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Schulich Heart Program Grand Rounds

Hosted by Drs. Christopher Cheung, Dennis Ko and Maneesh Sud, the Schulich Heart Program Cardiology Virtual Grand Rounds occurs Tuesday mornings at 7:30 to 8:30 EST where speakers from around the world explore the latest research, innovations and clinical advances in cardiology.

The Schulich Heart Program welcomes all medical and allied health professionals as well as trainees at any stage of their career to attend.

To join an upcoming talk live, follow the Zoom details below. This page will be updated with recordings of archived past Grand Rounds as they are made available.

Cardiology Research Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Please contact Tasneem Dalal via tasneem.dalal@sunnybrook.ca if you have any comments or questions about our rounds.

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2024 Grand Rounds

Date	Speaker	Topic
December 10, 2024	Dr. John Sapp, MD, FRCPC, FHRS Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Dalhousie University Assistant Dean Clinical Research, Dalhousie University QEII Health Sciences Centre	Ventricular Tachycardia: Turning Sudden Death into Overtime
December 3, 2024	Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, FACC Vice-president of research, Saint Luke's Health System Professor of medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City	TBD
November 26, 2024	Dr. Guillaume Marquis-Gravel, MD, MSc Interventional Cardiologist, Montreal Heart Institute Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal Junior 1 clinical research scholar of the Fonds de la Recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS)	Novel approaches to prevent AKI in the cath lab
November 19, 2024	Dr. Ayodele Odutayo, MD, PhD Assistant professor, University of Toronto Clinician-scientist, Adult nephrology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Medical Therapy for Preventing Cardiorenal Disease
November 12, 2024	Dr. Douglas Manuel, MD, MSc, FRCPC Senior Scientist, Methodological & Implementation Research, Ottawa Health Research Institute Distinguished Professor, Tier 1 Clinical Research Chair in Precision Medicine for Disease Prevention, Department of Family Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Senior Core Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Senior Investigator, Bruyère Health Research Institute	Assessing cardiovascular risk in the primary care setting
November 5, 2024	Dr. Stephanie Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC Medical Director, Heart Function Clinic Cardiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Associate professor, University of Toronto Dr. Poon will be joined by the University of Toronto Cardiology Fellow Dr. Basra Mohammed	Quality improvement - Case discussions
October 29, 2024	Dr. Rafik Tadros, MD, PhD Associate professor of medicine, Université de Montréal Cardiologist-Electrophysiologist and Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Centre, Montreal Heart Institute Canada Research Chair in Translational Cardiovascular Genetics	Canadian Cardiovascular Society Clinical Practice Update on Contemporary Management of the Patient with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
October 22, 2024	Dr. Maneesh Sud, MD, PhD Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute Assistant professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Staff cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	A Review of Clinical Trials Presented at ESC 2024
October 8, 2024	Dr. Dennis Ko, MD, MSc Director, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute Senior Scientist, ICES and Sunnybrook Research Institute Professor, University of Toronto Jack Tu Chair in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research	Cardiovascular outcomes research: Focusing on real-world impact, not just impact factor
October 1, 2024	Dr. Sean van Diepen, MD, FRCPC Academic cardiologist-intensivist, University of Alberta Hospital Co-director, Coronary Intensive Care Unit, University of Alberta Hospital Associate professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta	Adopting evidence based post-cardiac arrest care: From hospital arrival to neuroprognostication
September 24, 2024	Dr. Stephanie Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Toronto Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Poon will be joined by: Dr. Reha Kumar, chief cardiology resident and Dr. Tina Zhou, cardiology resident, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre/University of Toronto	Quality improvement: Case discussions
