Events & Webinars
Webinar Series
HeartLife E3 Series (EP 6): Thriving with Cardiac Amyloidosis
E3 Webinar Series: Engage. Educate. Empower.
📅 May 6
🕛 12 AM PT | 1 AM MT | 2 AM CT | 3 PM ET | 4 PM AT
We are proud to continue E3: Engage, Educate, Empower, HeartLife’s webinar series designed to connect lived experience with trusted clinical expertise, all centered on the topics that matter most to our community.
This session focuses on cardiac amyloidosis, offering both practical understanding and deeper clinical insight. Together, we will explore how this condition is diagnosed, how it affects the heart, current treatment options, and emerging research that is shaping strategies for managing the condition.
Dan Lier is a former national basketball champion, mindset strategist, and speaker who brings both professional insight and lived experience to this conversation. Diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis in 2017, Dan will share his journey from diagnosis through day-to-day management, including what he has learned, how he approaches living with the condition, and the questions he continues to explore along the way.
Dr. Margot Davis, cardiologist and Director of the UBC Cardiac Amyloidosis Clinic, will provide a clinical deep dive into cardiac amyloidosis, including how it affects the heart, current management strategies, and what ongoing research is teaching us about care and outcomes.
The session will conclude with a moderated Q&A, giving participants the opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with the speakers.
Whether you are living with cardiovascular conditions, supporting someone who is, or looking to better understand your own heart health, this webinar offers education, insight, and empowerment you can take forward with confidence.
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Webinar Series
Bridging Heart Failure Care: Recognizing Signs and Symptoms, Reducing Risks and Managing Connected Conditions
Heart Failure Awareness Week English Webinar 2026, presented by Heart & Stroke and HeartLife Foundation
📅 May 5, 2026
🕛 9 AM PT – 10 AM MT – 11 AM CT – 12 PM ET – 1 PM AT
Heart failure is a growing health challenge in Canada, with over 800,000 people are currently living with the condition, and more than 130,000 new diagnoses each year. Heart failure places a significant burden on individuals, families, caregivers, and the healthcare system, and is the third leading cause of hospitalization in the country.
Aligned with Heart Failure Awareness Week (May 3rd–9th, 2026), this webinar—Bridging Heart Failure Care, will provide healthcare providers, people with lived experience, and caregivers with essential knowledge to recognize heart failure signs and symptoms, understand key risk factors, and appreciate how heart failure interacts with other conditions.
Participants will also receive a practical overview of the role of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), including how evidence-based medications improve survival, reduce hospitalizations, and enhance quality of life. The presentation will highlight ongoing efforts across Canada to bridge unified heart failure care and bring awareness for those living with this increasingly common condition.
Learning Objectives
- Enhance Awareness of Heart Failure Signs and Symptoms: Equip healthcare professionals, people with lived experience (PWLE), and caregivers with the ability to recognize early and advanced signs and symptoms of heart failure. This objective focuses on building confidence to identify changes promptly and take appropriate action to prevent hospitalizations.
- Address Risk Factors of Heart Failure: Provide participants with a clear understanding of the major modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for heart failure and how proactive management and monitoring can reduce heart failure risk and improve outcomes.
- Understand the Connection Between Heart Failure and Other Conditions: Help participants recognize how heart failure is interconnected with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and kidney disease. This objective emphasizes how these conditions interact, how they influence symptoms, and why integrated, team-based care is essential for people living with multiple health challenges.
- Understand the Role of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT): Increase awareness of the importance of guideline-directed medical therapy in heart failure care. Participants will understand how GDMT supports improved survival and quality of life, and how new heart failure guidelines assist both clinicians and people with lived experience in making informed, evidence-based treatment decisions.
Intended Audience
Health professionals across the continuum of care, people with lived experience of heart disease, VCI, stroke, or other vascular conditions such as heart failure, atrial fibrillation or hypertension, family members and care supporters of people with lived experience. Heart & Stroke staff, members of the public, and system leaders may also find this webinar informative and helpful. All are welcome to join.
This free event is an open invitation and may be forwarded to interested parties.
Language
This webinar topic will be presented in both English and French, on separate dates. If you would like to attend the webinar in French, please see this post here.
Can't make it to the live webinar?
A recording of this webinar and all our previous webinars are available on our YouTube webinars page and the Canadian Stroke Best Practices website, 1-2 weeks after the live webinar.
For any questions, please e-mail KTHP@heartandstroke.ca or Jenny@heartlife.com.
Webinar Series
Assurer la continuité des soins de l’insuffisance cardiaque : reconnaître les signes et réduire les risques de l’insuffisance cardiaque et prendre en charge les problèmes de santé connexes
Webinaire en français de la Semaine de sensibilisation à l’insuffisance cardiaque 2026, présenté par Cœur + AVC et la Fondation HeartLife
📅 7 mai 2026
🕛 9 h (HP) – 10 h (HR) – 11 h (HC) – 12 h (HE) – 13 h (HA)
L’insuffisance cardiaque est un problème de santé qui prend de l’ampleur au pays. On compte en effet plus de 800 000 personnes vivant avec cette affection et plus de 130 000 nouveaux cas sont diagnostiqués chaque année. Troisième principale cause d’hospitalisation au pays, elle impose un lourd fardeau aux personnes qui en sont atteintes, à leur famille, à leurs proches aidantes et aidants et au système de santé.
Ce webinaire s’inscrit dans le cadre de la Semaine de sensibilisation à l’insuffisance cardiaque, du 3 au 9 mai 2026. Il fournira les notions essentielles qui permettront aux prestataires de soins de santé, aux personnes ayant une expérience vécue et aux proches aidantes et aidants de reconnaître les signes et les symptômes d’une insuffisance cardiaque, d’en connaître les principaux facteurs de risque et d’en comprendre les interactions avec d’autres maladies chroniques.
