Just prior to the end of her term as president of the American Heart Association (AHA), Dr. Michelle A. Albert visited Magen David Adom’s National Operations Center and Marcus National Blood Services Center.
“My visit to Magen David Adom was really amazing,” said Dr. Albert. “I thank you for your work in placing defibrillators in public areas and for improving the chain of survival, especially in the last three years.”
Dr. Albert was impressed by MDA’s cutting-edge computer-aided dispatch center and its multiple levels of integrated treatment to shorten response times. She learned how rapid first-response units are launched in medical emergencies, with an emphasis on cardiac and resuscitation efforts.
For the past 15 years, MDA has served as a training center for AHA, providing CPR and other training to medical teams and civilians in Israel.
“The long-standing collaboration between MDA and the American Heart Association continues to deepen,” said Dr. Eli Jaffe, director of the Volunteers, PR, Training & International Relations Division at MDA.
“Besides being a professional body, we see the members of the association as friends, colleagues, and partners in the vision of making lifesaving knowledge and tools accessible to the entire population,” he said.
Dr. Albert, a professor in medicine, is the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology at the University of California San Francisco and is dean of admissions for its medical school.
