Canadian Cardiovascular Society

Our Donors

Donations of time and money from individuals and organizations make our valued CCSA programs possible. Thank you for supporting the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Academy!

CCSA Faculty Volunteers   |   Financial Donations

Thank you to the people who have donated their time to CCSA initiatives

A special thank you to all faculty members of the Adult Cardiology and the Pediatric Cardiology Trainee Review Programs (TRPs) in Toronto on November 24-26, 2023. Your dedication, time and energy in supporting the next generation of cardiologists is highly valued.

Adult Cardiology TRP

Pediatric Cardiology TRP

Cardiac Surgery TRP

We extend our sincere gratitude to the following past recipients of the CCSA Have a Heart Bursary, for generously sharing their time and insights and provide valuable feedback on CCSA’s work. 

Julia Cadrin-Tourigny
Anita Chan
Mark Chandy
Yuchen Dai
Debraj Das
Nicholas Grubic
Patricia Longmuir

Christina Luong
Robert Miller
Lebei Pi
Nariman Sepehrvand
Shubham Soni
Anna Zarzycki 


Visionary ($5,000 and up)

Michelle Graham
Nisar Huq
Joseph Fomusi Ndisang
Sean A. Virani

President’s Circle ($1,000 – $4,999)

James G. Abel
Anne M. Gillis
Noah Ivers
Andrew D. Krahn
Howard M. Leong-Poi
Cedric Manlhiot
Jon-David R. Schwalm
Stuart J. Smith

Benefactors ($500 – $999)

Mohammad Almutawa
Martin J. Gardner
Doug A. Hayami
Jonathan G. Howlett
William F. McIntyre
Ata-ur-Rehman Quraishi
John Sapp

Friends (up to $499)

Wael Abuzeid
Jeremy William Adams
Meighan H. M. Adams
Sandeep G. Aggarwal
Vahid Akbari
Jawed Akhtar
Omar Alansari
Ana Carolina C. Alba
Anhar Alhussaini
Imtiaz S. Ali
Ahmed Hamad Aljizeeri
Mahmoud Alsalehi
Juglans Alvarez
Nanette A. Alvarez
Jeffrey Anchan
Kim Anderson
Todd J. Anderson
Paul Angaran
Daniel D. Anselm
Laura A. Arbour
Richard Audet
Richard Audet
Alper Aydin
Fabian Alejandro A. Azzari
Kevin Bainey
Ravi Bajaj
Gerald Barbeau
Jean-François Baril
Arsène Basmadjian
Rob S.B. Beanlands
Harald Becher
Lucie Bédard
Alexandra Bell
Lynn Bergin
David J. Bewick
Azim Bharmal
Gopal Bhatnagar
Lior Bibas
Filio Billia
Jonathan Bishinsky
Sarah Blissett
Munir Boodhwani
Jeff Booker
Robert H. Boone
Douglas Boyd
Neil Brass
Myriam Brassard
Ian Britton
Nathan W. Brunner
Gary Burggraf
Barry Burstein
Mbuyu Bushidi
Craig R. Butler
Kristyn R. Campbell
Ronald Carere
Jean-Christophe Carvalho
Margaret B. Cases
Marie-Alexandre Chaix
Mark Joseph Chandy
Robert Chen
Annabel A. Chen-Tournoux
James Cherry
Adrian N. Chikwanha
Richard Choi
Annie Y. Chou
Chi-Ming Chow
Haley Elizabeth Christian
Grace L. Chua
Robert Chun
Tomas Cieza
Brian Clarke
Robin Clegg
Jamie N. Cohen
Kim A. Connelly
Richard Cook
Francisco Jose Cordova Perez
Paolo Costi
Anita Cote
Brian Courtney
Benoit Coutu
Kelly Orlo Coverett
Simone Cowan
Richard Crowell
Scott J. Curran
Robert James J. Cusimano
Cristiana Da Cunha Zeno Borjaille
Nagib Dahdah
Frédéric Dallaire
Lorretta Daniel
Michel D’Astous
Ryan Davey
Ross A A. Davies
Margot K. Davis
Mark Davis
Peggy M. De Jong
Saswata Deb
Diego H. Delgado
Marie-France Delorme
Valerie Desjardins
Lauren Dewart
Marc W. Deyell
Santokh Singh Dhillon
Pantelis Diamantouros
Ariel H. Diaz
Paul Dorian
Barbara Stella Doumouras
Robin Ducas
Anique Ducharme
Juan G. Duero Posada
Janine Eckstein
Abboud Fahoum
Neil Fam
Jessica Forcillo
Marcel Fournier
Darren Freed
Michael Froeschl
Deborah Fruitman
Aldo A. Furlani
François Gagnon
Jonathan Andrew Gale
David Garcia Labbe
Nadine Gauthier
Aly Ghoneim
Nicholas Giacomantonio
Nadia Giannetti
Kenneth Gin
Kim Girard
Christopher A. Glover

