Dr. Arun Chockalingam, PhD, presented the 3rd Annual Yetta and Jack Levit Distinguished Lecture in Heart Health on Friday, November 18, 2016 at the St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre. His presentation was entitled “Cardiovascular Disease Prevention – A Necessity for Realising Global Health”. The lecture was attended by members and invited guests of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences as well as some members of the Levit family.
A reception followed in the Research Centre atrium.
Dr. Arun Chockalingam, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FIACS is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, as well as professor of epidemiology and medicine and director, Global Public Health Education & Training at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.