The guiding principle of the Ventura Heart Institute is that the best treatment of cardiovascular disease is its prevention. The Ventura Heart Institute's mission is to provide patients with evidence-based strategies for the optimal and cost effective assessment and management of cardiovascular risks.

Our last free public education program, "The Prevention of Heart Disease", was held on Saturday morning, 9 February 2008, at the Spanish Hills Country Club in Camarillo, California.  We were fully enrolled with about 300 attendees.  The responses to this and our prior Symposia have been spectacularly positive with accolades to the faculties and content.  A review of the Symposium is available by clicking here.  The Ventura Heart Institute co-sponsored this program with the Community Memorial Health System.  Click here to see this latest agenda.

We have a professional education symposium for healthcare providers on 13 September 2008 in Ventura, CA.  Two free public programs are planned for later in 2008 and in early 2009.  Please come back to this page for further details on the agendas, speakers and venues.

We believe that lifestyle modifications with proper nutrition, weight management, exercise and judicious use of appropriate medications used to expert-guided standards provide patients the greatest probability of a good outcome.  We provide cardiovascular screening for risk assessment, education programs and clinical research protocols in our quest to provide the most up-to-date options for our patients.  The American Heart Association just updated its guidelines for prevention of heart disease in women.  You can download a copy of the complete recommendations by clicking here or clicking on the summary in Dr. Loh's Second Opinion column on the subject.

You may access Dr. Loh's prior Second Opinion newspaper columns and editorials by clicking on the link at the top of this page entitled "Second Opinion Columns".  You may contact Dr. Loh by e-mail by clicking here.

One important suggestion on the role of prevention is the Advance Healthcare Directive brought into tragic focus by the officious intermeddling of Congress.  The autonomy of the individual should overide political agendas.  Click the link above to learn what steps one can take to prevent a dignified end-of-life decision from becoming a legal circus.