Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC, CNE
@rantocran
Nurse, Advocate, Researcher. Interests in #CardiovascularHealth #CardioMetabolicHealth #HealthJustice #SocialDeterminants #ChronicDisease #WearableDevices
We're live! Excited for this session!
Comprehensive article led by my brilliant colleague @rantocran. Addressing disparities is the most critical issue facing hypertension today. Hypertension Management to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Clinical and Community-Based Interventions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40271110/
Dr. @ChiadiNdumele kicks off the @HeartNurses #PCNA2025 pre-conference with an engaging talk on cardiovascular-kidney metabolic syndrome

Dr. @ChiadiNdumele leads an engaging talk on cardiovascular-kidney metabolic syndrome at the #PCNA2025 Annual Symposium ❤️#hearthealth @HeartNurses @ycommodore @ErinFerranti
And we're off! Cheers to 31 years of the Annual Cardiovascular Nursing Symposium! ❤️ Follow along and use the hashtag #PCNA2025 to share insights, photos, and fun memories from the symposia. 📸 #PCNA #HeartNurses
Great to spend the evening with the @hopkinsheart crew at the @heartmaryland Heart of Maryland and Night of Impact Proud to celebrate our star colleague of the evening @ycommodore receiving the Watkins-Saunders Award and leading us in carrying the AHA torch #HeartOfMD
Congratulations to @ycommodore who was awarded the American Heart Association 2025 Watkins-Saunders Award for her outstanding commitment to overcoming health inequities. ❤️ Through research and advocacy, she is improving lives locally and globally. @JHUNursing #ResearchSavesLives
Top sources of sodium in US and Asian American diets, presented by Dr. Cheng @AHAScience @AHAMeetings #EpiLifestyle25
Great way to improve your table salt! Presented by Dr. Jessica Cheng @AHAScience @AHAMeetings #EpiLifestyle25
@MingyuZhangPhD @BIDMC_Research @BIDMC_Medicine Presents his research on maternal exposures and long-term health @AHAScience @AHAMeetings #EpiLifestyle25!
Starting off the last day of #EPILifestyle25 with Dr. Lora E. Burke giving the David Kritchevsky Memorial Lecture. She is speaking on the Evolution of Evidence on Dietary Self-Monitoring Adherence in Obesity Treatment #AHAScience @AHAScience @JAHA_AHA #AHAMeetingReport


FAHA means so much more with the addition of my amazing colleague @rantocran!!! @AHAScience @AHAMeetings #EpiLifestyle25
Collin Popp from NYU presents a time-restricted eating for weight loss maintenance RCT pilot. Results among the 2 arms show the 10 hr window participants found it more acceptable & had better adherence then 6 hr window.
Dr. Liu from Emory shares protein scores association with MACE with data from the UK BioBank