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Global ARCH Declaration the focus of this year’s World Heart Day

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Global ARCH Declaration the focus of this year’s World Heart Day

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October 2, 2023

Global ARCH loves to celebrate World Heart Day! This year we’ve created personalized posters for many of our members to use to help raise awareness of CHD and RHD, with links to our Declaration of Rights. We also asked our members to send us photos in support of the Declaration of Rights in their communities. Here are just a few, which we shared on our social media channels. A big THANK YOU to everyone who sent in photos!

Global ARCH

Amy Verstappen, President

Amy Verstappen has been a patient advocate and health educator since 1996, when her own challenges living with a complex heart defect led her to the Adult Congenital Heart Association, where she served as president from 2001 to 2013. She has served as an advisor to the Centers for Disease Control the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; and the International Society for Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease, and worked with congenital heart patient and professional groups throughout the USA and the world.  Ms. Verstappen received a Masters in Education in 1990 and a Masters in Global Health in 2019.