Eliz Greene of Milwaukee, Wis., is a woman with a mission — and a message that goes straight to the heart.

Greene, who travels several months each year throughout the United States, shared her story with a room packed mostly by women at Rock Springs Center. She and Dr. Noel Peterson, a physician with Eastern Cardiology and director of women’s cardiovascular disease and preventive medicine for the Heart Institute, were the featured speakers at the fifth annual Heart Truth Social, presented by the East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center and Vidant Edgecombe Hospital.

The event, now a fixture on the Greenville social calendar, was one of several the heart institute is featuring during American Heart Month.

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