September 17, 2024	Dr. Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FSIAC Clinician-scientist, Kingston General Hospital Research Institute Head, Heart Rhythm Service, Kingston General Hospital Professor, Queen's University AND Dr. Reha Kumar Chief cardiology resident Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre/University of Toronto	Lyme carditis: All you need to know AND A curious case of the ticking heart
May 14, 2024	Dr. Yin Ge, MD, FRCPC Cardiologist, Cardiac Care North York and St. Michael's Hospital Assistant Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto	Identifying the substrate for ventricular arrhythmia using CMR
May 7, 2024	Dr. Stephanie Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Toronto Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Poon will be joined by University of Toronto Cardiology Fellows	Quality improvement: Case discussion
April 30, 2024	Dr. Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD, MCR Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Oregon Health and Science University Director, Cardio-Oncology program, Cardiovascular CT Research Knight Cardiovascular Institute Oregon Health and Science University	Coronary CTA assessment of stenosis, hemodynamics and plaque
April 23, 2024	Dr. Damian Redfearn, MD, MB, ChB, MRCPI, FRCPC Clinican Scientist, Kingston General Hospital Research Institute Clinican Lead, Arrhythmia, Kingston Health Sciences Centre Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Signal Analysis (CASA) Laboratory, Queen's University Professor, Department of Medicine and School of Computing, Queen's University	Atrial fibrillation: Through the looking glass
April 16, 2024	Dr. Bruce Landon, MD, MBA, MSc Professor of healthcare policy, Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Medicare advantage: Getting beyond the headlines
April 9, 2024	Dr. Andrew Ha, MD, FRCP(C) Clinican investigator, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute	Post-operative atrial fibrillation after cardiothoracic surgery
April 2, 2024	Dr. Carolina Alba, PhD Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto	Clinical use of predictive models in outpatients with heart failure
March 26, 2024	Dr. Angela Jerath, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FANZCA, BSc Staff cardiac anesthesiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute Adjunct scientist, Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences	Impact of physician and patient sex on outcomes
March 5, 2024	Dr. Derek Exner, MD, MPH Cardiologist, Alberta Health Services Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Cardiac Sciences and Department of Community Sciences Associate Dean of Innovation and Commercialization, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary	Advancing clinical care through innovation
February 27, 2024	Dr. Jeff Healey, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FHRS Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, Hamilton Health Sciences Senior Scientist, Population Health Research Institute Professor of Medicine, McMaster University	The Artesia Trial: Apixaban for stroke prevention in subclinical Atrial Fibrillation
February 13, 2024	Dr. Edwin Ho, MD Director, Structual Heart Imaging/Interventional Echo Director, Echocardiography Lab Co-director, Structual Heart/Heart Valve Center	Interventional echocardiography: past, present, and future
February 6, 2024	Spencer LaLonde, MD, FRCPC Clinical Fellow, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Tales from the Echo Lab: Review of Mechanical Complications of MI
January 30, 2024	Dr. Bradley Strauss, MD, PhD, FRCP(C), FACC Staff Cardiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Senior Scientist, Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto *And* Dr. Ahmed Nasef, MD, MBA Manager, Medventions, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Innovation And Clinical Needs: Navigating Tortuous Arteries And Protecting Your Back *And* Medventions- Nurturing The Next Generation Of Healthcare Innovators
January 23, 2024	Dr. Dennis Ko, MD Director, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute Senior Scientist, ICES and Sunnybrook Research Institute Professor, University of Toronto Jack Tu Chair in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research	Cardiovascular Trials and Research Themes in the Future
January 16, 2024	Dr. John Eikelboom, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC Professor, Department of Medicine, McMaster University Jack Hirsh/Population Health Research Chair in Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis	Anticoagulation in 2024: Lessons from the randomized trials

