Our Researchers

Henry Duff

Cardiology Professor

Research areas: diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disturbances; structure/function of the hERG potassium channel both in vitro and in vivo; new strategies to treat cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death

Darrell Belke

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lead, Cardiovascular Physiology Core

Associate member

Research areas: 

S.R. Wayne Chen

Professor

Research areas: Cardiac arrhythmias, Cardiomyopathies, Sudden cardiac death, Learning and memory, Pain, Ataxia, Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Autism, Bipolar disorder, Intracellular calcium handling, Ryanodine receptors, Inositol, 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors

Derek Exner

Professor

Research areas: heart rhythm problems, cardiac devices

Robert Rose

Professor 

Department of Cardiac Sciences

Research areas: cardiac arrhythmias; sinoatrial node dysfunction; atrial fibrillation

Paul Fedak

Professor

Director, Marlene and Don Campbell Translational Research Laboratory

Research areas: epicardial infarct repair; human cardiac fibrosis; inflammation based remodelling; bicuspid aortic valve hemodynamics; adhesive enhanced sternal closure

Robert J. French

Professor

Research areas: Structure and function of voltage-gated ion channels, Voltage-gated ion channels in the control of pancreatic insulin secretion, Structural basis of toxin and drug targeting to voltage-gated sodium channels, μ-Conotoxin-sodium channel interactions, Molecular basis and (patho-)physiological roles of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore

Brenda Gerull

Adjunct Assistant Professor Cardiologist and Geneticist AHFMR Clinical Investigator

Research areas: Clinical genetics of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies and congenital heart disease; Molecular genetics of cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias, Disease mechanisms of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), Mapping of disease genes and modifiers, Characterizing of disease genes in different model systems, Recombinant mouse models of human disease

Wayne Giles

Professor

Research areas: electrophysiology; electrical impulses that initiate and modulate the heartbeat; understanding cell function by detecting and in some cases controlling the cell’s electrical activity

Katherine M. Kavanagh

Associate Professor

Research areas: Cardiac arrhythmias; Myocardial activation and conduction; Cell-to-cell communication

Jonathan Howlett

Clinical Professor

Research areas: clinical trial research in heart failure, end of life care, evaluation of health care delivery systems, healthcare outcomes, and knowledge translation

Vikas P. Kuriachan

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: Arrhythmia ablation; cardiac devices; and consultation letters

L. Brent Mitchell

Professor

Research areas: clinical cardiac electrophysiology, particularly in the clinical science of tachyarrhythmias

Anders Nygren

Associate Professor

Research areas: Cardiac electrophysiology, ion channels, arrhythmias, mechanisms underlying cardiac electrophysiological remodeling in disease

P. Timothy Pollak

Professor

Russell Quinn

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: intracellular calcium handling in relation to contractile performance and arrhythmogenesis

Mike Slawnych

Clinical Assistant Professor

Anne Gillis

Professor

Deputy Director, Libin Cardiovascular Institute

Research Areas: treatments and therapies to prevent atrial fibrillation, a common abnormal heart rhythm disorder

Glen L. Sumner

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: His research interests include selection and optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy using cardiac imaging techniques

Henk ter Keurs

Emeritus Professor

Research areas: causes and treatment of heart failure

George D. (Yorgo) Veenhuyzen

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: catheter ablation therapy for cardiac arrhythmias

James White

Professor
Director, Stephenson Cardiovascular MR Centre

Research areas: Cardiac MRI

Stephen B. Wilton

Associate Professor

Gerald W. Zamponi

Professor

Senior Associate Dean (Research), Canada Research Chair

Associate Member

Research areas: roles of voltage gated calcium channels in controlling the electrical activities of neurons, how they are compromised in various neurological disorders and, more specifically, how they can be targeted for the development of new therapeutics for pain; Deciphering the functional connectomics of brain circuits that control sensory and emotional components of pain; the role of cellular prion protein in neurodegenerative disorders