{"id":9086,"date":"2013-02-08T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2013-02-11T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:24:00","slug":"heart-health-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/video\/heart-health-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Health Webinar: The Benefits of TM Practice in Promoting Cardiovascular Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Heart1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Heart1\" width=\"158\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9115\" \/>On January 19, healthcare professionals around the country tuned in online to watch <em>Transcendental Meditation, Stress, and Heart Health<\/em>\u2014a webinar featuring two leading experts on the TM technique\u2019s benefits in preventing and treating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Caregiver\/Resources\/WhatisCardiovascularDisease\/What-is-Cardiovascular-Disease_UCM_301852_Article.jsp\">cardiovascular disease<\/a>. Hosted by the TM Health Professionals Association, this powerful presentation was led by <strong>Robert Schneider, MD, FACC,<\/strong> director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention and <strong>Cesar Molina, MD, FACC<\/strong>, a board-certified cardiologist practicing in the Palo Alto area.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was originally offered for physicians and other health professionals\u2014especially those treating patients suffering from stress-related disorders and cardiovascular disease\u2014the video archive offers useful heart health information for anyone with an interest in the topic. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the hour-long webinar archive by clicking on the video link below.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/giV9TyzXeKg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"349\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/giV9TyzXeKg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>In the video above, Dr. Schneider and Dr. Molina share cutting-edge research and expert perspectives on a wide range of topics, including the dramatic findings from a recently published, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/\">NIH<\/a>-funded heart health study at the Medical College of Wisconsin. You&#8217;ll also learn about: the clinical experience in a large cardiology practice in which patients are regularly referred for TM instruction; how referrals for TM instruction can be handled efficiently and professionally in a busy medical practice; and more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6180\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Schneider5.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dr. Schneider5\" width=\"150\" height=\"160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Schneider, MD<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>About the Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Schneider, MD, FACC<\/strong>, is the most widely published researcher on the TM technique; his team has received over $25 million in grant support from the National Institutes of Health for research on <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/oZ9gcO \">Transcendental Meditation<\/a> and cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5942\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/molina_new1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"molina_new\" width=\"157\" height=\"211\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5942\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Molina, MD<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cesar Molina, MD, FACC<\/strong>, is medical director of the South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA. Dr. Molina has referred the greatest number of patients for instruction in the TM technique of any physician in the U.S. and has the largest clinical experience in this area. He is also medical director for the Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education in the San Francisco Unified School District.<\/p>\n<p>This TM Health Professionals Association webinar was the second in a series of online presentations geared towards educating health professionals about the applications of the TM technique in healthcare practice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 19, healthcare professionals around the country tuned in online to watch Transcendental Meditation, Stress, and Heart Health\u2014a webinar featuring two leading experts on the TM technique\u2019s benefits in preventing and treating cardiovascular disease. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/128zItD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,61],"tags":[147,69,32],"class_list":["post-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-health","tag-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}