Beebe to host virtual cardiac checkup Feb. 24

In recognition of American Heart Month, Beebe Healthcare is inviting the public to take part in a free virtual webinar from 5 to 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24.

Thomas Trobiano, FNP-C, MAPC, Beebe’s new executive director of cardiovascular and neuroscience services, will welcome attendees.

Presenters will be cardiologists Rajinder Prasad, MD, FACC, and Kenneth Sunnergren, MD, FACC. Both doctors, who practice locally and are members of Beebe Healthcare’s medical staff, will discuss cardiovascular disease basics, but also the indirect impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on patients who suffer from heart diseases.

Prasad is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and nuclear cardiology. He received his medical degree from Indira Gandhi Medical College, and completed his residency and fellowship training at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Sunnergren is board certified in internal medicine. He received his medical degree and doctorate in physiology from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Virginia, and completed fellowship training in cardiology and molecular cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Both cardiologists will offer participants insights on cardiovascular disease and offer ways to optimize their current health status.

To register, go to portal.beebehealthcare.org/home.