Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Randal J. Thomas about the history and importance of cardiac rehab.Dr. Thomas is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with fellowship training in preventive cardiology. He attended the George Washington University School of Medicine and obtained internal medicine training at the Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also served as a chief resident for one year. He underwent fellowship training in preventive cardiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Before joining Mayo Clinic in 1999, Dr. Thomas was a faculty member of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois from 1992-1996, and was a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina from 1996-1999. Dr. Thomas has previously served as director of the Cardiovascular Health Clinic at Mayo Clinic and continues to serve as the medical director for the Mayo Clinic Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. He has served on the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Committee and as Project Director for Healthy Living Rochester, a community-based project aimed at helping to improve the health of people living in the Rochester area. He has served as president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and is currently chair of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology.Listen along as Dr. Thomas shares his wealth of knowledge.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on cardiac rehab. We've got a wonderful guest with us. We'll get to that in a second. My name is Stan Chandling. I'm one of the co-hosts for the show, along with my other Host for the show is Clarence Jones, who you'll be hearing from throughout this show as well.
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With that, I'd like to introduce our guest today is Dr. Randall Thomas, who's a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, Alex School of Medicine, and is a consultant in preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic. His clinical research has focused primarily on preventive cardiology.
We'll get into the aspects of prevention, the primary prevention and the secondary in our discussions, and also, obviously, in cardiac rehab. He's held many leadership roles in this arena. and is very, very well respected, not only at the state level, but also nationally as well. So Dr. Thomas, thank you. Thank you so much for being with us today.
Great to be here with you. Thanks.
Yeah. So, all right, let's start out first of all, cardiac rehab. Why don't you give us like a little bit of a historical perspective on cardiac rehab as it stands and, you know, kind of bringing us up to the present.
Fair. Now, it's a really good place to start. It may seem pretty logical to us today that rehabilitation after a cardiac event just makes sense because it does. It hasn't always made sense. And in fact, looking back into the like in the early 1900s, even into the mid 1900s, it was thought that activity in people with heart conditions was harmful.
And he was, in fact, advised against in most cases. A good example of a turning point occurred when Dwight Eisenhower was serving as president of the United States and he had a heart attack. And all of his specialists gathered around him and said, okay, you need to get bed rest for six months. You need to curl back on your work in the White House. There's no way you can run for reelection.
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