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University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center

CENTERED ON LIFE… FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE

The University of Michigan is concentrating its cardiovascular efforts on excellence in education, research, and clinical care, through forming a united team, focused on addressing the nation’s leading killer. Cardiovascular disease kills more Americans than the next five leading causes of death combined. Michigan has the nation’s 8th worst coronary death rate. However, U-M has plans to change that by creating the future of cardiovascular care at the new U-M Cardiovascular Center (CVC).

The new CVC will be built on the site of the "Old Main" hospital in the heart of the U-M medical campus, connected via artery-like passages to the University Hospital and C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital. The Center combines the strengths of U-M’s cardiovascular research, education and patient care programs to allow the "chain of science" to flow seamlessly from bench to bedside. Coordination of the Center’s many multi-disciplinary services, with open communication and side-by-side research and clinical care facilities, will speed the transfer of research breakthroughs into clinical practice in an unprecedented time frame. All of which will allow us to more efficiently attack the entire spectrum of cardiovascular disease -- from high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks, heart failure and stroke to aneurysms, arrhythmias, heart valve disease and heart-related birth defects.

This is a major endeavor that requires major support. U-M has launched the Cardiovascular Center Fundraising Project to raise $50 million. The success of this project will make it possible to create an internationally recognized center…prominent in scientific research and discovery, committed to excellence in education, and known for state-of-the-art, compassionate care that meets and exceeds our patient needs.

The theme of this project is "Centered on Life", because at the center of everything we do is: Helping people to live healthier lives.

Please join us in becoming Centered on Life.

For more information on the Cardiovascular Center, please visit our web site. To learn how you can help, please contact:

 

Fritz Seyferth
Office: 615.7452
Cell: 417.2500
Email: fritz@umich.edu