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I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, so it's something that I can relate to.