.National Wear Red Day was marked on February 2, 2024 during American Heart Month.
The Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center team going red.
On National Wear Red Day, February 2, 2024, UConn Health's campus along with its proud workforce members donned red to raise greater awareness of the importance of preventing and managing heart disease, especially heart attack and stroke, which remain the leading cause of death in both men and women in the U.S.
Thanks to everyone for wearing red, including our employees below, and a special thanks to our facilities team at UConn Health for lighting up our campus buildings red to raise awareness to the wider Farmington community.
This February 2024 in honor of American Heart Month, UConn Health's campus is lighting-up red to raise greater awareness about the importance of preventing cardiovascular diseases (UConn Health Photo/Tina Encarnacion).UConn John Dempsey Hospital's UT5 ortho-surgery floor nurses:
Ashley Morytko, QA Specialist, Nanette Pink, Ortho-Surg UT 5 Nurse Manager, and Rachel Meehan, APRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Second-year dental students at UConn Health wore red on Feb. 2, 2024, National Wear Red Day, to raise awareness of heart disease.Clinical Research Center team wearing red. From left: Catherine Jahne, Research Assistant 3, Heather Vargas, Research Nurse, Elizabeth Laska, Nurse Manager, Megan Clement, Clinical Assistant 3, Sheila Thurlow, Research Facilitator, and Sumith Abraham Varghese, Research Nurse.Cathy Cassineri shared team photo from cardiology.UT 5 Ortho-Surgery hospital floor team.Calhoun Cardiology Center's Medical Assistants Glenda Nieves (left) & Natalia Estevez (right).Medical Assistants in cardiology from left to right are Glenda Nieves, Savi Bhikhdhari, Connie Simmons, and Natalia Estevez.Laura Didden of the dental school's research office.UT 5 Ortho-Surgery hospital floor team during a CN3 presentation by RN Susan Blasi on Heart Health for Healthcare Workers. RNs are: Emma Ardry, Rachel Greenwood, Susan Blasi, Ligia Luangpraseuth, Assist Nurse Manager Julian Forbes-Samuels.Jennifer Pickert, RN of neurology, neurophysiology, NPH Clinic, wears red for her nieces with congenital heart disease. They are young warriors that continue to battle against their disease she says.Ortho-Surgery UT5 celebrating National Go Red Day.Caibin Zhang of the UConn School of Dental Medicine.Jennifer Dailey of Oral Pathology.
Dr. Sophia Saeed and Trish Avolt of UConn School of Dental Medicine.Drs. Donna Paolella and Sarita Arteaga of UConn School of Medicine.Dr. Ellen Eisenberg of UConn School of Dental Medicine.UT 5 Ortho-Surgery hospital floor team.
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