Heart Failure Awareness Days 2018in Italy

M.F. Piepoli, MD, PhD, FESC, FHFA

HF Awareness days

• 5th consecutive year of participation by Italy

• >40 centres, 530 pharmacy stores in all regions and major cities

• Healthy life style promotion

• Focus on diet, physical activity, smoking cessation

• Initiatives distributed throughout the entire month of May 2018 to favour a greater impact and participation

• Endorsement by the Italian Federation of Cardiology

• Well-received and highly considered by the scientific community and the lay population

• HFA brand promotion

• Unrestricted support by Novartis and ViforPharma

Foggia

Milano

Monza

Bologna

FiorenzuolaCastel SG

Trieste

Pisa

Roma

Napoli

Mazara

Piacenza

Firenze

Ponte d’O

Gallarate Tradate

Gorizia

Reggio E.

Cecina

Cosenza

Catania

Cava dei Tirreni

Ferrara

Marsala

Pordenone

Arezzo

Brescia

Bari

2018

European

Heart Failure

Awareness

Days

40 Italian

Cardiology

Centres

530

Pharmacy

Stores

Cagliari

Padova

530 pharmacy stores distributed in all regions

Key points:

• Public events / open clinics

• Newspaper / website coverage

• Political engagement

• Printed materials for patients

• Patient engagements

Key points:

• Public events / open clinics

• Newspaper / website coverage

• Political engagement

• Printed materials for patients

• Patient engagements

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy)

Public Conference

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy: public conference

Piacenza

http://www.ilpiacenza.it/video/l-epidemia-del-secolo-

solo-a-piacenza-tre-ricoveri-al-giorno-per-

scompenso-cardiaco.html

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy

Open clinics

Key points:

• Public events / open clinics

• Newspaper / website coverage

• Political engagement

• Printed materials for patients

• Patient engagements

https://www.facebook.com/scompensocardiaco/videos/vb.425798214248899/571414483020604/?type=2&theater

Channel 5. Interview

www.iltuocuore.comA dedicated website for 42 centres

www.iltuocuore.com. National programme

www.facebook.com/scompensocardiaco/

Newspaper coverage

Key points:

• Public events / open clinics

• Newspaper / website coverage

• Political engagement

• Printed materials for patients

• Patient engagements

Participants:

- Prof S Nodari, Chair, Heart Failure Working Group, Italian Cardiac Society

- Dr A Mortara, Chair, Heart Failure Area, Hospital Cardiology Ass.

- Prof M Piepoli, HFA Executive Board

- Dr Silvia Barbieri, Major of the City

- Ing Baldino, Director Local Health Authority

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy. Piacenza

May 8th, National Press Conference

Press Conference

Key points:

• Public events / open clinics

• Newspaper / website coverage

• Political engagement

• Printed materials for patients

• Patient engagements

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy

Leaflets for general public

Key points:

• Public events / open clinics

• Newspaper / website coverage

• Political engagement

• Printed materials for patients

• Patient engagements

http://www.ilcittadinoonline.it/benessere-e-salute/giornate-dello-scompenso-cardiaco-punto-informativo-alle-scotte/

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy.

Patient engagement. May 7th

Walk for your heart

http://www.comune.mazaradelvallo.tp.it/portale-informazioni/ufficio-stampa/portavoce/bilancio-positivo-delle-giornate-europee-dello-scompenso-cardiaco

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy

Show cooking

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy. Piacenza

Patient engagement. Half Marathon

Walk for your heart

Patient engagement: Piacenza, 20th May

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy. Piacenza

School teaching.

2018 HF Awareness Day in Italy.

Student education

www.lacittadipadova.it/scompenso-cardiaco-controllo-gratuito-pressione/

https://www.nove.firenze.it/in-provincia-di-firenze-le-giornate-dello-scompenso-cardiaco.htm

http://www.itacanotizie.it/convegno-3/

www.ilnuovogiornale.it/.../2723-scompenso-cardiaco-iniziative-per...

