Gore Partners With AAAneurysm Outreach to Campaign for AAA Awareness and Screening

January 28, 2014—Gore & Associates (Flagstaff, AZ) and AAAneurysm Outreach (New Orleans, LA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the early detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), announced that they have partnered to raise awareness of and encourage screening of at-risk individuals. Through this collaboration, the two organizations aim to increase the amount of programming and education needed to support the clinical community, as well as those at risk of AAA.

According to Gore and AAAneurysm Outreach, the new partnership and resulting campaign will focus on three key initiatives: awareness, outreach, and screening. 

AAAneurysm Outreach and Gore will launch the AAA Community Speaker Series, through which survivors, advocates, providers, and at-risk individuals will share their experiences and examine the issues related to AAA, with a goal of saving lives through education.

Through outreach efforts, the partnership will provide materials intended to enhance primary care physicians’ understanding of AAA diagnosis and treatment. The campaign will provide primary care physicians with toolkits to support their interaction and communication with vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and radiologists within their region.

Finally, the campaign will organize and conduct AAA screenings for those at risk. A key element of this effort will include the AAA Screening Tour, which will empower the patient community to understand their risks and the facts about AAA from medical providers. These screenings will be conducted in various regions in close collaboration with regional health care providers with a goal of screening up to nearly 300 individuals at each event.

“Our ultimate goal is to create better health outcomes among those at-risk groups, which include those over the age of 60, those with a history of smoking, and those with a family history of AAA,” commented Christy Ross, Executive Director for AAAneurysm Outreach, in the announcement. “Through this partnership, we look forward to collaborating closely with Gore and their team to make that goal a reality.” More information about AAAneurysm Outreach is available on the group’s website at www.aoutreach.org.