Southern Arizona 2021 Heart Ball Co-chairs Joseph Alpert, M.D. and Qin Chen, PhD., and other supporters hope to raise at least $50,000 at the digital experience (tucsonheartball.heart.org), which is free and open to the public at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13.
By Loni NanniniSpecial to the Arizona Daily Star
The American Heart Association is giving a ball and you dont need a tux or a gown or even an invitation to attend.
The Southern Arizona 2021 Heart Ball has gone digital and for the first time ever, it is open to the community for free online at tucsonheartball.heart.org at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13.
Human beings are pack animals ... we love being together in groups. We will miss seeing folks face-to-face, but with the pandemic, that is not happening this year, said Dr. Joseph Alpert, co-chair of the event with his wife, Qin Chen. This digital event does present an opportunity for people around the country whether they are in Alaska or Portland, Maine to hear about all that the American Heart Association is doing and to participate in the online auction, so we are hoping people outside of Tucson will get involved. Hopefully this will help bring folks together across the country.
The couple are long-time supporters of the association, according to Alpert, a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center. He and Chen, the director of pharmacogenomics and professor of pharmacology at the UA who also performs cardiac research, received grant funding from the association for research early in their careers.
The associations grants often serve as seed funding to enable researchers to qualify for larger grants from the National Institutes of Health and other organizations, said Krystal Webb, communications director for the heart association in Tucson.
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