Seated: Dr. Kenneth Connell, President HSFB; Governor General, HE Sir Elliott Belgrave; Standing: Fiona Anthony, CEO HSFB; Dru Symmonds, Honorary Life President; and Ena Harvey, Snr. Vice President HSFB.
GG receives Foundation’s newly elected officers
His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Elliott Belgrave, GCMG, KA received a visit from the new CEO, President and Vice-President and Honorary Director of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados on April 7, 2017, at 11 am.
The CEO and Directors of the Foundation expressed their gratitude to His Excellency for honouring the Foundation as its Patron, and for his dedication and commitment to the fight against cardiovascular disease in Barbados.
In sharing the vision of the Foundation for the future, the new President of the Foundation, Dr. Kenneth Connell, Deputy Dean & Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus; who is also an Associate Consultant in charge of the Resistant Hypertension clinic at the QEH, provided His Excellency with information on the status of the disease in Barbados and the Foundation’s focus on regular health checks.
Ena Harvey was introduced to His Excellency as the Senior Vice President of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados Inc. With a background and expertise in Agriculture and Food. Harvey will be lending support to the Foundation’s activities dealing with healthy lifestyles through consumption of nutritious, locally produced foods.
Fiona Anthony, the new CEO of the Heart & Stroke Foundation Inc. since January 9, 2017, engaged the Governor General in a lively discussion around the current programmes offered by the Heart & Stroke Foundation, which include the Cardiac Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation Programme, the Emergency Cardiac Care Programme, and the Screening Department. As a trained physiotherapist, she expressed her delight in having the opportunity to assist patients at the Foundation.
Special mention was made of the YUTE Gym which focuses on childhood obesity by providing education and advice, and promotion of regular exercise for the younger generation.
His Excellency expressed his confidence in the future of the Foundation, and thanked Honorary Life President, Dru Symmonds, SCM, JP, for his continued guidance and support for the work of the Foundation.