ruled by an array of chemicals such as phenylethylamine (found in chocolate!) or some brain chemicals such as dopamine or oxytocin.
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