Schulich Heart Program

Administrative Assistant: Trudy Young
Phone: 416-480-6947
Fax: 416-855-2135
Email: trudy.young@sunnybrook.ca

Education:

• B.Sc., 1995, Biology, University of Waterloo, Canada
• MD, 1999, Medicine, Queens University, Canada
• M.Sc., 2001, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Toronto, Canada

Appointments and Affiliations:

• Associate scientist, Physical Sciences, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
• Staff, division of cardiac and vascular surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Assistant professor, division of vascular surgery, University of Toronto

Research Foci:

• Macro and microvascular imaging and therapeutics
• Clinical outcomes in vascular surgery
• Endovascular therapy for aneurysmal and occlusive disease
• Vascular education and guideline implementation

Selected Publications:

See current publications list at PubMed.

1. Dueck A, Wooster DL, Wooster E. Fishing for BASS: Surveying primary care practitioners in the barrier to aortic screening study. Journal of Vascular Ultrasound. 2007 Dec;31(4):189–192.
2. Lindsay TF, Dueck AD. Is duplex surveillance of value after leg vein bypass grafting? Davies AH, Hawdon AJ, Sydes MR, Thompson SG, on behalf of the VGST participants. Circulation 2005;112:1985–91. Vasc Med. 2006 May;11(2):137–8.
3. Dueck AD, Kucey DS, Johnston KW, Alter D, Laupacis A. Long-term survival and temporal trends in patient and surgeon factors after elective and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. J Vasc Surg. 2004 Jun;39(6):1261–7.
4. Dueck AD, Kucey DS, Johnston KW, Alter D, Laupacis A. Survival after ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: effect of patient, surgeon, and hospital factors. J Vasc Surg. 2004 Jun;39(6):1253–60.
5. Dueck AD, Johnston KW, Alter D, Laupacis A, Kucey DS. Predictors of repair and effect of gender on treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. J Vasc Surg. 2004 Apr;39(4):784–7.

Related News and Stories:

• MRI technique holds key to selecting patients for heart treatment: New method of identifying hard versus soft lesions shows promise for people with peripheral arterial disease (SRI Magazine, 2018)
• Of Life and Limb: Using high-resolution imaging to prevent amputations in patients with peripheral arterial disease (SRI Magazine, 2015)