GENESTAR STUDY

Heart disease and stroke cluster strongly in families, particularly when the events occur at a young age. Siblings of people with premature coronary disease have an excess risk of having a coronary disease event that is 2-12 times greater than the general population. This well documented fact became the foundation on which the GeneSTAR Study was founded in 1982, designed by Dr. Diane Becker while still a doctoral student in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health... Our focus is to provide a resource to leverage, commercialize and expand our programs, and capabilities and secure partnerships to generate new revenue and funding streams in support of our mission. Additionally, we help drive and execute our regional and national strategy to target employer and business-to-business networks to drive patient care to JHHS clinical sites... Our goal is to achieve the best possible quality of life for the child and family, and to support the child and family through their..

Primary location: Baltimore United States