Justin Ezekowitz, MBBCh MSc FRCPC

Dr. Justin Ezekowitz obtained his undergraduate medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, achieving an honors degree. He completed his medical residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas, Texas, a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Alberta Public Health Sciences (as well as participating in the CIHR TORCH program), and his Cardiology fellowship at the University of Alberta.

His clinical interests are focused on heart failure. He is the Director of the Heart Function Clinic at the University of Alberta Hospital, the oldest and one of the largest heart function clinics in Canada. He is also involved in the setting up of the chronic disease management programs in heart failure across Alberta. He is also on the 2008 and 2009 CCS HF guideline committee.

His research focus is heart failure. He is involved in numerous clinical trials in heart failure both at a local investigator-initiated level as well as multicenter international trials. Primary interests include clinical research into heart failure with a preserved systolic function, population health of heart failure, devices in heart failure, and acute heart failure. He has published numerous manuscripts related to the outcomes of heart failure patients in Circulation, JACC, CMAJ, JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine amongst others.

Canadian Cardiovascular Society Workshop
The Many Different Faces of Heart Failure

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• Vignette 2: I wish I had taken my anti-hypertension medications. Now what do I do? “Treat me like it’s 1974.”
• Vignette 3: What do you mean I have heart failure?