Founded in 2006, HeartValveSurgery.com (HVS) is the largest online community and educational resource for patients diagnosed with heart valve disease. Our platform provides patients, their families, and friends interactive services - a social network, a blog, a surgeon finder, an educational video library, a book, a heart valve clinic directory - to guide people through the cardiac surgery cycle. HeartValveSurgery.com has partnered over 40 leading cardiac centers (e.g. Cleveland Clinic, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Northwestern Medicine) and more than 200 heart valve specialists to educate and empower patients about valve disorders and optimal treatment. HeartValveSurgery.com was started by Adam Pick, a former patient, and a technology enthusiast who has a successful 20-year career in software, hardware and Internet ventures. To learn more, visit https://www.heart-valve-surgery.com.