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Heart Disease And Your DNA: Ethnic Considerations In Managing Heart Disease

Reversing Heart Disease Naturally Summit

<h6>Joel Fuhrman, MD</h6>
All right. I'm thrilled to have Dr. Kim Williams here with us today. And let me tell you a little bit about him because it was very, you know, a tremendous insight. So this this summit we're offering people Dr. Williams of course is the current chairman of the Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, but he specializes in not just cardiology but cardio nutrition cardio rheumatology, cardio ephraim gee preventive cardiology and has a huge experience in cardiac radiology as well. And he's past president, the American College of Cardiology and past president of the American College of Nuclear Cardiology. So there's a lot of input he can give us today and plus the former chairman of the board of directors of the Association of Black Cardiologists. So this is gonna be a great conversation. He's also the founder of the urban Cardiology initiative in Detroit, Michigan aiming to reduce ethnic heart care disparities and continued community based efforts in Chicago at rush, including the heart program H. E A. R. T. program helping everyone assess risk today. 

It's a program, you know, screening for heart disease and intervening with education, nutrition and lifestyle changes to save lives. And he's over 600 research and guideline publications involved with online resources, even as input into movies and lectures all over the world and so and he's the founding editor in chief of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. So welcome him and of course he's a native of Chicago south side, he came out of the inner city school there and he was a avid tennis player, a former professional tennis player and national tennis coach and I got to get together with him to play some tennis then.

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Dr. Williams is Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Louisville. He specializes in preventive cardiology and cardiovascular radiology. He is a past President of the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Black Cardiologists. As Chief of Cardiology, he founded of the Urban Cardiology Initiative at Wayne State University, and the H.E.A.R.T. program (Helping Everyone Assess Risk Today) at Rush University, screening for heart disease and intervening with education, nutrition and lifestyle changes. He has a delegate for cardiology to the AMA for over 20 years and has served as a consultant for the FDA and CMS. He has over 700 publications, online resources, movies and lectures, most recently on the topic of cardionutrition. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention (https://ijdrp.org/index.php/ijdrp). A native of Chicago’s South Side, Dr. Williams has over 40 years of experience as an educator, researcher, and physician focused on prevention and health care disparities.

Kim Allan Williams, MD

Kim Allan Williams, Sr., MD, MACC, MASNC, FAHA, FESC

Joel Fuhrman, MD is a board-certified family physician and nutritional researcher who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is the president of the Nutritional Research Foundation and author of seven New York Times bestsellers: Eat For Life, Eat to Live, The End of Diabetes, The End of Dieting, The End of Heart Disease, Super Immunity, and The Eat to Live Cookbook. As one of the country’s leading experts in nutritional and natural healing, he has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, including The Dr. Oz Show, Live with Kelly, FOX, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, and Food Network. His own PBS television programs directly address the crisis of obesity and chronic disease plaguing America and have raised over 70 million to help support PBS stations nationwide. Dr. Fuhrman also operates the Eat To Live Retreat in San Diego, where people come from all over the world to recover their health. To learn more visit DrFuhrman.com, a great resource to make healthful eating.

Heart Disease And Your DNA: Ethnic Considerations In Managing Heart Disease

Joel Fuhrman, MD

Kim Allan Williams, Sr., MD, MACC, MASNC, FAHA, FESC

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Kim Allan Williams, Sr., MD, MACC, MASNC, FAHA, FESC