Emmy Award-winning executive producer Helene Lerner hosts HEARTBEAT TO HEARTBEAT: WOMEN AND HEART DISEASE, an urgent wake-up call for women to improve their cardiovascular health. The documentary reveals useful
information on risk factors, symptoms and prevention of heart disease, while exploring the emotional impact of the number-one killer of women in the United States. HEARTBEAT also addresses the need for women to ask
their physicians questions and to reach out for support. Interviews include heart disease advocate Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) and Kathy Kastan, president of WomenHeart.
Actor Lucy Lawless, star of the television series, Xena: Warrior Princess, who encourages women to take charge of their well-being: “Being a warrior goes into all aspects of our life, especially women’s health….
We’re all trying to do everything all the time. And I think we have to take a really strong focus on putting our health
first, in every aspect—physical health, heart health, mental, emotional health.”
As the documentary underscores, diagnosis and treatment are critical to saving—and reclaiming—one’s life.
Heartbeat to Heartbeat: Women and Heart Disease is a production of Creative Expansions, Inc.
The program is presented by KCTS/Seattle Public Television and distributed by American Public Television (APT).
Executive Producer/Host: Helene Lerner.
Producers: Mona Kanin and Carey Graeber. Editor: Satoko Sugiyama. Director of Photography: Lloyd Handwerker.
Major funding for Heartbeat to Heartbeat is provided by Medtronic and by Omron Healthcare.
Heart disease is the number-one killer of women in the United States. This documentary is an urgent wake-up call that encourages viewers to take action towards improving their cardiovascular health.
The program provides useful information on risk factors, symptoms and prevention, explores the emotional impact of the disease, and reveals just how important it is for women to ask questions of their physicians and to reach out
for support when they need it. Featured are interviews with women living with heart disease—including Kathy Kastan, president of WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease—and with actor Lucy Lawless (Xena:
Warrior Princess), who encourages women to take charge of their well-being.
Sharing the latest information on women and heart disease are Dr. Susan Bennett, Clinical Director, Women’s Heart Program, The George Washington University Hospital, and Dr. Barbara Alving, Acting Director of the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute.
The program is hosted by Emmy Award-winning executive producer Helene Lerner.
Program Length: 26:46
NTSC letterbox version: Sunday, January 30, 2005,1400-1430ET /511 (APT
feed information for digital widescreen version to be
announced.)
Public Television Premiere: February 1, 2005
A Production of: Creative Expansions, Inc.
Presenting Station: KCTS/Seattle Public Television
Distributor: American Public Television (APT)
Credits:
Executive Producer/Host: Helene Lerner.
Producers: Mona Kanin and Carey Graeber.
Editor: Satoko Sugiyama.
Director of Photography: Lloyd Handwerker.
Underwriters: Major funding provided by Medtronic and by Omron
Healthcare.
Program Tie-ins: February is American Heart Month, and February 4 is
National Wear Red Day for Women (a time when people nationwide
take women’s health to heart by wearing red).
web sites: Informational sites on women and heart disease:
