Canadian congenital heart alliance

Please check out the public service announcement developed by the Heart Defects Society of Windsor and Essex county by clicking HERE.   For more information about their organization, please click HERE.    

Thanks to the Heart Beats Children’s Society of Calgary, CCHA is featured in two more articles in their terrific newsletter Keeping the Beat.   There is an article about CCHA’s Beat Retreat camp on page 10 and an article about camp …[more]

The Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) in the U.S is hosting two webinars in January: Post-Mustard and Senning in the adult CHD patient, and Eisenmenger Syndrome in the ACHD patient. Please click on the PDFs for more information, and the …[more]

Dear CCHA supporter, With 2011 coming to a close, we want to let you know what we’ve been up to. It’s been a busy restructuring year for us – revisiting where we’ve been successful and not as successful, and where …[more]

On Saturday May 14, 2011, Team CCHA and The Slow Pokes walked in the Cardiac Health Foundation of Canada’s “Walk of Life”.  Our goal was to raise $6,000 for the Canadian Congenital Heart Alliance; to fund important programs such as …[more]

Maude Abbott (1868-1940) was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada’s earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease. She was one of the first women to obtain a bachelor’s degree in arts from McGill University. …[more]

We’ve updated our English/French brochure (only the English side is shown here). If you are with a congenital heart clinic in Canada and you’d like us to send you some for your patients and their families please contact me by …[more]

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Political Action (An excerpt from Dr. Gary Webb’s article The Long Road to Better ACHD Care, published in the journal Congenital Heart Disease, 2010.)   “Successful political action will be critically important to the improvement of …[more]

The following is part of a series of in-depth and personal interviews with cardiology leaders to find out what makes them tick, how they feel about the future, and what lessons they have learned during their exceptional careers. Dr Jane …[more]

Campfires, canoeing, climbing wall and craziness – participants of the Third Annual Beat Retreat had it all. A record number of adult CHD patients – aged 19 to 61 – turned out for this year’s three-day camp retreat.   “Once …[more]