Registration is open for 2017 Heart Walk

UNMC participants in last year's American Heart Association Heart Walk.

UNMC participants in last year's American Heart Association Heart Walk.

Registration for the American Heart Association’s 2017 Omaha-Council Bluffs Heart Walk is now open.

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., is chair for this year’s event. Dr. Gold also served as chair of the 2016 event.

Festivities will begin at 7 a.m., with opening ceremonies at 9 a.m. and the walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. The walk will begin at Miller’s Landing, 151 Freedom Park Road, Omaha.

Participation is important, and donations are optional. Participants who walked in the 2016 event are encouraged to wear their red Heart Walk shirts. New participants from UNMC/Nebraska Medicine can pick up a T-shirt at the UNMC/Nebraska Medicine booth on May 13.

For more information and to register, click here.