Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic is recognized as the world leader in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for cardiac care by U.S. News & World Report every year since 1995. The Section of Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation helps patients who may already have heart and vascular disease and those who are at high risk of developing it by designing lifestyle modification strategies to improve cardiovascular health. Programs include nutritional services, prescriptive exercise programs, stress testing, multiple cardiovascular risk reduction programs, peripheral vascular rehabilitation program in collaboration with Vascular Medicine, comprehensive cardiovascular care for women, and educational programs for patients and healthcare providers. Take advantage of this opportunity to get tips on heart healthy strategies and have your questions answered in a secure online setting by our experts; Julia Zumpano, Katherine Patton and Dr. Gordon Blackburn.

Julia Zumpano, RD, LD and Katherine Patton, MEd, RD, CSSD, LD are the dietitians in the Cleveland Clinic Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation Program. They have extensive experience in counseling adults and adolescents on nutrition strategies. You may have seen Julia and Kate on television and print discussing various nutrition topics.

Gordon Blackburn, PhD, is the Program Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Section of Preventive Cardiology and a Staff Member of the Cardiology Department, The Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is certified as a Preventive/Rehabilitative Exercise Program Director by the American College of Sports Medicine. His specialty interests include cardiac rehabilitation, exercise physiology, cardiovascular risk factor modification and graded exercise testing. As a research investigator, Dr. Blackburn has focused his clinical studies on the effect of exercise for patients with heart failure, on lifestyle change and behavior modification for patients with coronary artery disease, and on the ways in which exercise can improve heart rate recovery, among many other clinical research studies.