Project ADAM advocates.

Our affiliate programs advocate for access to AEDs and CPR training in schools and communities.

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Project ADAM prepares schools.

Project ADAM provides schools with the resources needed to implement the cardiac chain of survival.

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Project ADAM saves lives.

Project ADAM unites hospital systems across the nation to promote Heart Safe Schools.

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Project ADAM

Project ADAM began in 1999 after the death of Adam Lemel, a 17-year-old Whitefish Bay, WI, high school student who collapsed and died while playing basketball. Adam suffered a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), in which ventricular fibrillation occurred, a condition in which the ventricles cannot pump blood into the body. Defibrillation, or an AED, could have saved his life.

Adam's parents, Patty Lemel-Clanton and Joe Lemel, collaborated with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin’s Herma Heart Institute to create this program in Adam's memory.