Associate Professor
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Dr Sam Radhakrishnan is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Following completion of his cardiology residency at the U of T, he completed a Clinical Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, before joining on staff as a Clinician Teacher in 2000. From 2010-20 he was appointed as the Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories.
His focus in education includes service as a medical examiner for the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) in the Adult Cardiology subspecialty training program (2004-2009). He has been the Director of the Cardiology Residency Training Program (2002-2010), and continues to serve as the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program of the Schulich Heart centre at Sunnybrook. In of 2010-12, he served as a member of the RCPSC Working Group tasked with creating the national standards of accreditation necessary for the nascent RCPSC Area of Focused Competency in Interventional Cardiology. Dr Radhakrishnan continues to serve as the U of T Program Director.
A proportionate amount of his time is devoted to clinical research and academic activities, including collaboration in industry-sponsored trials in the assessment and development of new devices and pharmacotherapies in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) and catheter based therapies for aortic stenosis. In 2007, he championed the development of the novel ‘Code STEMI’ program for the regional delivery of Primary PCI (PPCI) for STEMI care. In 2009, he led the implementation of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) program for the treatment of critical aortic stenosis in high-risk operative patients. The Schulich TAVI program has developed into a provincial and national centre of excellence with a full spectrum experience in the delivery of both commercially available valve technologies, access to emerging technologies and techniques and leadership roles in outcomes research.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
14:00 – 15:00 EST
Saturday, October 28, 2023
15:15 – 16:00 EST