2023 Grand Rounds


Date	Speaker	Topic
December 12, 2023	Dr. Robert A. Harrington, MD Provost for Medical Affairs, Cornell University Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine	The Future of Clinical Trials: What I have learned over 30+ years as a trialist
December 05, 2023	Jagdish Butany, MBBS, MS, FRCPC Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto	Why Bioprostheses Fail & Will TAVI Fail?
November 28, 2023	Dr. Lucas Colombo Godoy, MD Cardiology Clinical Fellow, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital	Coronary revascularization in patients with diabetes
November 21, 2023	Dr. Stephanie Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Toronto Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Poon will be joined by University of Toronto Cardiology Fellows	Quality improvement: Case Discussions
November 14, 2023	Dr. Amer Johri, MD MSc FRCPC FASE Professor, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University	Shallow Vessel Diving Deep: Use of Carotid Ultrasound for CV Risk Stratification
November 07, 2023	Dr. Atul Verma, MD Director, Division of Cardiology, McGill University Health Centre Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology	New Technologies in AF Ablation - Focus on Pulsed Field Ablation
October 31, 2023	Dr. Diego Delgado, MD, FCRSCS Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto Medical director, Inpatient cardiology service	Cardiac Amyloidosis: Strategic Therapies in 2023
October 24, 2023	Dr. Robert Avram, MD MSc FRCPC DRCPSC Interventional Cardiologist, Montreal Heart Institute Assistant Professor, University of Montreal	The Promise of AI for Clinical Decision Support in the Cathlab
October 17, 2023	NO ROUNDS
October 10, 2023	Dr. Sam Radhakrishnan, MD, FRCPC Interventional Cardiologist, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Associate professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Dr. Harindra Wijeysundera, MD, PhD Chief, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Senior scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute Dr. Nicolas Bowers, MD, FRCPC Interventional cardigologist, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Live Transmission of Transcatheter Aortic Implantation (TAVI)
October 03, 2023	Dr. Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS Professor of Medicine in Residence Endowed Professor in Atrial Fibrillation Research University of California, San Francisco Associate Chief of Cardiology for Research, UCSF Health	Lifestyle and Atrial Fibrillation: Adventures in Clincal Research Study Designs
September 26, 2023	Dr. John Ryan, MD, MB, BCh, BAO Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship, University of Utah Pulmonary	Pulmonary Hypertension
September 19, 2023	Dr. Stephanie Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Toronto Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Poon was joined by University of Toronto Cardiology Fellow Dr. Carol Graham	Quality Improvement – Case Discussions
September 12, 2023	Dr. Stephen Fremes, MD, M.Sc., FRCSC, FACP, FACC Professor, Department of surgery (cardiac), University of Toronto Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute	PCI vs CABG in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: STICH3C
May 30, 2023	Dr. Stephen Fremes, MD M.Sc. FRCSC FACP FACC Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute Staff, cardiac surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Adjunct scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies Professor, department of surgery (cardiac), University of Toronto Member, School of Graduate Studies, Institute of Medical Science and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, U of T	TBD
May 23, 2023	No Rounds
May 16, 2023	Dr. Martha Gulati, MD MS FACC FAHA FASPC Cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Director of Prevention & Associate Director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center President-Elect of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology	Guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain
May 9, 2023	Dr. David Naylor, OC FRCPC FRSC Physician, Medical Researcher & Former President of the University of Toronto	Paradise Lost? How Canada’s health-care systems fell behind and might catch up
May 2, 2023	Dr. Stephanie Poon, MD MSc FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Toronto Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Poon will be joined by University of Toronto Cardiology Fellows	Quality Improvement – Case Discussions
April 25, 2023	Dr. Calvin Ke, MD PHD FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Clinician Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute Staff Endocrinologist, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network Adjunct Scientist, ICES	Heterogeneity in the association between Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
April 18, 2023	Dr. Amy Yu, MDCM MSc FRCPC Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Stroke Neurologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center	Stroke systems of care: Service provision and outcomes evaluation
April 11, 2023	Dr. Kaveh Shojania, MD Staff physician, general internal medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Veterans Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute Vice-chair, quality and innovation, department of medicine, U of T Senior scholar, U of T Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Full professor, department of medicine, U of T Adjunct faculty, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, U of T	Can we continue with ‘business as usual’ academics in the face of the massive crises we face – to the health system and the planet?
April 04, 2023	Dr. Andrew Czarnecki, MD M.Sc FRCPC Associate scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute Interventional cardiologist, Schulich Heart Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Assistant professor, division of cardiology, department of medicine, faculty of medicine, U of T Adjunct scientist, Cardiovascular Research Program, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, U of T	The Revolutionary Evolution of Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Therapies
March 28, 2023	Dr. Jonathan Howlett, MD FRCPC FCCS FACC FHFSA (hon) Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, South Health Campus Past & Founding President, Canadian Heart Failure Society, Calgary, AB	Personalizing Heart Failure Therapy in an Impersonal World?
March 14 & 21, 2023	No Rounds (March break)
March 7, 2023	Ian R. Drennan ACP PhD Assistant Professor, University of Toronto	Resuscitation 2023: Updates in Resuscitation Science
February 28, 2023	Dr. Rohan Khera, MD MS Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics) Clinical Director, Center for Health Informatics and Analytics, YNHH/Yale Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)	Leveraging Data Science for Innovation in Cardiovascular Care
February 14, 2023	Dr. Sheldon Cheskes, MD CCFP (EM) FCFP Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Scientist, Keenan Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital Medical Director, Regions of Halton and Peel, Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Double Sequential External Defibrillation for Refractory VF: The DOSE VF Cluster RCT
February 7, 2023	No Rounds.
January 31, 2023	Dr. Paul Chan, MD MSc Professor of Medicine at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, MO	Racial Disparities in Cardiac Arrest in the U.S. - Current Landscape and Next Steps
January 24, 2023	Dr. Candace McNaughton, MD PhD MPH Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Emergency Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Scientist, Integrated Community Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute	Assessment of cardiovascular medication adherence and effectiveness for hypertension and heart failure
January 17, 2023	Dr. Christopher Cheung, MD MPH FRCPC Cardiologist & Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Associate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco	What's New in AF? New Evidence and Technologies in Detection and Monitoring

