Georgio Gholam
Co-President & Co-Founder
- Background
- Med-P · McGill University
- Current program
- Medicine · U1 · McGill University
CAPIOCAPIO
nPrevent when you can.Act when it matters most.
ryCAPIO started as a conversation between two medical students at McGill University, Amin Hasheminia and Georgio Gholam. We kept coming back to the same frustration. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world; much of it is preventable, and yet many people cannot name their own risk factors or describe what a heart attack actually feels like. Plenty of campaigns tell the public that heart disease is serious. Very few tell them what to do about it. We wanted something actionable, so we built it.
The name comes from the Latin capio: to take, to seize, to grasp. It stands for the Cardiovascular Assessment, Prevention and Intervention Organization.
nA future in which cardiovascular knowledge is accessible to everyone, and fewer people lose precious time, heart muscle, or their lives to a heart attack that could have been prevented, recognized sooner, or treated faster.
Much cardiovascular education stops at prevention. We follow the full path a person can face, from long before a heart attack to long after one.
Risk, recognition, real-time action, recovery, and prevention again.
Know your baseline risk, including the genetics and family history you cannot change.
Learn what prevention actually looks like day to day.
Recognize a heart attack when it happens, in yourself or in the person beside you.
Understand the tests and procedures that follow, so the hospital feels less frightening.
Recover well, then prevent the next one.
we serveCAPIO is built for the general public, at every age, with a particular focus on youth. Habits and awareness formed early are the ones that protect people decades later, and a young person who knows the signs today can save a parent or a grandparent tonight.
Ischemic heart disease is the number one cause of death worldwide, and a heart attack is its most sudden and most lethal form. In an emergency, survival is measured in minutes, and the longest delay is usually the one before anyone calls for help.
Closing that gap is the reason CAPIO exists.
Co-President & Co-Founder
Co-President & Co-Founder
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