Mary Beth Schewitz Biography

Mary Beth Schewitz suddenly and tragically lost her 20-year old son Max. He had fallen victim to an undiagnosed cardiac condition--one that could have been detected earlier with a simple EKG test. There are countless sad days after your child dies. You resolve just to put one foot in front of the other until night falls; then you cry yourself to sleep a sleep plagued with dreams of longing and regret Schewitz says. In fact no one would blame Schewitz if her grief had paralyzed her and kept her from moving forward. She met with Dr. Joseph Marek a Chicago cardiologist who had just piloted a school-wide EKG screening program to identify young adults at risk of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) from hidden and undiagnosed conditions. While it was too late for our son we knew there were others just like him living their lives unaware that they had a heart condition that could kill them. Just a year after her son's passing Schewitz created the Max Schewitz Foundation which provides free EKG screenings to high school and college children. They have now tested over 43000 students; 828 students had an abnormality that required further medical evaluation and 438 students received free echocardiograms from the Foundation.

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