Developing the 4 Pillars of Health
The Heart Series was created by Charles Katzenberg, MD, cardiologist with University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, and Edna Silva, RN, cardiac rehabilitation nurse and founder of the Center for Wu Style T’ai Chi Chuan.
Success Stories from Participants in the Heart Series
Charles Katzenberg, MD, FACC
Dr Katzenberg has been practicing cardiology in Tucson since 1982. After medical school at the University of Illinois, he completed Pulmonary and Cardiology fellowships. He is a founder of Pima Heart Associates and the Fitness Institute of Tucson. Dr Katzenberg was the Medical Director of the Tucson Heart Hospital from 1997 through 2005. He specializes in preventive cardiology and has an active interest in reforming our health care system. Currently he is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center.
Edna Silva, RN
Edna Silva has been an RN since 1965 and T’ai Chi instructor since 1994. She has worked in multiple settings including a 1000 bed military hospital in Germany to a 20 bed hospital in the mountains of Colorado. For the past 20 years she has worked in the field of Cardiac Rehabilitation. Her work as Heart Failure clinic coordinator for Northwest Medical Center showed that her patients reduced hospitalizations and hospital days by more then 80%. Additionally, her work showed a 44% reduction in mortality. Her patients also showed an impressive improvement in their quality of life. Today her life is spent doing what she loves; keeping people out of hospitals through health teaching and T’ai Chi at Edna Silva's Center for Wu Style T’ai Chi.
