President & CEO
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation
Wexford, Pennsylvania, United States
Mary M. Newman, MS, is co-founder and President/CEO of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Foundation. She is the recipient of the American Heart Association (AHA) 2021 Resuscitation Champion Award. She helped create the Cardiac Arrest Survivor Alliance, an online community for people affected by cardiac arrest. She is a co-founder of the national “Call-Push-Shock” movement. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the National Center for Early Defibrillation at the University of Pittsburgh and as faculty in its Department of Emergency Medicine. Prior to this, she was research coordinator for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest studies at Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine.
She created the Chain of Survival metaphor, which was later adopted by the AHA and numerous organizations worldwide. She co-founded the Citizen CPR Foundation (CCPRF) and served on its Board of Directors for 17 years. She was founding editor of Currents in Emergency Cardiac Care.
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