Professor
Faculty of Science - Department of Biology
Key Areas of Expertise
- Heart disease progression and prevention
- Heart failure
- Benefits of exercise on cardiovascular health
- Cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation
- Molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in atrial fibrillation
- The use of stem cells to understand and treat heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias
- Impact of exercise on the cardiovascular system
- Effects of exercise on atrial fibrillation
- Physiology of the heart
- Heart development
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Awards
Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Biology - 2016
John Foester Distinguished Lecture Award - 2015
ICS, St Boniface Hospital
Merit Award - 2014
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
Lowell Langille Award - 2009
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Fellow - 2008 - present
Royal Society of Canada
Fellow - 1998 - present
American Heart Association
Premier’s Award for Research Excellence - 1999 - 2003
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