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March 31, 2015 – Barbra Streisand will be joining the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center on the afternoon of Thursday, April 23rd. The award-winning actress and singer will be discussing her personal quest to end heart disease — the number one killer of women, through a national awareness campaign she launched with Ronald O. Perelman called #FighttheLadykiller. Ms. Streisand will be joined by Dr. Holly Andersen, the Director of Education and Outreach at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute of New York-­-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in a conversation moderated by Dr. Jennifer Ashton, the senior medical contributor to …

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 26, 2015) — To bring increased attention to the number one killer of women, the Women’s Heart Alliance (WHA) has announced the creation of a powerful heart disease awareness campaign, to be conducted in partnership with the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI). The outline of the new campaign, which will launch in 2015, was announced at the Clinton Foundation’s Fourth Annual Health Matters Activation Summit. British A. Robinson, CEO of the WHA, and Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, Scientific Advisor to WHA and Director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, announced a …