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John Warner, the president of the American Heart Association, is recovering after he suffered a heart attack at a heart health conference.

On Monday, Warner was attending a major gathering of heart scientists in Anaheim, California when he suffered what was described as a “mild heart attack.”

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“He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors inserted a stent to open a clogged artery,” read a statement by the American Heart Association.

Warner, 52, is a Dallas-based interventional cardiologist with a long clinical history of some of the precise conditions that afflicted him on Monday, including early-onset heart attacks.

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He also comes from a family that is uniquely susceptible to heart disease. A grandfather and a great grandfather were both killed by heart disease, and Warner’s father and paternal grandfather were forced to undergo bypass surgery in their 60s.

In a Sunday speech delivered just hours before his heart attack, in fact, Warner told an Anaheim crowd that there were “no old men on either side of my family, none.”