DVT Awareness Month Kickoff Event
March 7, 2007, NY-Presbyterian Hospital

*For more information on DVT, please visit www.preventdvt.org * 2007 DVT PSA

DVT Awareness Kickoff Event at NY-Presbyterian Hospital

Melanie Bloom, wife of late NBC correspondent David Bloom, speaks about losing her husband to DVT while covering the war in Iraq in 2003

Melanie is the National Spokesperson for the Coalition to Prevent DVT

I share my story about being diagnosed with blood clots in my leg and both of my lungs in October, 2006

About 2 million Americans are diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis each year

DVT kills 300,000 Americans each year, more than AIDS and breast cancer combined

(L-R) Dr. Duiguid, NY-Presbyterian, Melanie, NYP President Dr. Herbert Pardes, Dr. Nicholas Morrisey, Clinical Research Dir, and BB

Melanie and daughter, Ava, take part in the DVT Awareness by Design campaign

Patients, health care professionals and communities across the US are designing socks to show what DVT awareness means to them

For more info about DVT Awareness by Design, visit www.preventdvt.org

Little Ava with her award-winning sock!

VDT Clip Broadcast PSA