Go Red for Women event promotes heart-healthy living

The fashion show models were also survivors who shared their stories of triumph over heart disease.

July 8, 2014

The American Heart Association’s annual Go Red for Women Luncheon and Fashion Show drew more than 150 men and women to the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center for a heart-healthy lunch, health screenings, educational seminars, a silent auction and fashion show. Local heart disease and stroke survivors modeled clothing from Wilmington Country Store, sharing their inspiring stories of survival and triumph.

The Go Red for Women movement focuses attention on the threat of heart disease and stroke in women while creating a call to action for all women to commit to living a heart-healthy lifestyle.

The color red was everywhere at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center for the Go Red for Women annual event.

Margaret Ervin-Willis and her daughter Kristen Savino share a tearful story about Savino's birth with a rare heart condition. Doctors said she wouldn’t live to her teen,s but Kristen, now 29, says she is proof that medical miracles begin with research. — Margaret Ervin-Willis and her daughter Kristen Savino share a tearful story about Savino’s birth with a rare heart condition. Doctors said she wouldn’t live to her teens, but Kristen, now 29, says she is proof that medical miracles begin with research.

Velma P. Scantlebury, M.D., FACS, associate chief of transplant surgery at Christiana Care, browses through the silent auction items at the Go Red for Women luncheon.

Photo gallery: Go Red Luncheon and Fashion Show

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