Turégano appointed as Chairman of American Heart Association Task Force.

Enrique Turégano, VP of alPunto Advertising, has been appointed as Chairman of the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate Health Equity Task Force. The task force is composed of 20 professionals with medical, business, educational and non-profit backgrounds. Turégano will serve as Chairman for the 2011-2012 period. The task force’s goal is to improve the health status of lower income communities in the West, with a specific focus on heart disease.

“I am truly honored to serve in this task force; we have been working with the AHA/ASA for years now and have seen the positive impact we can make on disadvantaged communities who most need our information and services”, states Enrique Turégano.
This year, the Health Equity Task Force will be focusing on the topics of Obesity and Hypertension. Efforts are already underway to deliver important health-based messages around those topics to communities in the West.

Turégano has been involved with health area non-profits for some time and helped develop the first Hispanic market stroke information/prevention program for the American Heart Association; he has also worked with Susan G. Komen, the CDC, Women Against Gun Violence and the American Red Cross.

The Health Equity Task Force has a full group meeting twice a year and issues a quarterly newsletter that Turégano helped create.