Jonathan Howlett, MD FRCPC

Dr. Howlett graduated from Medical School, University of Toronto in 1989. He completed Internal Medicine and Cardiology Fellowship training at Dalhousie University in 1994, and continued at the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, University of Toronto.

Dr. Howlett was on active staff at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre from September 1995 to August 2008, where he became Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Calgary, at the Foothills Medical Centre. Current activities also include acute chronic heart failure, and evaluation of health care delivery and outcomes and Knowledge Translation.

He is currently Principal Investigator for A Strategy of Telehomecare for the Treatment of Heart Failure (STARTEL), a multicentre Canadian study evaluating the impact of telehomecare treatment for heart failure patients with issues of difficult access to care. He serves on several Steering and Executive Committees for international clinical trials. He is Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Consensus Conference Primary Panel for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure, co-Chair of the CCS Heart Failure Workshop Initiative and a member of the recent Canadian Heart Health Strategy initiative.

Dr. Howlett has over 60 peer reviewed articles published or in press in addition to over 80 abstract presentations.

Canadian Cardiovascular Society Workshop
The Many Different Faces of Heart Failure

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