MORE than 80 people attended last Thursday evening's 'Healthy Hearts Community Talk', hosted by Alba Health at St Paul's Church in Myrtleford.

Attendees were able to gain expert insights regarding heart disease prevention and management, hear some top tips for maintaining a healthy-heart lifestyle and to find out more about the free Healthy Hearts Program introduced last year.

Program organiser and general practitioner at Alba Health, Dr Justin Donaldson, said the evening went really well, with a great community response.

"The number of audience members who were engaging with the talks was great,"Dr Donaldson said.

"Rebecca Piazza from Flexout Health, Roslyn Bloomer from the PACE program at Alpine Health and our visiting cardiologist, Dr Julian Yeoh, all spoke about the best ways to protect your heart.

"I gave an overview of the program and explained our aims are not just to identify potential heart problems, but also to educate the community.

"Events such as this community talk evening are incredibly helpful to provide a platform for the community to interact with us in an informal manner, outside of making an appointment.

"We’re really grateful for the support we have received from community, as well as from Dr Julian, Flexout Health, Medtronic who provided funding for the event and to Murray Primary Health Network (PHN)."

Alba Health is also proud to introduce two new hires: nurse practitioner Stephen Voogt who has over 30 years of experience working across the healthcare sector and overseas; and general practitioner Dr Christina Dumitrescu, whose special interests are emergency medicine and mental health, dermatology, skin checks and minor surgery procedures.

For more information about the Healthy Hearts Program visit: https://albahealth.com.au/healthy-hearts-program/ or visit Alba Health's Facebook page.