News and Events
Four ABC Members Help Lead Landmark NIH Trial Targeting a Disease That Disproportionately Affects Black Women
ABC members Demilade Adedinsewo, MD, MPH; Jeffrey Alexis, MD; Deborah L. Crabbe, MD; and Joyce Njoroge, MD are among the researchers contributing to REBIRTH — a landmark NIH-funded clinical trial investigating a potential new treatment for peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). PPCM is a rare but serious form of heart failure that occurs in the final month of pregnancy... Read More
Member Spotlight: ABC Emeritus Member Dr. Cleve Francis — Cardiologist, Country Music Pioneer, and Author
Few lives in American medicine speak as powerfully to the necessity of representation and resilience as that of Dr. Cleveland "Cleve" Francis Jr. An ABC Emeritus Member, cardiologist, recording artist, and health equity advocate, Dr. Francis has spent more than five decades navigating and dismantling systemic racial barriers in two of America’s most culturally rigid institutions: medicine and... Read More
Cytokinetics Announces Positive Topline Results from ACACIA-HCM, the Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Aficamten in Patients with Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) today announced positive topline results from ACACIA-HCM (Assessment Comparing Aficamten to Placebo on Cardiac Endpoints In Adults with Non-Obstructive HCM), the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of aficamten in patients with symptomatic non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
ABC Leaders Help Shape Landmark Federal Report on Maternal Heart Health
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published Protecting Maternal Heart Health: Prevention and Care Before, During, and After Pregnancy, a landmark report commissioned by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to address the leading cause of pregnancy-related death in the United States: cardiovascular disease. The Association of Black Cardiologists played a significant role... Read More
Dr. Karol Watson Adds Expert Voice to National Dialogue on New Dyslipidemia Guidelines
As the cardiovascular community continues to unpack the newly released 2026 ACC/AHA/Multisociety Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia, ABC is proud to highlight that former ABC Preventive Cardiology Committee Co-Chair Karol E. Watson, MD, is among the leading voices helping to contextualize what these guidelines mean for clinicians and patients. Dr. Watson, of the David Geffen School of... Read More
ABC Leaders Help Shape New Multisociety Cholesterol Guidelines
The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) is proud to highlight the contributions of its members to the newly released 2026 ACC/AHA/AACVPR/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines — a major update that will shape cardiovascular prevention and lipid management across the United... Read More
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