Les participantes et participants recevront également une synthèse pratique sur le rôle du traitement médical conforme aux lignes directrices, notamment en quoi des pharmacothérapies fondées sur des données probantes améliorent le taux de survie et la qualité de vie tout en réduisant les hospitalisations. Enfin, la présentation mettra en évidence les efforts continus déployés à l’échelle du pays pour assurer la continuité des soins de l’insuffisance cardiaque et sensibiliser la population aux personnes atteintes de cette maladie de plus en plus courante.
Objectifs d’apprentissage
- Sensibilisation du public aux signes et aux symptômes de l’insuffisance cardiaque : outiller les professionnels de la santé, les personnes ayant une expérience vécue et les aidantes et aidants pour leur permettre de reconnaître les signes et symptômes précurseurs et graves de l’insuffisance cardiaque. Cet objectif vise à renforcer la confiance afin de reconnaître rapidement les changements et de prendre les mesures appropriées pour prévenir les hospitalisations.
- Prise en charge des facteurs de risque de l’insuffisance cardiaque : permettre aux participantes et participants de bien connaître les principaux facteurs de risque modifiables et non modifiables liés à l’insuffisance cardiaque, et de comprendre comment une prise en charge et un suivi proactifs contribuent à réduire le risque d’insuffisance cardiaque et à améliorer les résultats.
- Comprendre le lien entre l’insuffisance cardiaque et d’autres maladies : aider les participantes et participants à reconnaître comment l’insuffisance cardiaque est connexe à d’autres maladies chroniques, comme le diabète, l’hypertension et les maladies rénales. Cet objectif met l’accent sur la façon dont ces problèmes interagissent, comment ils influencent les symptômes et pourquoi il est essentiel de fournir des soins intégrés en équipe aux personnes atteintes de nombreux problèmes de santé.
- Comprendre le rôle du traitement médical conforme aux lignes directrices : sensibiliser à l’importance du traitement médical conforme aux lignes directrices dans les soins de l’insuffisance cardiaque. Les participantes et participants comprendront comment un traitement médical conforme aux lignes directrices contribue à améliorer le taux de survie et la qualité de vie, et en quoi les nouvelles lignes directrices sur l’insuffisance cardiaque aident les cliniciennes et cliniciens ainsi que les personnes ayant une expérience vécue à prendre des décisions thérapeutiques éclairées et fondées sur des données probantes.
Public cible
Ce webinaire s’adresse aux professionnels de la santé travaillant dans l’ensemble du continuum de soins, aux personnes ayant une expérience vécue de l’insuffisance cardiaque, aux membres de la famille ainsi qu’aux proches aidantes et aidants de ces personnes. Il pourrait également être instructif et utile à la population générale et aux responsables des systèmes de santé.
Il s’agit d’une invitation ouverte à une activité gratuite.
Langue
Ce webinaire sera présenté en français et en anglais, à des dates différentes. Pour le webinaire en anglais, veuillez consulter ce post ici.
Vous ne pouvez pas assister au webinaire en direct ?
Un enregistrement de ce webinaire, ainsi que de tous nos webinaires précédents, est disponible sur notre page YouTube et sur le site Web des Pratiques optimales de l'AVC au Canada, 1 à 2 semaines après le webinaire en direct.
Pour toute question, veuillez envoyer un courriel à KTHP@heartandstroke.ca ou à Jenny@heartlife.com.
HeartLife at HFUpdate 2025
We’re excited to share that HeartLife Foundation is on the ground May 2nd and 3rd at HFUpdate in Toronto! 🇨🇦
📍 Come visit us onsite and connect with Canada’s first — and only — patient-led heart failure organization.
We’re especially proud that four of our HeartLife members are speaking in the scientific program — bringing the lived experience of heart failure directly into the heart of clinical conversations.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Chilliwack, BC
Vancouver, BC
Stop by our booth to:
- Explore our free online courses through the HeartLife Academy
- Discover new tools and resources for patients and caregivers
- Learn how we’re advocating for patient-centered heart failure care — coast to coast to coast
Let’s shape the future of heart failure care together — because heart failure doesn’t stop at the clinic door.
Are you a clinician, researcher, or health professional committed to better outcomes and lived experiences? We’d love to connect with you!
Past Events
E3 Webinar Series: Engage. Educate. Empower. 📅 May 6🕛 12 AM PT | 1 AM MT | 2 AM CT | 3 PM
E3 Webinar Series: Engage. Educate. Empower. 📅 April 23🕛 9 AM PT | 10 AM MT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM
E3 Webinar Series: Engage. Educate. Empower. 📅 March 11🕛 9 AM PT | 10 AM MT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM
We’re proud to share the second episode of our E3 webinar series, featuring award-winning artist Jordan Danger and world-renowned health psychologist Dr. Samuel Sears! In
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HeartLife @ Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit We’re excited to share that HeartLife Foundation is on the ground April 25th and 26th at CWHH Summit
HeartLife at ACC.25 We’re excited to announce that HeartLife Foundation is on the ground this weekend at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session
🌍 Heart Month Webinar: A Cross-Country Collaboration for Heart Failure February is Heart Month, a time to bring awareness to heart health and the challenges
ENGAGE. EDUCATE. EMPOWER HeartLife Foundation warmly welcomes you to our 3rd Annual E3 Patient Day on September 29th, 2023! Dive in from 9am to Noon
My Broken Heart – Documentary Feature After a successful world premiere on March 26, 2023, at the VIFF Centre Theatre in Vancouver, we are pleased
MASTERCLASS @ Vascular 2023 Meaningful, impactful cardiovascular research must be grounded in the needs and priorities of patients, caregivers, and family members (People With Lived
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