Please join us for a Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. Darren McGuire, Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Cardiology Clinical Trials unit, and Director of the Parkland Hospital and Health System Outpatient Cardiology clinics, UT Southwestern. His talk will be held on Monday, October 19th 4:30pm in the Health Sciences Building Auditorium 6th floor, 155 College Street. Date: Monday October 19, 2015 Time: 4:30-5:30 pm (followed by reception – …

Please join us for a Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. Robin Choudhury, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Director Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. His talk will be held on Monday, September 21, 2-15 4:30pm in the Health Sciences Building Auditorium 6th floor, 155 College Street. Date: Monday September 21, 2015 Time: 4:30-5:30 pm (followed by reception – refreshments will be served) Speaker: …

9th Annual LANDMARK LECTURE SERIES Featuring: Douglas Zipes, MD Distinguished Professor, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Emeritus Director of the Division of Cardiology and Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine Topic: BIRTH AND MATURATION OF CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AS A SPECIALITY Monday, October 5, 2015 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. The Allan Waters Family Auditorium Li …

Please join us for a Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. André La Gerche, Head of Sports Cardiology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute Melbourne. His talk, will be held on Tuesday, May 19th 5pm in the Li Ka Shing Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street. Date: Tuesday May 19th, 2015 Time: 4:30-5:30 pm (followed by reception – refreshments will be served) Speaker: André La Gerche, MBBS, PhD Head of …

Please join us for a Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. Eduardo Marbán, Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. His talk, will be held on Monday, May 11th 5pm in the Li Ka Shing Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street. Date: Monday May 11th, 2015 Time: 5:00-6:00 pm (followed by reception – refreshments will be served) Speaker: Eduardo Marbán, M.D., PhD. Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute  Talk Title: “Therapeutic regeneration of the “irreversibly” injured …

The 2015 HSRLCE Michael J. Sole Annual Cardiovascular Scientific Day will beheld on Thursday April 16, 2015 at the Toronto Reference Library. The theme is VASCULAR MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS. See the attached draft program.  2015 ACvSD Draft Program Deadline for Online registration is Monday April 13th Deadline for Abstract Submission is Monday April 6th 2015 ACvSD Poster Abstract Form    

Please join us for a Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. Garret FitzGerald, McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. His talk, will be held on Thursday, March 26th from 5pm at the Li Ka Shing Auditorium, 209 Victoria Street. Date: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 Time: 5:00-6:00 pm (followed by …

  Please join us for our next Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. Jacques Genest of McGill University. His talk, “Systems and Molecular Approaches to Severe Hyperlipidemias (SMASH)” will be held on Monday, March 2nd from 5-6 pm at the Tanz Neuroscience Building, Imperial Oil Lecture Theatre, 6 Queens Park West. See HSRLCE DVP- Jacques Genest for more details or see below. Date: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 Time: 5:00 …

Please join us for our next Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Lecture by Dr. Joseph Hill of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. His talk, “Cardioprotection: Tale of Two Mechanisms” will be held on Monday, January 26th from 5-6 pm at the Fitzgerald Building Lecture Theatre, 150 College Street, Room 103.  Click here for details or see below. Date: Monday, January 26, 2015 Time: …

Every December the HSRLCE showcases one of its own for its Distinguished Professor Lecture Series. This year we have the pleasure of highlighting Dr. Vivek Rao, Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, and Munk Professor in Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics at Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Please join us on Monday, December 1st from 5-6 pm …

Dr. Stefan Anker, an international heart failure expert, will be in Toronto on November 12 (on his way to AHA) and has offered to give a special rounds on his research. Dr. Anker is Professor of Innovative Clinical Trials (Cardiology & Cachexia Research) at University Medical Center Göttingen (Germany). He has authored more than 500 original papers, reviews, and editorials …

Welcome to the HSRLCE’s newly re-launched website. Please peruse at your leisure. We welcome researchers to our membership. – Michael E. Farkouh, MD Director, Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centres of Excellence

The Canadian Critical Care Forum (http://www.criticalcarecanada.com) is a 3 day international conference that happens in Toronto every year. This year the meeting will be from Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2014. This is the largest Critical Care related meeting in Canada. The CCCF is a forum to showcase cutting edge research and share new ideas with researchers and clinicians interested …