American Heart Association Missouri
Be Ready to Save a Young Life
Each year, more than 23,000 children experience cardiac arrest outside the hospital—40% during sports. The American Heart Association, St. Louis is recruiting youth-serving organizations ready to commit to cardiac emergency preparedness and help save young lives.
Help Your Students Become Heart Heroes
Two 9-year-old students are heroes after learning the lifesaving skill of CPR through Kids Heart Challenge. Watch Logan and Magnolia's stories, and help your students become heart heroes. Register your school today!
Communities with Heart
The American Heart Association has made blood pressure kiosks available at various community locations across Missouri and Kansas City.
Featured Recipe: Simple Persian Salad
A bright, fresh Mediterranean inspired side salad that pairs perfectly with grilled chicken—and makes the most of summer’s garden bounty.
Community BP Resources
The American Heart Association is adding blood pressure monitoring stations and loaner devices to libraries and other public spaces across the state centered on equity, placing resources in areas with the highest prevalence of hypertension and barriers to care.
Let us share your story
Are you a survivor? Help us raise awareness for cardiovascular disease and stroke through your story.
For 11-year-old hockey player, breathlessness signaled a struggling heart
While running laps during physical education class at his school in St. Joseph, Missouri, Jake Burnam passed out. After several tests and an abnormal electrocardiogram, it was discovered the then-11-year-old son had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an inherited condition in which his heart muscle became abnormally thick, making it harder to efficiently pump blood.
United Way
The American Heart Association St. Louis is honored to be a part of a network of 160+ organizations supported by United Way of Greater St. Louis.
He Felt Fine. His Artery Said Otherwise.
Events in Your Area
Kansas City Heart & Stroke Walk
Location: National WWI Museum and Memorial
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2026 - 08:00 AM
RegisterIn Your Community
The American Heart Association is committed to driving equitable health impact in Missouri through key priority areas: CPR, hypertension control, rural health and food insecurity. Equity is at the center of our work and it will continue to guide all that we do.
Through our focus on these key impact areas, and with collaboration among local organizations, sponsors, businesses and others that serve the community we are working to improve the health and well-being of all Missourians while saving and improving lives.
Our legislative and regulatory priorities help to mitigate risk factors and protect survivors in communities across the country. We support the enactment of evidence-based public policies that lead to longer, healthier lives.
Public policy advocacy is an essential strategy used by the Association to affect necessary and sustainable policy, system and environmental changes that help Missourians build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Our efforts in Missouri communities are focused on ensuring quality-systems of care, increasing nutrition access, promoting health equity and furthering early care and education.
President
Dr. Ravi Johar
United Healthcare
Chair
Joel Perkins
Forvis Mazars
Members
Dr. Opeolu Adeoye
BJC HealthCare/WashU Medicine
Patrick Aylward
KPMG
Sonia Deal
Three Steps Home
Tom DiFranco
Enterprise Mobility
Stephanie Koch
RGA
Dr. Ravi Johar
United Healthcare
Dr. Mark Huffman
WashU Medicine
James Perry
Edward Jones
Patti Crimmins-Reda, MSN, RN
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Treena Sturgeon, DO
Mercy
Bala Vanukuru
Centene Corporation
Jess Zimmerman
ARCO
Board President
Dr. Natalie Jayaram
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Board Chair
Carla Duryee
Duryee Consulting
Leadership Development Chair
Kalinda Calkins
Bank of Oklahoma
Members
Patricia Beatty
Mindy Brissey
MRB Strategies
Brian Burkett
JE Dunn Construction
Tim Castaneda
Amazon Web Services
Jayson Cuba
The Miller Group
Duryee Consulting Phil Eilers HNTB
Dr. Nia Jenkins
University Health Women's Care Center
Dr. Steven Kaster
Spira Care
Adriana Martinez
ECCO Select
Stephanie Moss
SYMBII Holistic Health
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Marvin Szneler
Amanda Nichols
VP, Development
(913) 652-1902
[email protected]
Angie Galindo
Senior Vice President,
Western Region
(913) 652-1905
[email protected]
Deb Debusk
Development Director,
Heart Challenge
(913) 652-1903
[email protected]
DeEtta Lee
Sr. Marketing Communications Director
(913) 652-1914
[email protected]
Erin Gabert
Sr. Community Health Director
(913) 652-1909
[email protected]
Jackie McMahon
Sr. Development Director,
Gala
(913) 652-1904
[email protected]
Jenny Nguyen
Development Coordinator
(816) 745-1703
[email protected]
Kari Rinker
State Government Relations Director
(316)768-3841
[email protected]
Kayli Saathoff
Quality Improvement Manager
(913) 901-6902
[email protected]
Kevin Harker
Executive Vice President
(913) 652-1908
[email protected]
Laura Lopez
Executive Director
(913) 652-1929
[email protected]
Natalie Cronkhite
Development Coordinator,
Heart Walk
(913) 652-1901
[email protected]
Natalie Spar
Development Director,
Impact
(314) 518-2961
[email protected]
Sami Hess
Development Director,
Go Red for Women
(913) 242-3582
[email protected]
Teresa Allen
Office Manager
[email protected]
President
Mary Boylan, MD
President
Retired: St. Luke's Regional Heart & Vascular Center
Kim Bors
Business Owner/Leader
Dover Corporation
Members
Heather Baker, EdD
Director of Teaching and Learning
Rockton School District #140
Tasha Blackmon
President & CEO
Cherry Health
Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, FAHA
Chair and Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Marc Gerdish, MD
Professor of Clinical Surgery, School of Medicine
Indiana University
Joseph Haas
Immediate Past Chair
SVP of Private Wealth
Associated Bank
Kelly Hancock, DNP, RN, NE-BC, FAAN
EVP, Chief Caregiver Officer & Chief Administrative Officer
Cleveland Clinic
Karen Harbin
President & CEO
Commonwealth Credit Union
Delores Hargrove-Young
Vice Chairwoman
d.e. Foxx & Associates, Inc.
William (B.J.) Hicks II, MD
Ex Officio
Vice President, Neuroscience Service Line, OhioHealth
Vascular Neurologist
OhioHealth Neurological Physicians
Linda Imonti
Director, Strategic Advisor and Retired Managing
KMPG LLP
Joshua J. Joseph, MD
President Elect
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Devray Kirkland
Vice President
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
Cardinal Health
Brett Kissela, MD, MS
Executive Vice-Dean
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Chief of Research Services
UC Health
Sharon Langshur
Research Project Coordinator
Northwestern Medicine
Chief Medical Officer,
ACCESS Community Health Network
Keith Miller, MD, PhD, FACC
Cardiologist
Bryan Health
John Mongelluzzo, J.D.
Managing Partner
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Howard O’Brien
Associate
Howard & O’Brien Executive Search
Karen Rieck
Vice President, Human Resources
Farm Bureau Financial Services
Lee Shapiro, JD
Ex Officio
Managing Partner
7wire Ventures
John Walsh, DSc, MBA, FACHE
Louisville, Kentucky
Heath Wilt, D.O., FACC
Cardiologist
North Kansas City Health
Contact Us
St. Louis
By Appointment Only:
12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 225
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: (314) 692-5600
Media Requests: (314) 692-5640
Kansas City
By Appointment Only:
5800 Foxridge Drive #108,
Mission, KS 66202
Phone: (913) 652-1900
Media Requests: (913) 652-1914
Heart and Stroke News
