Dr. Craig Sable will be giving the lecture on rheumatic heart disease for this course.
Dr. Craig Sable has a strong commitment to global health that includes extensive clinical outreach, multiple research publications in rheumatic heart disease (RHD), world wide telemedicine experience, leveraging his long standing role as echocardiography director, educational portfolio mentoring over 75 fellows and other trainees and leadership roles in national and international committees and writing groups. Dr. Craig Sable has collaborated with the medical team at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) at Mulago Hospital in Kampala Uganda, the largest public teaching hospital in Uganda, to improve the care of children with heart disease in Uganda. Dr. Sable has personally led over 20 medical/surgical missions to Mulago Hospital since 2003; the last eleven have focused on performing open-heart surgeries at the Uganda Heart Institute. He has also coordinated nine other surgical trips by teams from North America, Europe, India, and Asia. Nearly 1,000 children have received life-saving care, dozens of nurses and physicians have received training, and the foundation for a self-sustainable tertiary cardiac care program in East Africa has been established. This collaboration serves as the foundation for a very productive research partnership as well.
Dr. Sable provides senior mentorship for the most productive team of active RHD investigators in the United States, focusing their research on using echocardiography, task-shifting, highly portable technology and telemedicine to develop novel approaches to secondary prevention of RHD. RHD remains the most common cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in children and young adults in the world today despite being preventable. He currently serves as one of four Center Directors in the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Children’s Research Network; this center is focused on prevention of RHD.
