Advancing Partnership and Promise in Japan
The Association's CEO, Nancy Brown along with the Association's Professional Members in Japan during the Association's Professional Member Networking Lunch at the 89th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society. (American Heart Association)
The Association continues to strengthen its global impact, playing a key role at the 89th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS2025), held 28–30 March in Yokohama, Japan. The event tackled issues facing the Asia-Pacific region — highlighting the need to improve gender-informed patient care, promoting recent advancements in resuscitation science, and announcing exciting developments that will drive cardiovascular care.
A particular highlight for Association members was the Professional Member Networking Lunch, featuring remarks from Association CEO Nancy Brown alongside international committee members Drs. Dhruv Kazi, Damodhar (D.P.) Suresh, and Nozomi Watanabe. Additionally, the Association collaborated with the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) on joint symposiums, exploring important topics like Anderson-Fabry Disease management, resuscitation science in cardiogenic shock, and driving gender-informed cardiovascular care through Japan's integration into the global Go Red for Women® campaign with the Japanese Circulation Association. Honored leaders, including JCS President Yoshio Kobayashi, MD, PhD, and Congress Chairperson Toyoaki Murohara, MD, PhD — among many others — emphasized the importance of international collaboration as well as the need to recruit and support young professionals entering the field.
The Association also celebrated its official launch of the Association’s certification pilot launch in Japan! Out of the 24 hospitals in five Asia-Pacific countries participated in Heart Failure A.S.I.A. program, several hospitals have already confirmed their participation in the Association’s Heart Failure Center Certification program, including inaugural participant Kyoto University Hospital. This groundbreaking certification will build upon existing regional success, since the launch of the Heart Failure Adherence to Science Implementation in Asia initiated in 2021. “Aligned with the Association’s vision of changing the future of health for all, this certification aims to reduce death and disability from cardiovascular diseases by enabling more facilities across the globe to deliver comprehensive, evidence-based heart failure care,” said Dr. D.P. Suresh, “The science is clear: hospitals and the patients they serve benefit from a coordinated heart failure program.”
Learn more now: Heart Failure Certification | American Heart Association International(link opens in new window)