Funds
Where your donations go - and what they're funding.
​Read about our funding partnerships and the incredible medical work we are supporting!
Preventative Cardiology Fund
Led by Dr. Douglas Jacoby, Chief of Cardiology
The University of Pennsylvania Hospital’s Preventive Cardiology program is one of the premier programs in the nation and is committed to providing robust and tailored cardiovascular care to the community. Their patients are matched with a team of multi-disciplinary providers who use the latest technologies to develop personalized risk assessment and treatment plans. Their providers hold expertise in a multitude of sub-specialties, from cardio-oncology to peripartum cardiovascular health. By addressing the complete and complex cardiovascular risk factors of each patient, they effectively treat and prevent cardiovascular health risk.
General Cardiology Fund
Led by Veterinary Specialists at PennVet
"The fund has supported studies of feline cardiomyopathy (including building a Registry for feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in collaboration with HUP, where the human equivalent registry is originating from. Cats are a valuable model of HMC and share common genetic mutations with people affected by HCM.
Furthermore that fund has helped support a pilot study in Boxers with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ARVC) , to understand the ultrastructural changes occurring in the heart muscle of affected dogs and to see if inflammation is a player in this disease. ARVC is another disease that shares a common presentation in humans and boxer dogs and is thus of great interest to both veterinary and human cardiologists. In fact, seed funding from our cardiology research accounts has allowed us to build collaborations with HUP and researchers at SMILOW that now allow us to offer novel treatments such as radiofrequency ablation in dogs with life threatening arrhythmias."
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- Dr. Anna Gelzer, Professor of Cardiology