2022 Grand Rounds »

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 11, 2022	Dr. Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Mississippi. Patrick H. Lehan Chair of Cardiovascular Research	HFpEF Update 2022
February 1, 2022	Professor Jan Steffel, MD, FESC FEHRA FHRS Vice Chairman and Professor of Cardiology, Senior Consultant in Invasive Electrophysiology and Implantable Cardiac Devices, University Hospital Zurich	The 2021 EHRA Guide on the Use of NOACs – Focus on Frail and Elderly Patients
February 8, 2022	Dr. Piroze M. Davierwala, MD, MS, MCh, FAHA Cardiovascular Surgeon and Director, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Div. of Cardiovascular Surgery Peter Munk Cardiac Center, Toronto General Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery, UHN Sprott Department of Surgery University of Toronto	Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery - An Overview
February 15, 2022	Dr. Brian Bergmark, MD, FACC, FSCAI Investigator, TIMI Study Group, Interventional Cardiologist, Chronic Total Occlusion/Complex Coronary Intervention Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Revascularization for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
February 22, 2022	Dr. Maneesh Sud, MD, FRCPC PhD Candidate in Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Associate Cardiologist, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto	Using Outcomes Research to Improve the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
March 1, 2022	Dr. Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD, MSCE, FEBCTS, FACC, FAHA Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medicine	Multiple arterial grafts for coronary bypass surgery
March 8, 2022	Dr. Sean Cai and Dr. Taylor Petropolous Cardiology Residents, University of Toronto	Quality Improvement Rounds
March 29, 2022	Dr. Martin Myers, MD, FRCPC	Automated Office Blood Pressure: Evolution from an idea to acceptance in national guidelines using the methodology used in new drug development
April 5, 2022	Dr. Michael Hammer, MD Clinical Fellow, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Diagnostic Imaging in Infective Endocarditis
April 12, 2022	Dr. Ephraim Yeheyis, MD Cardiac Surgery Fellow, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Post MI Ventricular Septal Rupture (VSD): Case presentation and literature review
April 26, 2022	Dr. Nicholas Bowers, MD Interventional Cardiology Fellow Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Future directions in structural heart intervention
May 3, 2022	Dr. Tosin Osuntokun, MB, BCh, MRCPI Clinical Fellow, Women’s College Hospital	Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
May 10, 2022	Dr. Umberin Najeeb, MD FCPS (Pak) FRCPC Staff Internist, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Associate Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty Lead Equity & Co-Director Master Teacher Program, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto	Creating a Culture of Allyship, Advocacy and Inclusion
May 17, 2022	Dr. Vuyisile T. Nkomo, MD MPH Professor of Medicine and Consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Director, Valvular Heart Disease Clinic, Division of Structural Heart Disease, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine	Doppler mean gradient underestimates aortic stenosis severity during atrial fibrillation
May 24, 2022	Dr. Ambika Tejpal and Sameer Kishwaha Cardiology Residents, University of Toronto	Quality Improvement Rounds
June 7, 2022	Dr. Maria Terricabras Casas, MD Electrophysiology, Clinical Associate Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto	Pulse Electric Field Ablation: Time for a Paradigm Shift?
June 14, 2022	Dr. Roxana Mehran, MD FACC FAHA MSCAI FESC Professor of Medicine and Director Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute Mount Sinai School of Medicine	A Contemporary Simple Risk Score for Prediction of Contrast-Associated Acute Kidney Injury After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Mehran-2 CA-AKI Score
September 13, 2022	Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, MD, FRCPC, FCCS, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FCAHS Director, Research Centre, Montreal Heart Institute Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal	Prevention of Atherothrombotic Events with Inflammation Reduction
September 20, 2022	D`r. Stephanie` Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC Assistant Professor Department of Medicine/Cardiology Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto Dr. Poon will be joined by University of Toronto Cardiology Fellows Dr. Nicolas Santi & Dr. Daniel Woo	Quality Improvement Rounds
September 27, 2022	NO ROUNDS
October 4, 2022	Jacobo Moreno Garijo, MD, MSc, EDA, FASE Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Toronto Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	TEE in the perioperative setting
October 18, 2022	Dr. Tom-Aizik Friedman, MD Cardiac Surgical Fellow Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Aortic Dissection
October 25, 2022	Dr. Jacques Genest, MD FRCP(C) Senior Scientist, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, MUHC	Lipoprotein Disorders 2022
November 1, 2022	Dr. Peter Kavask, PhD, FCACB, FAACC, FCCS Professor, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University	High-sensitivity troponin testing 7 the juxtaposition between speed and quality
November 8, 2022	Janarthanan Sathananthan, BHB, MBChB, MPH, FRACP Interventional Cardiologist, St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital Scientist, VCH Research Institute	TAVI - Future Directions
November 15, 2022	Brian Courtney, BHB, MBChB, MPH, FRACP Interventional Cardiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Co-founder, Conavi Medical Inc	Image-guided PCI: Update on clinical data, guidelines and development of hybrid IVUS / OCT
November 22, 2022	Vicki Wang, MD FRCPC Echocardiography Fellow, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Image-guided PCI: Update on clinical data, guidelines and development of hybrid IVUS / OCT
November 29, 2022	Michael Bonares, MD, FRCPC, MSc (candidate) Palliative Medicine Consultant, Palliative Care Consult Team, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	The heart of the matter: Palliative medicine among patients with heart failure
December 06, 2022	Prof. Rolf Wachter, MD Professor, Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Leipzig University Deputy Director, Clinic and Policlinic for Cardiology, Leipzig University Hospital	Screening for atrial fibrillation – a useful (secondary) stroke prevention strategy
December 13, 2022	D`r. Stephanie` Poon, MD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine/Cardiology Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto Dr. Poon will be joined by a University of Toronto Cardiology Fellow Dr. David Dorian	Quality Improvement – Case Discussions

