Overview

Dr. Rosendo Rodriguez is a Clinical Scientist and Manager of the Division of Cardiac Surgery’s Clinical Research Unit at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is also a Lecturer in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Ottawa.

Background

Dr. Rodriguez received his medical degree with Honours from the Military Medical School and the National University of Mexico in 1977. He worked for the armed forces as a Military Surgeon at the Central Military Hospital in Mexico City. In 1982, he received his certification as an ENT Surgeon from the Mexican Board of Otolaryngology. In 1984, he was granted the “Presidential Award,” which allowed him to pursue two years of postgraduate training in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Human Neurosciences Research Unit at the University of Ottawa.

He was then appointed to follow post-doctoral studies as a Cadwell Clinical Research Fellow, in 1992, in the Division of Neurological Surgery, University of Louisville, Kentucky. During this fellowship, the university sponsored his training on the assessment of cerebral circulation in humans. As part of his training, Dr. Rodriguez made use of transcranial Doppler at the Pacific Vascular Laboratory of the Institute of Applied Physiology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Subsequently, he worked as a clinical neurophysiologist, in care of intra-operative neuromonitoring, in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Norton-Kosair Children’s Hospital, Louisville. In collaboration with Dr. Harvey L. Edmonds, he participated in the development of the first multimodal neuromonitoring program for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University of Louisville.

In 1995, he joined the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa to study several aspects of brain function in children during cardiac and orthopedic surgery. This work earned him the Popham Fellowship Award in 1997 from the CHEO Foundation and the Pierre Labelle Award from the Quebec Scoliosis Society in 1999. In 2000, he initiated his research collaboration with the Cardiac Anesthesia Research Group by participating in the assessment of cardiac surgery patients using transcranial Doppler ultrasound.