Aspirin Use
Promoting Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
In its landmark study ranking the value of clinical preventive services, Partnership for Prevention found that counseling about regular aspirin use is one of the highest value preventive services clinicians can provide.
Currently, less than half of all adults for whom aspirin is recommended take aspirin on a regular basis. If this was increased to 90 percent, an additional 45,000 lives would be saved each year. In addition, widespread counseling about aspirin use would result in medical savings of $70 per person advised.
Partnership for Prevention has undertaken a multi-pronged initiative to increase the number of Americans who are using aspirin to reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke. For more information about this important initiative, contact Jason Spangler,
jspangler@prevent.org or Rebecca Doigan,
rdoigan@prevent.org, at Partnership for Prevention.
Partnership for Prevention has established the Council on Aspirin for Health and Prevention to guide Partnership’s aspirin-related activities. Members of the Task Force are listed below.
George K. Anderson, MD, MPH
Major General, USAF, MC (retired)
Executive Director
Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.
Kathy Berra, MSN, ANP
Clinical Director, Stanford Heart Network
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Attending Gastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Gerald Fletcher, MD
Liaison for Outreach, Health and Wellness, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Nieca Goldberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Women's Heart Program
New York University
Augustus O. Grant, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Dean, School of Medicine
Duke University
William Miser, MD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Clinical Research Director
Associate Academic Program Director
Ohio State University
Carl J. Pepine, MD
Eminent Scholar Emeritus and
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Florida
Michael Pignone, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief, UNC Division of General Internal Medicine
UNC Hospital – Chapel Hill
Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH
Chair, National Commission on Prevention Priorities, Partnership for Prevention
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, BlueCross BlueShield of Texas
Randall S. Stafford, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University
Craig Williams, PharmD
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Oregon Health & Science University
Support for these activities are supported in part by an unrestricted grant from Bayer HealthCare.