Meet Dr. Abinash Achrekar

 

Dr. Abinash Achrekar has been a volunteer for the American Heart Association for quite some time. He got involved because of his dedication to helping raise awareness around the prevention and treatment of heart disease. For the past three years he has served on the Albuquerque Executive board, and he currently serves as the board President.

In 2015, Dr. Achrekar and his wife dove a little deeper into their volunteer roles and decided to chair the heart ball, a heavy lift for any Volunteer. That summer, Dr. Achrekar and the board also spearheaded an effort to begin figuring out how New Mexico could be the 28th state to add CPR as a requirement for graduation from high school. He decided this was something that he was passionate enough about to try and move at a policy level, even though there had been some challenges around this issue for quite some time within the state of New Mexico. Dr. Achrekar has been involved in multiple meetings focused on CPR in schools at both the Albuquerque and state level, and has offered his expertise as a cardiologist to the effort for the past 9 months. He is excited and hopeful that 2016 will be the year that CPR becomes a graduation requirement in New Mexico for high school students, helping to prepare thousands of graduates with the knowledge and skills to save a life.

Dr. Achrekar has been committed to advocating for AHA because most cardiovascular disease is preventable, whether through policy, programs or best practices. He is committed to a New Mexico free of cardiovascular disease, and he truly believes that a collected well informed voice is the way to achieve that goal.

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