Did you know that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of all deaths? According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 599,413 people died due to diseases of the heart -- out of a total of 2,437,163 resident deaths that were registered in the United States in 2009. They also say that "one in every three deaths is from heart disease and stroke, equal to 2,200 deaths per day." To make these statistics more real, one of ICARE's own was a victim (and thankfully a survivor) of heart attack. Dr. Sata, our faculty mentor, created this organization with his daughter in order to increase the awareness of cardiac health and disease so that these statistics may improve.