Organizers of the Wear Red Canada event are inviting women across the Greater Sudbury area to join in the annual celebration of Wear Red Canada for Women's Heart Health.
The event is to take place o0n Thursday Feb. 13, 2025, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Vale Cavern at Science North in Sudbury.
Tickets to the event are free, but friends and supporters are asked to click on the link to reserve tickets and get more information. Women are encouraged to dress in their favourite red outfit to attend.
The organizers said it is important to be aware that heart disease is the number one killer of women worldwide and the leading cause of premature death in Canadian women.
Much of what we know about the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease is based on research of men only. Due to this lack of knowledge in women's heart disease, women are wrongly treated and diagnosed with heart disease. One half of women who experience a heart attack don’t even recognize their symptoms, said the news release.
The objective of Wear Red Canada is to increase awareness of the risks and symptoms specific to women and encourage preventative action to improve women's heart health outcomes.
The Sudbury event will feature engaging keynote speakers, each of whom have a different aspect of women's heart health to share.
The panel of speakers in Sudbury is to include:
-Roxanna Righi (Obstetrician/Gynaecologist): Journeys of the Heart: Navigating
Women's Health Through Menopause.
-Kaitlin Duncan (Anesthesiologist/Perioperative Medicine): Your Heart, Your
Surgery: Empowering Women's Perioperative Care.
-Jenine Saunders (Manual Therapist and Fascial/Movement Educator): Moving with
Heart: The Role of Functional Movement in Women's Cardiac Health.
-Kari Kostiw (Nurse Practitioner/Heart Failure Clinic): Broken Hearted: Breaking
Barriers and Stigma to Heart Failure in Women.
-Lisa Gauthier (Registered Dietician): Fueling the Heart: Empowering Women and
Girls with Heart-Healthy Nutrition.
-Northern City of Heroes: Be Courageous: Learn Hands-Only CPR.
The Wear Red Canada Sudbury event could not have been made possible without the
generous support of our sponsors and supporters:
● Northern City of Heroes
● Innova Wealth Partners
● TESC Contracting
● Ames Remax Team
● Gold Leaf Financial Group Inc.
● NEOMO Occupational Health
● Wear Red Canada