Will you help influence scientific research?

We need to hear from consumers like you as the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) partner together on the future of research.

Your experience could lead to the next research study to improve heart disease and stroke treatment.

As an advocate we’ve asked you to speak out for increased funding for medical research and you’ve answered by contacting lawmakers and sharing your personal stories as survivors, caregivers, and loved ones touched by heart and stroke disease. Now we invite you to share your experience, the decisions made in determining your or your loved one’s treatment plans and the factors that influenced those decisions. If we better understand your experience it can help guide the research that will lead to better care tailored to the specific needs of patients.

If you’ve had a heart attack, suffered a stroke, or you know a loved one who has, your unique understanding could help guide research to solve un-met care challenges faced by individuals like you and improve heart and stroke treatment.

Here are the details:

• We are focused on un-met challenges faced by patients and caregivers like you. 
• To join this challenge, you’ll be asked to provide a written submission of your first-hand experience after a heart disease or stroke event.
• The story and description of the concerns you faced and the decisions you made should be personal and not a general case.
• A team of scientific professionals and patient representatives with expertise in heart disease and stroke will review your story. Learning more about issues and concerns important to your decision-making can help them improve experiences and outcomes for patients in the future.
• If your submission is chosen, you could win $1,000 and possibly

  help shape the future of cardiovascular research.

• All submissions must be received by June 8, 2016. Sorry: The application process is now closed. 

Please take this important challenge and share your insights. Your story matters. Take the challenge today!