American Heart Association
The American Heart Association grew out of a set of smaller precursor groups. The primary precursor was the Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, formed in New York City in 1915, to study whether patients with heart disease could safely return to work. Several similar organizations formed or evolved in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago in the 1920s. Recognizing the need for a national organization to share research and promote findings, the American Heart Association was formed in 1924 by six cardiologists representing several of these precursor groups.
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.