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Celebrate and explore lessons learned from 25 years while looking forward to the future. Reviews from 2024 ISL Conference: “The speaker was awesome!!” “The keynote speaker was amazing!” I loved hearing from Dr. Parks! “The presenter was very knowledgeable of the content and displayed extreme passion for her topic. I really enjoyed it.”

This Heart Attack Targets Young, Active Women And Doctors Don’t Really Know Why The early research that exists today is thanks to a strong partnership with patients and cardiologists. “You’re so young to have that scar.” That’s what Naesha Parks often hears when people see the mark on her chest from the open-heart surgery she

Naesha Parks is acutely aware of every single beat of her heart. She wasn’t always. On a fateful day in late 2008, she kissed her 10-day old son goodbye and went to McDonald’s with a friend. She’d been feeling cooped up, she said, and needed to get out of the house. But at the restaurant,

Naesha Parks believes it was divine inspiration that led her to take her sudden bad feeling more seriously and urge a friend to call 911. She suddenly remembered a friend she hadn’t spoken to in years describing his first heart attack. “The last thing that I remember was saying to her, ‘I can’t die. Who’s

Dr. Naesha Parks began her journey with SCAD in 2008 just ten days after giving birth to her son. After experiencing chest pain, she learned that she’d developed blot clots that were lodged in her lungs. Several days later, her doctors discovered that she had a coronary artery dissection which required open heart surgery. En

We are wrapping up another school year and the kids will be off for a few months. A break from: “Did you do your homework? Do you have your clothes out and ready to put on in the morning for school? What would you like me to pack for lunch tomorrow?” Not so fast… it’s

Dr. Parks has had a number of spiritual encounters which have contributed to her strong faith, culminating with a medical incident just 9 days after childbirth that left her literally dead on the operating table. She was put in a coma to save her life and miraculously made a complete recovery. Now, she’s taking the