An Encouraging Word For You Today From My Heart!

NELLIE A. WOSU

National Spokeswoman

In 2003, Nellie Wosu was selected to be a National Spokeswoman for the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease (aka WomenHeart), headquartered in Washington, DC. WomenHeart is the nation’s only patient advocacy organization serving the 8,000,000 women in America living with as well as those who are at risk for heart disease.  WomenHeart aims to increase women’s quality of life through education, advocacy, and support in a collaborative with corporate entities and healthcare professionals. Their goal is a heart disease-free America.  Ms. Wosu is a graduate of the WomenHeart 2003 Science & Leadership Symposium at Mayo Clinic.

Heart Disease Advocate

Ms. Wosu has served as an Advocate on Capitol Hill for the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease (headquartered in Washington, DC) representing the State of Nevada from 2004.  She was also a member of the WomenHeart Advocacy Institute in 2008 & 2009 as a representative for the State of North Carolina.  Ms. Wosu has also  been selected to attend the 2010 Advocacy Institute in Washington, DC.

In 2006, WomenHeart developed a joint project along with their Scientific Advisory Board and the Society for Women’s Health Research known as the 10Q Report.  The report identified the top 10 unanswered research questions affecting women and heart disease and asked Congress to re-direct NIH funding to answer the questions in order to improve the quality of women's cardiac care and reduce their deaths by 50% in 10 years.   As a National Spokeswoman, Ms. Wosu and her colleagues fielded commentary from the media in their local regions on this historic initiative for women with heart disease.

Ambassador

Ms. Wosu served as an Ambassador to the Radio Shack Corporation on their LifeWise Heart Truth Pledge Initiative.  The LifeWise initiative was formed as a national call-to-action pledge aimed at motivating American women to make measured changes to improve their heart health and that of their families. 

CEO

Ms. Wosu is the Founder & CEO of Encouraging Word Ministries, headquartered in Concord, North Carolina, since 2004.  Encouraging Word Ministries is an organization that focuses on women heart patients and their families by providing outreach support for mind, body & spirit by encouraging one and all to believe that they are more than the physician’s report.  EWM promotes thriving with not just surviving with the diagnosis.  This is done through a “visualization approach” developed by Ms. Wosu to ultimately provide a fresh perspective on ways that enhance the patients, their families and caretaker’s approach to their day-to-day experience with the diagnosis.  Encouraging Word Ministries held their first annual conference in 2006 in Concord, NC.

Minister

Nellie Wosu is a minister and CEO & Founder of the non-denominational, Encouraging Word Ministries International.  As minister, Minister Nellie teaches on all matters of the heart from a mind, body, spirit perspective promoting the faith healing principles of Jesus Christ.  She travels extensively to address congregations, social groups and a myriad of other organizations on matters concerning the heart which directly impact heart disease and women as well as individuals who have experienced catastrophic illness.

Local Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to):

Chaplain, Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast, Partner with Carolinas-NorthEast Medical Center, Healing Hearts Heart Failure Clinic, Concord, NC.  Ms. Wosu often speaks at the annual heart month initiatives for the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic.  Ms. Wosu was featured in a public service announcement on CNBC, Medical Miles developed by NorthEast Medical Center.  Partnered with Cabarrus County Health Alliance on their local cable broadcast, Today’s Health for the 2008 National Heart Month report.

Local Keynote & Guest Speaker Appearances:

Cabarrus County Health Alliance – 2010 & 2009 Go Red Lunch-N-Learn for their Medical Professional Staff

WomenHeart Advocacy Institute: 2004, 2008, 2009 & has been selected to attend in 2010

October 2007 Salisbury Alternative Health Roundup – Rowan County Library, Salisbury, NC

April 2007 – Guest Speaker on ReJoyNetwork Radio Show – 1370 AM “To Your Journey”

Professional Strengths

Exceptional Interpersonal Skills ● Excellent Facilitator & Manager ● Accomplished Presentation Skill Set ▪ Excellent Command of the English Language, Written & Oral ● Team Oriented ● Customer Service Focused ● Positive Personality ● Problem Solving ● Self Driven and Motivated ● Intelligent ●  Flexible ● Fast Learner with Willingness to Grow & Expand Ones Knowledge ● Strives for Excellence ● Works Well With All Level of Management, Public &  Key Officials ● Technologically Competent & Accomplished

advocacy Summary

As a woman who is living and thriving with heart disease, Ms. Wosu is an exceptional and amazing professional who has gone beyond the normal standards for one who lives with the diagnosis/prognosis daily.  By this, her professional summary as an advocate for early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment has pivoted her to penetrate the deep recesses of heart disease from the patient viewpoint.  Thus, encouraging the general population to take another view of what heart disease is through enlightenment about the debilitating disease.  She has overwhelmingly become a sought after speaker within the private sector, academia, medical community, faith based initiatives that reach out to the general public via all forms of media to educate, uplift, inspire and encourage the nation that one can be more than the diagnosis and prognosis if one chooses to be such. 

She has worked with Congress to address key issues of heart health awareness for the nation and continues to work to encourage the nation’s senators and representatives that heart disease is a matter of profound magnitude and scope which must be addressed in a timely and efficient matter as heart disease impacts the populous of the state of the nation as a whole in a disparaging manner.  Her work as an Advocate for heart disease will not cease until she has brought this overwhelming realization to the corporate world that has the ability to fund research and provide more effective programs and initiatives for a better work-life balance for their employees which ultimately will impact the overall health of the nation.