American Heart Association
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. Originally formed in New York City in 1924 as the Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, it is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency.
Heart Failure Society of America
The Heart Failure Society of America is an American organization of heart failure experts who have an interest in heart function and heart failure. Founded in 1995, it provides a forum for experts and patients with the aim of reducing the burden of heart failure.
It has produced advice on categorizing heart failure and it produces guidelines including the 2010 comprehensive heart failure practice guidelines and the 2013 Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure. In 2018, a forum was created with people of various stages of advanced heart failure and specialists in cardiology.
Past presidents have included Mandeep R. Mehra, who took up the position in 2016.