Harindra Wijeysundera, MD
Harindra Wijeysundera, MD
Schulich Heart Center, Sunnybrook University of Toronto
Toronto,
ON
CANADA
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Wijeysundera is the Chief of the Schulich Heart Program, and Head of the Division of Cardiology, at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center. He is as an interventional cardiologist and a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute as well as an adjunct senior scientist at ICES. He is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto. His clinical practice is focused on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and coronary chronic total occlusions. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Structural Heart Disease Policy and Outcomes; his research program focuses on health technology assessments in cardiovascular disease. He has been actively involved in health system leadership. From 2017-2020, he was the VP for Medical Devices at the Canadian Drug Agency. In 2022, he was appointed as the inaugural Provincial Cardiac Lead for CorHealth-Ontario Health.
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