About Us

The LifeBeat Editorial Advisory Board

Richard Fogoros, MD
Consultant to research and development of medical devices

Barbara Gaynor, MS
Principal Customer Education Specialist , Patient Advocacy and Education
Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management

Melanie T. Gura, RN, MSN
Director, Pacemaker & Arrhythmia Service, Northeast Ohio Cardiovascular Specialists

Kari Hayes Iverson, CVT, BA
Principal Technical Consultant, CRM Technical Services
Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management

Marnee Larkin, RN
Senior Technical Consultant, CRM Technical Services
Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management

Dorothy Nauman, RN, BSN
Manager, Patient Advocacy and Education
Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management

Nicole Stavroff
ICD patient

Ruth Trupp, PhD, MSN
The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses

LifeBeat Online is a newsletter for patients with cardiac devices. LifeBeat Online hopes to help you live better by providing useful facts and features. LifeBeat Online covers topics that matter to patients and their loved ones. The goal is to help improve your quality of life after getting your device.

LifeBeat Online is sponsored by Boston Scientific — a world leader in treating cardiovascular diseases. Our wide range of products and devices includes defibrillators, stents, pacemakers, and devices to treat heart failure. They help patients with heart disease return to active and full lives. You can learn more about our products on our website.

LifeBeat Online is one of many ways that we, at Boston Scientific, reach out to patients with heart conditions. We're also a leader in supporting clinical research. That's how the medical community learns more about how best to help patients with heart and blood vessel conditions. With that knowledge, Boston Scientific can continue to make breakthrough lifesaving products. And make sure that more lives are improved and saved.