Our Founder: A Survivor, An Advocate, Your Resource
Our founder, Mellanie True Hills, is now cured of atrial fibrillation. She created StopAfib.org as part of the American Foundation for Women's Health to share what she and other atrial fibrillation patients have learned and to provide you with information and answers to your questions. StopAfib.org is a patient-to-patient resource to help you control your atrial fibrillation so it doesn't rule your life.
Though atrial fibrillation impacts women and their families, we're not here just for women, but for anyone — patients, families, and caregivers — dealing with the life-changing impact of atrial fibrillation.
Providing Resources for You
As an afib patient, you probably have lots of questions and not enough time with your doctor to get all the answers. We hope that you will find many of those answers here. We want you to know your options so that you can make the best choices for you. You are not alone. We're here to help you.
If you're not getting the answers you need from your health care team, please search and research in our Afib Services Directory to find the right resources for treating and managing your atrial fibrillation. This locator will help you find hospitals, heart hospitals, arrhythmia centers, electrophysiologists, cardiologists, and surgeons that provide atrial fibrillation services. You will also find reviews by patients just like yourself. Please note that we request positive reviews from patients, so providers with more reviews would generally indicate more happy patients and better overall results.
We're not pushing products or services, or selling things here, and we do not accept advertising. Our goal is for this site to be an unbiased informational resource for you. Those doctors and facilities that have expanded listings in our Afib Services Directory are not only providing you with more information about their services, but are also helping us to defray the operational costs of providing you with the resources here and are thus considered as site sponsors. We are a not-for-profit site and are committed to continuing to provide you with more resources to help on your atrial fibrillation journey.
This site is a work in progress, with more content and tools to be added. Our goal is to foster communication, conversation, and collaboration. We'd love your participation in the process. We hope that you, as an afib patient, will share your own experiences here.
Our Content
This is a patient-driven site. The content on this site has been written by Mellanie True Hills, an atrial fibrillation patient whose afib is now under control. While her college education was in the sciences and she has worked in technical fields, she does not have medical training. She has, however, written best-selling books on technical topics and an award-winning health book, A Woman's Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The HEART Program for Health and Longevity.
We will accept content contributions for this site from other afib patients, and in such cases the author will be listed by name. Unless otherwise noted, no content has been written by medical personnel.
Since we're not doctors or trained medical personnel, we can't guarantee 100% medical accuracy. This site is meant to educate you so that you can be a proactive partner with your healthcare team in managing your atrial fibrillation together, but it does not replace that relationship.
Listings in the Atrial Fibrillation Services Directory are provided for the purpose of giving patients the information with which to narrow their search for physicians and facilities. The information in the directory is submitted by individual providers. While we review and approve listings, we cannot verify every detail of every listing. It is thus your responsibility as a patient to not act solely on the information here, but to verify it with the provider chosen.
Patient reviews submitted to us must include name and contact information so that we may verify them. When warranted, we will omit names as many afib patients cannot have employers or colleagues knowing such personal medical details, but we will know the sources of those patient reviews.
If you find errors in this site, or want to clarify anything that is here, or if there is something you'd like for us to address, please contact us.
Our Funding
As a patient-funded site, we appreciate the help of sponsors in building and operating this atrial fibrillation patient resource.
If your organization can help with this mission, please contact us to discuss how you can help. Thank you for your support.