Questionnaire on the awareness on heart failure symptoms and signs (#2723 collected): analysis ongoing

Lombardy

1 Piergiuseppe Agostoni (Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Milan)

2 Marco Ambrosetti (Clinica Le Terrazze, Cunardo)

3 Giuseppe Di Tano (Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Cremona)

4 Maddalena Lettino, Daniela Pini (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan)

5 Andrea Mortara, (Policlinico di Monza, Monza)

6 Fabrizio Oliva, Maria Frigerio (Ospedale Niguarda, Milan)

7 Savina Nodari (Ospedali Civili, Brescia)

8 Gianfranco Parati (Univerisita’ Bicocca, Milan)

9 Roberto Pedretti (Istituto Scientifico Maugeri, Tradate)

10 Alberto Schizzarotto (Azienda Ospedaliera, Gallarate)

Veneto 11. Maria Antonietta Cicoira (Ospedale Borgo Trento, Verona)

Friuli VG

12. Luca Gri (Ospedale San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone)

13. Andrea di Lenarda (Centro Cardiovascolare FVG, Trieste)

14. Roberto Marini (Ospedale, Gorizia)

Emilia-Romagna

15. Corinna Armentano (Ospedale Civile, Fiorenzuola d’Arda)

16. Daniela Aschieri (Ospedale Civile, Castelsangiovanni)

17. Carlo Cagnoni (Ospedale Civile, Bobbio)

18. Alessandro Fucili (Arcispedale S. Anna, Ferrara)

19. Alessandro Navazio (Ospedale Civile, Reggio Emilia)

20. Alessandro Rosi (Ospedale S Giacomo, Ponte dell’Olio)

21. Stefano Urbinati (Ospedale Bellaria, Policlinico S Orsola, Bologna)

22. Giovanni Villani, Ursula Corvi (Ospedale G da Saliceto, Piacenza)

Tuscany

23. Franco Cosmi (Ospedale S. Margherita – Valdichiana)

24. Michele Emdin, (Ospedale Fondazione Monasterio, Pisa)

25. Massimo Milli, (Ospedale Santa Maria Nuova, Firenze)

26. Elio Venturini, (Ospedale di Cecina)

Acknowledgments: Participating Centres

Abruzzo

27. Maria Penco, (Università degli Studi di L'Aquila)

Lazio

28. Nadia Aspromonte (Ospedale S. Filippo Neri, Rome)

29. Francesco Fedele (Policlinico Umberto I, Rome)

30. Angela Beatrice Scardovi (Ospedale Santo Spirito, Rome)

31. Maurizio Volterrani (Ospedale S. Raffaele Pisana, Rome)

Puglia

32. Matteo Di Biase, Michele Correale (Azienda Osped. Univer. Foggia)

33. Massimo Iacoviello / Pasquale Caldarola (Policll. Osped. San Paolo Bari)

34. Rocco Lagioia (Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Cassano, Bari)

Campania

35. Edoardo Bossone (Ospedale Cava dei Tirreni)

36. Antonio Cittadini, Francesco Giallauria (Policl. Federico II, Univer., Naples)

37. Maria Angela Losi (Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria, Naples)

Calabria

38. Gianfranco Misuraca (Ospedale dell'Annunziata di Cosenza)

Sicily

39. Michele Gabriele (Ospedale Abele Aiello, Mazara del Vallo)

40. Michele Massimo Gulizia (Ospedale Garibaldi Nesima, Catania)

41. Salvatore Novo (Ospedale Policlinico Universitario, Palermo)

42. Gaspare Rubino (Ospedale P. Borsellino, Marsala)

43. Nidal Tourkmani (Casa di Cura, Catania)

Network of Rete dei Farmacisti Preparatori

GRAZIE

Massimo F Piepoli, MD, PhD, FESC, FHFA

m.piepoli@gmail.com