Key Speakers
Rob S.B. Beanlands
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, CANADA.
Dr Beanlands is the Director of the National Cardiac PET Centre, Chief of Cardiac Imaging and Director of the Molecular Function and Imaging Program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, as well as Professor in the Divisions of Cardiology and Radiology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa. He received his MD from the University of Ottawa in 1983, a gold medalist. (read more)
David J. Callans
University of Pennsylvania
David J. Callans is Associate Director of the Arrhythmia Service at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine. (read more)
Jean-Pierre Després
Univeristé Laval, Québec, QC, CANADA.
Jean-Pierre Després, PhD, FAHA, FIAS, Professor, Université Laval, Director of Research, Cardiology
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Québec, QC Canada. (read more)
Paul Dorian
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CANADA.
Paul Dorian, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Department Director, Division of Cardiology, and Staff Cardiac Electrophysiologist, St. Michael's Hospital Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (read more)
Greg Flaker
University of Missouri
Greg Flaker MD is Professor of Medicine and the Wes and Simon Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the
University of Missouri.
Jacques Genest
McGill University, Montreal, QC
A Montréal native, Jacques Genest obtained his MD at McGill University Medical School and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at McGill and a cardiology fellowship at Tufts University in Boston. His post-doctoral studies took him to Boston, where he studied lipoprotein metabolism and molecular genetics. (read more)
Jeff Healey
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CANADA.
Jeff Healey is a cardiologist/electrophysiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton. He is also a member of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University. (read more)
Gary D. Lopaschuk
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Dr. Gary D. Lopaschuk
Degrees: PhD. (Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of British Columbia) 1983, MSc. (Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of British Columbia) 1980, BSc. (Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia) 1978. (read more)
Brian McCrindle
Labatt Family Heart Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, CANADA.
Dr. Brian McCrindle is a Staff Cardiologist and Senior Scientist, Labatt Family Heart Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. (read more)
Michael McGillion
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CANADA.
Dr. Michael McGillion is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Pain Society. (read more)
Bruce McManus
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
A Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC, Dr McManus also serves as Director of the James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, Director of the Providence Heart + Lung Institute at St. Paul’s Hospital, and Director of a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) for the Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF ). (read more)
Ruth McPherson
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, CANADA.
Dr. McPherson received her PhD from the University of London (UK) and MD from the University of Toronto, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1984. She then completed subspecialty training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Toronto. She held academic positions at the University of Toronto and McGill University before coming to the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 1992. (read more)
Shamir Mehta
Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON. CANADA
In addition to his position as an Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and an Interventional Cardiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Canada, Dr Mehta is also the Director of Interventional Cardiology and ACS Research at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI). Following the completion of medical school and fellowships at the University of Toronto, Dr Mehta was awarded a HSFC Research Fellowship Award to complete a research fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology at the PHRI, and earned a Master's degree in Health Research Methodology through the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. (read more)
Stanley Nattel
Montreal Heart Institute / Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, CANADA
Dr Nattel's area of research is basic mechanisms of cardiac electrical activity and arrhythmias, with a particular interest in cardiac ion channel function, atrial fibrillation and novel, mechanistically-based therapeutic approaches. Cardiac arrhythmias can interfere importantly with heart function and are the leading cause of sudden death in the population. (read more)
Andrew Pipe
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, CANADA.
A graduate of Queen's University in 1974, Dr Pipe is the Chief of the Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. His clinical research involves assessing new approaches to smoking cessation, strategies designed to facilitate exercise adoption, and novel initiatives to prevent cardiovascular disease. Having addressed audiences in more than 30 nations, Dr Pipe is frequently consulted on issues related to tobacco use and smoking cessation, drug use in sport, and physical activity and health. (read more)
Peter K. Smith
Duke University
Dr. Peter K. Smith is Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Duke University. He is a graduate of Princeton University (Phi Beta Kappa), Duke Medical School (AOA) and of the Duke General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery residencies. (read more)
Jean-Claude Tardif
Montreal Heart Institute / Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, CANADA.
Jean-Claude Tardif is the Director of the Research Centre and cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and professor of medicine at the University of Montreal. He graduated from the University of Montreal with his medical degree in 1987 and completed his training in cardiology and research in Montreal and Boston in 1994. Dr. Tardif is the Director of the Cardiovascular Health Network of the Quebec Health Research Fund (FRSQ) and also holds the University of Montreal research chair in atherosclerosis. (read more)
Alec Vahanian
Department of Cardiology, Bichat Hospital, Paris, FRANCE.
Dr Vahanian is Head of the Cardiology Department, Bichat University Hospital, Paris. His research interests range from valvular heart disease, particularly percutaneous mitral commissurotomy, to acute coronary syndromes, particularly antithrombotic treatment and interventional management. (read more)
Subodh Verma
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. CANADA.
Dr Verma is a Canadian expert on vascular biology, endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis and has published extensively on the subject. As the undergraduate pharmacy gold medalist, he went on to pursue an MSc and PhD in cardiovascular pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Verma then pursued an MD degree and post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiology at the University of Calgary. Following completion of his residency training in cardiac surgery at University of Toronto, he was appointed as Associate Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology, and Director, Traineeship in Atherosclerosis, and recently awarded the Canada Research Chair in Atherosclerosis. (read more)
David D. Waters
San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Dr. David D. Waters was Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital and the Maurice Eliaser Jr. Distinguished Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco from 1999 to 2007, and is now Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine. (read more)
Salim Yusuf
Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON. Canada
Salim Yusuf is a cardiologist and epidemiologist. After qualifying in medicine from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India in 1976, he received a Rhodes Scholarship and obtained a DPhil from Oxford, during which he was involved (along with Richard Peto and Peter Sleight) in initiating the concept of large, simple trials, and meta-analysis. He subsequently coordinated the first ISIS trial, and served on the steering committee of all subsequent ISIS trials. (read more)
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