University of Toronto, Canada
I am a Cardiac Surgery resident at the University of Toronto. I received my Medical Degree and a Master’s of Science from the University of Montreal. After medical school, I joined the Cardiac Surgery Residency program at the University of Toronto, where my clinical interest crystallized around congenital heart disease and complex valve surgery. I also have a keen interest in the global burden of heart disease in the developing world, and I take part in yearly surgical missions to countries such as Egypt and Ethiopia.
I am currently a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering in the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering. My research focuses on the generation of the cardiac valve lineage from human embryonic stem cells, and on the generation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived left ventricular cardiomyocytes for the treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.