The 2009 Heart-Brain Summit presented an exciting program to a packed conference room of more than 150 physicians and scientists on October 15 and 16 at the Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center in Chicago, IL.
This year's Summit focused on the link between depression and cardiovascular disease. This area has been getting much attention, with a number of publications appearing in the peer reviewed literature in addition to mass media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal. Our outstanding faculty included the experts in this field.
The Heart Brain Summit, hosted by the Bakken Heart-Brain Institute at Cleveland Clinic, each year awards a junior investigator with the Young Investigator Award. Our thanks to Mr. Tom Peterson for his continuing support of this award.
The 2009 Young Investigator Award recipient is Rebecca Dekker, MSN, PhD (c) from the University of Kentucky in Louisville. Ms. Dekker's winning abstract, entitled "Change in Depressive Symptom Status Predicts Health-related Quality of Life in Pts with Heart Failure" was announced at the Summit, chosen from four outstanding finalists' abstracts.
The Heart-Brain Summit is an annual CME course sponsored by the Bakken Heart Brain Institute at Cleveland Clinic, in cooperation with the Society for Heart Brain Medicine.
