The Eloise Gannon Foundation

Team Captain: Steffi Van Den Bergh
Team Members: Matthew O’Sullivan, Kylie Anderson, Melissa Stapleton, Bridget Jones, Alex Gotschall, Peter O’Rourke, Gary Greer, Joanne Burley, Thomas Mortemore, Stacey McKearney, Simon Bain

 

The Eloise Gannon Foundation was established to honour the memory of Eloise Gannon who at 15 died unexpectedly due to a cardiac arrhythmia Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW).

 

 

 

 

Funds raised go towards raising awareness of cardiac arrhythmmias, improving accessibility of defibrillators, research and funding of medical initiatives. Currently in Australia up to 4 young people (under the age of 35) die every week from sudden cardiac death (SCD). The Foundation was formed with the specific goal of raising awareness of these statistics and to help develop initiatives to reduce the incidence of SCD in young people.

 

The foundation has four specific aims:

 

 

The Foundation enjoys the support of many high profile athletes as Ambassadors. Australian Swimming stars, Ariarne Titmus, Maddie Groves, Mitch Larkin, Alex Graham, Jack Cartwright, Max Carelton, Jenna and Amy Forrester have all actively supported the Foundation as well as Olympic greats, Libby Trickett and Christian Sprenger.  Harris Andrews, Vice Captain of the Brisbane Lions is also a great advocate and Ambassador of the Foundation.

 

The Eloise Gannon Foundation is proud of their collaboration with Dr Rolf Gomes and Heart of Australia in the form of Heart3, a state-of-the-art, mobile medical clinic. Heart3 is the baby of the Heart of Australia fleet, joining Heart1 and Heart2, delivering specialist medical services through rural and regional Queensland. When possible, this collaboration allows the Foundation to offer free ECG testing to young people in an effort to increase early detection of potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias.

 

The hope of the foundation is to save young lives at potential risk.

 

To be able to do this in Eloise's name is even more special.

 

 

 

 

 

To watch more, you can visit this link: https://www.eloisegannonfoundation.com.au/

 

For the ABC Landline feature on Heart of Australia, you can watch more below:

 

 

 

To learn more about Heart of Australia, visit the website: https://www.heartofaustralia.com/

 

Abbott ANZ SH is an official supporting partner of Heart of Australia and will continue this into the future.

 

What more can we do?

Abbott SH is committed to giving back through volunteer opportunities that will be made available both at the 2022 ANZ Kick-Off and throughout the year.

 

Who else are Abbott SH supporting as part of the 2022 ANZ Kick-Off?

Street Side Medics

HeartKids