HOSPITALS
“ FOR SCIENCE AND MEDICINE TO WORK , IT MUST EVOLVE ”
JENNIFER JONES-MCMEANSE DIVISIONAL VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL CLINICAL AFFAIRS , ABBOTT
“ We educated barbers on how to measure blood pressure , identify when a patient was showing potential signs of hypertension , and then get them back to the clinic so that we could evaluate them and look for therapeutic options for these patients ,” said Jones-McMeans . “ The barbershop hypertension study was able to take a combination of the research that was being done in-house and reach out to the community with it through businesses .” After this , Jones-McMeans started working at Abbott .
Advancing health equity with Abbott ' s vascular business Abbott ' s vascular business covers the complete vascular system of the body , from the heart and arteries to the peripheral vasculature , the veins and vessels outside of the heart .
“ Our mission and purpose is really to focus on the care of patients with vascular disease . This means that we develop medical devices that go on the heart ’ s arteries , as well as medical devices that go into the arteries located in the neck or the carotid arteries ,” said Jones-McMeans . “ Therapies include balloons and wires to assist in these treatments , while stents that may go in the arteries within the iliac arteries , which are located more peripherally outside of the heart , as well as the arteries that are located in our legs .”
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