Cardiologist
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
University of Ottawa
Ross Davies, BSc, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FCCS, is a cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
He received his BSc from McGill in 1970 and his MD from Toronto in 1974. He trained in Medicine and Cardiology at the Toronto General Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital, and he was certified as a Fellow of the RCPSC in both specialities in 1978. He worked as a Research Fellow at Yale and was certified as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 1980 and was granted Emeritus status in 2021. In 2002, he obtained certification from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Dr. Davies initiated the Nuclear Cardiology Program at the Heart Institute in 1980 and was Director until 1998. He served as Medical Director of the Heart Transplant program from 1984 to 2003. He was President of the Medical and Scientific Staff from 2001 to 2009 and Managing Partner from 2006 to 2010. Dr. Davies directed the Cardiology Referral Clinic from 2010 to 2019. He was Head of CME from 2013 to 2020 and received an Award for Excellence twice.
From 2006 to 2010, he was Member at Large at CCS and then served as Secretary from 2010 to 2015. He helped develop the Fellow of the CCS designation and was honoured as the inaugural recipient in 2015. He served as President of the Canadian Nuclear Cardiology Society from 2012 to 2014, and then founded the Canadian Society of Cardiovascular Nuclear and CT Imaging from 2014 to 2016. In 2019, he received the Michael Freeman Nuclear Cardiology and CT Annual Achievement Award. He co-chaired the 2023 CCS CPU on management of the patient with a prolonged QT interval.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
15:15 – 16:15 EST
Sunday, October 29, 2023
09:45 – 10:45 EST