Archive
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May 2012RAPID GENE, the first-ever bedside genetic test, has received peer-reviewed validation in The Lancet, the world’s leading general medical journal.
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May 2012The Heart Institute has adapted its Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation so that it may be used by primary care physicians.
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May 2012In March 2012, Dr. Rob Beanlands was appointed Chief of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
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May 2012Dr. Dupuis assumed leadership of Cardiac Anesthesiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in March 2012.
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May 2012Dr. Ruel’s recently travelled to India, where he trained more than 250 experienced cardiac surgeons in minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting.
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May 2012The Heart Institute and Qingdao Municipal Hospital have entered a five-year cooperative agreement under which Heart Institute physicians will mentor the rapidly growing cardiac medicine program in the booming Asian city.
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February 2012Heart Institute researchers develop the first-ever point-of-care genetic test and determine interferon alpha is a genetic marker for CAD.
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February 2012The Heart Institutes ranks high in the recently released SCImago Institutions Rankings [SIR] World Report on the research impact of institutions and companies worldwide.
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February 2012George Wells, PhD, has been honoured for his landmark work in advancing care for heart failure patients.
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February 2012The impact of healthy diet, salt, and obesity on blood pressure.
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February 2012Julie Rutberg, Genetic Counsellor at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute since 2005, has been elected incoming President of the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors.
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December 2011The State of the Science Lecture on Women and Heart Disease by Anne Rosenfeld of the Oregon Health Sciences University made it