Matters of the Heart

Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula is offering a new lecture series — Matters of the Heart presented by the Tyler Heart Institute. 

Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon in the hospital conference rooms. No registration required.

January 5
Preventing heart disease: What you need to know
Terrance Moran, MD (cardiologist)

February 2 Heart disease: Why women are different from men
Soteria Karahalios, MD (cardiologist)

March 15 State-of-the-art CT scans and your heart health
Joan Frisoli, MD (radiologist)
Riaz Ahmed, MD (cardiologist)

April 5 Cath lab: From diagnostics to defibrillators
Mike Barber, RN, director of Cardiovascular Services
Steve Lee, MD (cardiologist)

May 3 Open heart surgery: What you need to know before and after
William Reed, MD (cardiothoracic surgeon)
Deena Haynes, coordinator of Cardiopulmonary Wellness

Knowledge is Power

Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon in the hospital's main conference rooms. No registration required. Programs are free and may be subject to change. Questions? Call 625-4505.

January 26 Surgical weight loss: What's new, what works
Mark Vierra, MD (bariatric surgeon)

February 16 Hypertension: The silent killer
Nicholas Chee, DO (cardiologist)

March 1 Overweight children: When should you worry?
Mark Vierra, MD (bariatric surgeon)
Pierre La Mothe, MD (pediatrician)

April 26 Women and cancer: Prevention, detection, treatment
John Hausdorff, MD (oncologist)
Susan Roux, MD (radiologist)

May 31 Keeping bones healthy
Christopher Meckel, MD (orthopedic surgeon)

June 21 Tracking the gastrointestinal tract: From heartburn to colon cancer
James DiSario, MD (gastroenterologist)