Left to right: Graduate student Naia Zulueta, moderator and journalist Lakshmi Singh, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, graduate student John Ecklu and Professor Amanda Carrico. Photos by Casey Cass/CU Boulder.

Heart disease and stroke remain leading causes of death, affecting 1 in 3 Americans. Every 34 seconds someone has a heart attack; every 40 seconds, a stroke.