Faculty & Chairs

Director
W. Peter Klinke, MD FRCPC FACC
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of PGY1 Regional Specialty Training, University of British Columbia
CEO and Director of Research, Victoria Heart Institute Foundation
Cardiologist, Royal Jubilee Hospital
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Co-Directors
J. Wayne Warnica, MD FRCPC FACC
Professor of Cardiac Science and Medicine, University of Calgary
Retired Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Foothills Medical Centre
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jacques Genest, Jr., MD FRCPC FACC
Professor and Novartis Chair in Medicine, McGill University
Director of the Division of Cardiology, McGill University Health Centre/Royal Victoria Hospital
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Robert Welsh, MD FRCPC FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta
Director of Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology, University of Alberta Hospitals
Director of the Cardiology Residency Training Program and Co-Director of the Chest Pain Program
Chair of Capital Health’s Vital Heart Response Protocol
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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2009 Faculty
Paul W. Armstrong, MD FRCPC
Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta
Director of the Canadian VIGOUR Centre
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Heidi Maria Connolly, MD FACC
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Consultant for Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Ralph Damiano, Jr., MD FACC
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Derek Exner, MD MPH FRCPC
Associate Professor, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Matthias G. Friedrich, MD FESC
Associate Professor of Cardiac Services and Radiology, University of Calgary
Director of the Stephenson Cardiovascular MR Center, Foothills Medical Center
President of the Canadian Society for Cardiovascular MR
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Bernard J. Gersh, MB ChB DPhil FRCP FACC
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Consultant for Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Chris Granger, MD FACC
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA

J. David Hilton, MD FRCPC FACC
Interventional Cardiologist, Vancouver Island Health Authority
Emeritus Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program, Victoria Heart Institute Foundation
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Debra Lynne Isaac, BN MD FRCPC FACC
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary
Director of the Cardiac Transplant Clinic, Foothills Medical Centre
Medical Director of the Echocardiography Lab, Rockyview Hospital
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Peter Liu, MD FRCPC FACC
Heart & Stroke / Polo Chair Professor of Medicine & Physiology at the Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto Health Network
Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network
Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paul M. Ridker, MD MPH FACC FAHA
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Allan M. Ross, MD FACC FAHA
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Erick Schampaert, MD FRCPC
Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Mario Talajic, MD FRCPC
Montréal Heart Institute
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Alexander Turpie, MD FRCPC
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

David D. Waters, MD FACC
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California, USA

Speakers are now being finalized, and the speaker roster is subject to change.