The lecturer in our college, M. M. Moataz Al-Sabah, specialist in cardiovascular diseases and head of the Iraqi blood lipid clinics network, participated as a speaker in an international conference on cardiology in the American capital, Washington, for the period from September 5 to 7, where the official invitation was extended to the teacher by the Family Heart Foundation in the state. California .
In it, he talked about the awareness system that he launched in Iraq regarding hereditary cholesterol disease, and his establishment of the network of Iraqi blood lipid clinics, and then replicating this project outside Iraq in the Middle East and Africa region, which continued to work for several years. Al-Sabah also talked about his design of a health strategy, for the first time in the world, aimed at To completely eliminate hereditary hypercholesterolemia
The speaker’s efforts were greatly welcomed by those attending this major scientific forum, which is considered the largest annual scientific event in the field of blood lipids, one of the branches of the specialty of cardiovascular disease, held annually in the United States of America.