Professor of Medicine, Interventional & Transplant Cardiologist
University of Alberta
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Daniel Kim is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta and member of the Division of Cardiology at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute where he is an Interventional & Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist. He is the Medical Director of Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation and Adult Cardiac Assist Devices Programs. After graduating from the University of Calgary Medical School, Dr Kim went on to train in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at the University of Alberta. He then completed a Fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation at the Stanford University Medical Center, in California. Since accepting an academic position at the University of Alberta in 2003, he has engaged in a busy academic clinical practice with clinical interests in Acute Care, Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cardiogenic Shock as well as advanced cardiac procedures such as coronary interventions, invasive intracoronary imaging, coronary physiologic assessment. He is a recognized educator, having received numerous teaching awards for Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Peer Teaching. His current research focuses on novel detection methods for acute rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy, translational mechanisms in cardiac remodeling and decompensation, as well as cardiorenal physiology in heart failure. He is involved with numerous organizations and has been invited to speak nationally and internationally at both interventional and advanced heart failure/transplant meetings. He is currently on the primary panel for the ISHLT Heart Transplant Guidelines Update, the CCTN/CCS Position Statement on Heart Transplant Patient Eligibility, Selection, and Post-Transplant Care, and the CCS Mechanical Circulatory Support Position Statement.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT