Julie Michelle O'Bryan, MS: a conversation with the editor on cardiac rehabilitation at Baylor University Medical Center

Julie M. O'Bryan, MS, and William C. Roberts, MD

From the Walter I. Berman Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Center (O'Bryan) and Baylor Heart and Vascular Center (Roberts), Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

Corresponding author: Julie Michelle O'Bryan, MS, Walter I. Berman Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Center, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75246 (e-mail: julieob@baylorhealth.edu).

Topics:

Patient population in cardiac rehabilitation
Enrollment, orientation, and case management
Dietitian and social worker support
The Leap for Life educational program
The exercise program
Exercise tolerance testing
Weight loss
Management of diabetes and hypercholesterolemia
Medical oversight of cardiac rehabilitation
Payment for and expenses of cardiac rehabilitation
Outcomes

(BUMC Proceedings 2002;15:32-37)