A professor of medicine at Stanford University, Dr. Sanjiv M. Narayan focuses on research and patient care related to heart arrhythmias and serves as director of the Electrophysiology Training Program and co-director of the Electrophysiology Service. Apart from his work at Stanford, Dr. Sanjiv Narayan is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).
Earlier this year, the ACC entered into a partnership with several Chinese hospitals that will see doctors in the central and eastern provinces of the country receive training and education on how to prevent heart disease, as well as how to diagnose and effectively treat heart-related conditions. Most of the information will be delivered in lecture settings and other educational forums.
The educational effort is sponsored by the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation’s Every Heartbeat Matters and will target Kunming in Yunnan Province, Wuhan in Hubei Province, and Fuzhou in Fujian Province. Educators also will develop patient-related materials to help raise awareness about heart disease among the general population.