2021 Grand Rounds »


Date	Speaker	Topic
September 14, 2021	Dr. Dennis T. Ko, MD Research Director, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) Interventional Cardiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Senior Scientist, ICES and SRI Professor, Dept. of Medicine and the IHPME, University of Toronto Jack Tu Chair in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research	Outcomes Research in Interventional Cardiology: Identifying Current Gaps in Knowledge to Improve Future Care
September 21, 2021	Dr. Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies of Investigative Medicine and of Public Health (Health Policy) Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) Yale School of Medicine	medRxiv: Changing norms of communicating medical science
September 28, 2021	Dr. Samuel Siu, MD Professor of Medicine, Cardiologist Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University	Cardio-Obstetrics: A 'New' Discipline in Cardiology
October 5, 2021	Dr. Stephanie Poon MD Cardiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Toronto Dr. Poon will be joined by a University of Toronto Cardiology Fellow	Quality Improvement Rounds
October 19, 2021	Dr. Jagmeet Singh, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Founding Director, Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program	Advances in Electrical Therapies for Heart Failure
October 26, 2021	Dr. Mena Gewarges, MD Chief cardiology fellow, Sunnybrook Hospital University of Toronto	Contemporary cardiogenic shock care in Canada: The emergence of novel care pathways to improve patient survival
November 2, 2021	Dr. Fahad Razak, MD, MSc Internist and Clinician Scientist, St Michael’s Hospital Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Research Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute Visiting Scientist, Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies	Using Big Data to Improve the Quality of Hospital Care
November 9, 2021	Dr. Ady Orbach, MD Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Cardiac Involvement in Recovered COVID-19 Patients
November 16, 2021	Dr. Chris Tarola, MD, MPH Cardiac and Aortic Surgeon, Schulich Heart Center, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto	Current Trends in Aortic Surgery – Bridging Gaps in Patient Surveillance
November 23, 2021	Dr. Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH Professor of Cardiology, Academic Institute Jerold B. Katz Investigator, Academic Institute Full Clinical Member, Research Institute Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Prevention and Wellness, Department of Cardiology Co-director, Center for Outcomes Research Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College	Cancelled.
November 30, 2021	Dr. David Cohen, MD, MSc Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research, CRF Clinical Trials Center Director of Academic Affairs, St. Francis Hospital	Technology in the Cath Lab: Expensive Toys or Cost-Effective Therapies?
December 7, 2021	Dr. Ritu Thamman Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE) Board of Directors, American Society of Echocardiography	Life 360 Cardiology 280: Social Media for Cardiologists
December 14, 2021	Dr. Stephanie Poon Cardiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Toronto Dr. Poon will be joined by University of Toronto Cardiology Fellows: Dr. Michael Ruiz & Dr. Hirmand Nouraei.	Quality Improvement Rounds