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Michael Tremblay is Chair of the Board of Governors of The Ottawa Hospital.
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Heather Tulloch is a Clinical, Health, and Rehabilitation Psychologist, Scientist, and Director of the Cardiovascular Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
Kathleen Turner is a Registered Dietitian in the Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
Christian Umeobika is the manager of the radiochemistry laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute‘s Cardiac PET Centre.
In 2016, Queens University held as part of its 175 th anniversary celebrations an international summit to discuss and debate an "endgame" for tobacco usage in Canada. The Tobacco Endgame for Canada Summit concluded with a call for the creation of a tobacco endgame strategy for the country. Experts...
A study of gender differences in mitral valve surgery has generated interest in the professional community because it sheds light on an aspect of valve surgery that hasn’t been well-studied to date. “We know from the medical literature that women typically are referred for diagnostic tests and...
Ottawa – The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) has been named one of the ten winners of the 2019 TD Ready Challenge presented by TD Bank Group. The Heart Institute will receive CDN $1 million from TD Bank Group to pursue innovative research designed to improve and expand the early...
On Wednesday, March 20, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) will host the grand opening of the Data Science Centre, a state-of-the-art digital innovation hub at the UOHI that will leverage cardiovascular data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to advance cardiovascular research and improve patient care.
There has never been a network of this kind. Until now.
Several Heart Institute staff members were the recipients of significant honours at this year’s congress. Foremost of these were Dr. Robert Roberts, Heart Institute President and CEO, and Dr. Lyall Higginson. A Pioneering Researcher Dr. Roberts received the Canadian Cardiovascular Society’s Research...
Each October, the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress (CCC) is the largest gathering of cardiovascular health professionals in the country. This year, the Heart Institute’s Dr. Rob Beanlands chaired what proved to be a highly successful meeting. Since CCC was last held in Vancouver in 2006, the...
This year, the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress (CCC) was part of an even larger event called Vascular 2013 that added parallel conferences dedicated to hypertension, diabetes and stroke. The University of Ottawa Heart Institute had program items in all of these subject areas— nearly 120 in all...
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) has announced support for Katey Rayner, PhD, of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) in partnership with co-principal investigators in France and Spain as part of the European Research...
The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) Faculty of Medicine has bestowed Dr. Rob Beanlands, deputy director general of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), with an award of distinction for lifetime achievement. The Lifetime Achievement Award honours an alumnus or alumna who has accomplished a...
Since the initial proposal was developed in 2004, the road to expansion for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute has been a long one. The Province of Ontario announcement in August 2011 of funding to expand and update facilities at the Heart Institute had been greatly anticipated. Since the...
RAPID GENE, the first-ever bedside genetic test, has received peer-reviewed validation in The Lancet, the world’s leading general medical journal. As first reported in The Beat (Volume 7, Issue 1), RAPID GENE is a point-of-care genetic test that uses a simple cheek swab to assess whether a patient...
The following areas are for use by specific groups within the University of Ottawa Heart Institute: Heart Hub - UOHI Staff Intranet Clinical Services Education Portal UOHI Mandatory Training Tutorial Adding a Webinar event to your calendar (PDF)