Book details

  • Genre:self-help
  • Sub-genre:Personal Growth / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:264
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798317849559

Move On

Keys for a Full Life

By Valentin Fuster and Cristina Saez

Overview

Valentin Fuster had dreamed, as a child, of becoming a professional tennis player, and had he continued to practice with the racket, perhaps he would have. However, an incident at school and, more important, advice from a doctor, Pedro Farreras Valentí, changed his destiny forever, setting him on the path to becoming one of the most influential cardiologists in mod ern cardiology. In Move On, Fuster, the most cited Spanish scientist in history, reveals his life's learnings, how he began his decisive research into what causes infarction, and how he laid the foundations for cardiovascular health worldwide. He recounts his successes, his setbacks, and his defeats with complete sincerity, and tells us about his most personal experiences in challenging situations in his life and work, in the hope that they may be inspiring, especially for young people, when it comes to choosing and setting out on their life's path. A moving account of a career passionately devoted to research and to people, a life lesson that leaves us with tremendously honest values, shared by one of the most extraordinary and inspiring men.
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Description

Valentin Fuster had dreamed, as a child, of becoming a professional tennis player, and had he continued to practice with the racket, perhaps he would have. However, an incident at school and, more important, advice from a doctor, Pedro Farreras Valentí, changed his destiny forever, setting him on the path to becoming one of the most influential cardiologists in mod ern cardiology. In Move On, Fuster, the most cited Spanish scientist in history, reveals his life's learnings, how he began his decisive research into what causes infarction, and how he laid the foundations for cardiovascular health worldwide. He recounts his successes, his setbacks, and his defeats with complete sincerity, and tells us about his most personal experiences in challenging situations in his life and work, in the hope that they may be inspiring, especially for young people, when it comes to choosing and setting out on their life's path. A moving account of a career passionately devoted to research and to people, a life lesson that leaves us with tremendously honest values, shared by one of the most extraordinary and inspiring men.
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About The Author

Valentin Fuster is one of the most internationally recognized cardiologists and researchers and a leading voice in the medical sector worldwide. He is considered one of the most important physicians and scientists of the past 100 years. He is president of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York recently renamed Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in his honor) and of the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) attached to the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), in turn, attached to the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities in Spain. He is the only cardiologist and researcher to have received the highest scientific awards from the four most important cardiology organizations in the world: the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the Inter-American Society of Cardiology. His contributions to cardiovascular medicine treatment of patients with heart disease, and his research into the origin of cardiovascular events, which has contributed to improving the prevention and treatment of heart attacks, earned him a number of high international awards.
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