Cardiovascular Researchers

Cardiovascular ResearchersTaking a closer look:
Dr. Imtiaz Ali explores and questions common practices in cardiac care

Understanding exercise behaviour:
Dr. Chris Blanchard helps heart patients overcome barriers to physical activity

Understanding the heart’s brain:
Dr. Robert Chen probes effects of birth defects on heart’s nervous system

Tackling heart disease from both ends of the spectrum:
Dr. Camille Hancock Friesen wants heart-healthy kids and longer-term transplants

Fit or frail for surgery: 
Dr. Greg Hirsch paves the way to better decisions and outcomes of cardiac surgery

A new lease on life:
Dr. Greg Hirsch and Dr. Tim Lee find key to long-term survival of heart transplant patients

Gender and the aging heart:
Dr. Susan Howlett explores how men's and women's hearts age differently

Insidious scarring:

Dr. Jean-François Légaré explores scarring process that leads to heart failure

Chewing the fat:
Dr. Roger McLeod investigates protective effects of healthy fats

Safer surgery for aging hearts:
Dr. Stacy O’Blenes tests new ways to protect fragile hearts during surgery

Keeping the beat:
Dr. Ratika Parkash works to improve outcomes for patients with heart rhythm problems

Mending Broken Hearts:
Dr. Kishore Pasumarthi explores new territory in cardiac regeneration

Atomic medicine:
Dr. Jan Rainey explores atomic mechanisms of heart muscle destruction

Harnessing the heart's own proteins:
Dr. Robert Rose wants to treat and even prevent the lagging and irregular heartbeats that develop with age

Fixing short circuits:
Dr. John Sapp finetunes treatments for dangerous heart rhythms

Fishing for answers:
Dr. Frank Smith looks to zebrafish to explain heart-nervous system interactions