Sonia Anand, MD, PhD, FRCPc, FRSC (she/her/hers)

Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
McMaster University
McMaster University

Dr. Sonia Anand is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at McMaster University, is the Director of the Chanchlani Research Centre focused on Health Equity Research, and is a Senior Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute. Dr. Anand received a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster in 1992, Internal Medicine Training at McMaster and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1996. After additional clinical training in thrombosis and in vascular medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Anand works as a vascular medicine specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University. Dr. Anand further received her Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster in 1996 and Ph.D. in Health Research Methodology at McMaster in 2002. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research. Her present research focuses upon the environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, women and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Anand has been awarded more than 46 million dollars in research funding in the last 10 years including two recent COVID-19 observational studies. Dr. Anand’s work is widely published amongst academic journals with over 420 scientific publications, and in 2019 she was inducted as a Fellow to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2020 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Diabetes from the South Asian Health Foundation, UK. In 2021, Dr. Anand joined the National Heart and Stroke Foundation as a Board member. In 2022, Dr. Anand received the Margolese National Heart Disorders Prize, and was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2023, she was awarded the YWCA Women of Distinction award.

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Presentation(s):

• SPECIAL PRESENTATION - HEALTH ADVOCACY IN MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS (CV-105)

  Thursday, October 26, 2023
  11:00 – 11:40 EST

• VASCULAR DAY OPENING PLENARY - PLÉNIÈRE D'OUVERTURE DE LA JOURNÉE VASCULAIRE (VASC-101)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  08:15 – 10:10 EST

• VASCULAR DAY MORNING PLENARY - PANEL MATINAL DE LA JOURNE VASCULAIRE (VASC-102)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  10:40 – 12:00 EST

• PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A - PANEL MATINAL : DISCUSSION, FOIRE AUX QUESTIONS (Q&A) (VASC-102)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  11:40 – 12:00 EST

• COGNITIVE FUNCTION (VASC-111)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  14:00 – 15:00 EST

• HOW CAN WE ENHANCE THE VASCULAR TOOLKIT (VASC-121)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  15:15 – 16:15 EST

• PRECISION MEDICINE AND VASCULAR DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT (VASC-119)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  15:15 – 16:15 EST

• VASCULAR DAY CLOSING PLENARY (VASC-123)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  16:30 – 17:30 EST

• PART I - AI ECHO APPLICATIONS IN CARDIAC SCREENING (VASC-123)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  16:30 – 16:50 EST

• PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A (VASC-123)

  Friday, October 27, 2023
  17:10 – 17:30 EST

• CSVM SPOTLIGHT: VASCULAR MEDICINE IN 2023 - A NEW SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR PRACTITIONERS OF ALL DISCIPLINES (CCC-164)

  Saturday, October 28, 2023
  08:30 – 09:30 EST

• CLINICAL PEARLS FOR THE VASCULAR MEDICINE PRACTITIONER (CCC-175)

  Saturday, October 28, 2023
  09:45 – 10:45 EST

• VASCULAR JEOPARDY – “WHICH DISCIPLINE PREVENTS AND TREATS VASCULAR DISEASE THE BEST!” (CCC-186)

  Saturday, October 28, 2023
  11:00 – 11:40 EST

• WOUND CARE AND COMPRESSION ESSENTIALS: HANDS-ON WORKSHOP (CCC-147)

  Saturday, October 28, 2023
  11:40 – 12:00 EST