François Gobeil
Carolina Gonzaga Carvalho
Shaun G. Goodman
Tirath Gosal Sadhra
Gilbert Gosselin
John J. Graham
Andrew DM Grant
Michael Grattan
Isabelle Greiss
Jasmine Grewal
Gabor T. Gyenes
Adnan Hameed
Nader Hanna
Mikael Hanninen
Louise Harris
Michael C. Hartleib
Paula Harvey
Magdi Mohamed Hassan Hassanin
Samir Kumar Hazra
Jeff Healey
Rob Hegele
Brett G. Heilbron
Laurie L. Hill
Ali Hillani
Rajesh Hiralal
Natalie M. Ho
George Honos
Lisa Hornberger
Gabrielle Horne
Martin C.K. Hosking
Christine Houde
Robert J. Howard
Adam John Howes
Ashlay A. Huitema
Thao Huynh
Kevin Ippersiel
Debra Isaac
George Jablonsky
Simon Jackson
Iqbal H. Jaffer
John Janevski
Angelo Dave Javier
Christopher B. Johnson
Sébastien Joncas
Dominique Joyal
Jacqueline Joza
Michal J. Kantoch
Anmol Singh Kapoor
Qutuba G. Karwi
Katherine M. Kavanagh
William Keeble
Catherine Kells
Clarence Khoo
Michael Khoury
Bakhtiar J. Kidwai
William J. Kostuk
Simon Kouz
Sidney Kremer
Albert J. Kryski
Andreas Kumar
Vikas Kuriachan
Dominique J. Kushneriuk
Christopher C. Lai
Buu-Khanh Lam
Yoan Lamarche
Jennifer Landry
Eric Larose
Michel Le May
Rolland M. Leader
Richard A. Leather
Marie-Hélène H. LeBlanc
Rina Lee
Tony Lee
Sylvie Legault
Robert Lemery
Peter P. Leong-Sit
Emilie LeRoux
Charles CH Lin
Peter Liu
Evan E. Lockwood
Kristin Jean Lyons
Jakub Maj
Susanna Mak
Peiman Malek-Marzban
Usha Manian
Samer Mansour
Robert Maranda
Evan Martow
Cindy Mason
Jean-Bernard Masson
Roy G. Masters
Michael McDonald
Cathy McLellan
Steven R. Meyer
Mohammad Miah
Stephane Michel
Vesna Mihajlovic
Hassan Mir
Gordon W. Moe
Andrew D. Moeller
Tapas Mondal
Blandine A. Mondésert
Francois-Pierre Mongeon
Jacobo Moreno Garijo
Jean F. Morin
Andrew L. Morris
Paul G. Morrison
Negareh Mousavi
Andrew Mulloy
Sharon L. Mulvagh
Parvathy Nair
Kishan K. Narine
Madhu K. Natarajan
Stanley Nattel
Isabelle Nault
Victor Mauricio Neira Vidal
Gillian Nesbitt
Phong Nguyen-Ho
Pierre-Emmanuel Noly
Kambiz Norozi
Paul G. Novak
Erwin Oechslin
Paul Oh
Eileen O’Meara
Blair J. O’Neill
Gavin Y. Oudit
Chris Overgaard
Donald Palisaitis


Sarah Parent
Ratika Parkash
Thomas G. Parker
Ajai K. Pasricha
Ian Paterson
Glen J. Pearson
Michel Pellerin
Dionissios Pepelassis
Pierre-Nicolas Perron
Cheryl Peters
Vivian Petropoulos
François Philippon
Philippe Pibarot
J Geoffrey Pickering
Claude Pilon
Benoit Plourde
Paul Poirier
Paul Timothy Pollak
Stephanie Poon
Brian J. Potter
Steven Promislow
Patrick Prud’homme
Brendan Quinn
F. Russell Quinn
Marie-Josée Raboisson
John L R Rabson
Errol Raff
Jennifer RajalaVivian S. Rambihar
Sarah A. Ramer
Rajeev V. Rao
Vivek Rao
Jean-Marc Raymond
Christopher Reid
Joe A. Ricci
Gaetan Ringuette
Léna Rivard
Bernadette Robertson
Atoosheh Rohani
Colin Rose
Heather J. Ross
Denis Roy
Fraser Rubens
Lawrence G. Rudski
Marc Ruel
Jennifer Russell
Ayaaz K. Sachedina
Mahwash Saeed
Antonio Salazar Uribe
Omid Salehian
Khal Salem
Paul Sandhu
Roopinder Sandhu
Anthony J. Sanfilippo
Sakethram Saravu Vijayashankar
Erick Schampaert
Gregory B. Schnell
Bogdan Schwarz
Markus Schwerzmann
Joel Aaron Scott-Herridge
Hugh E. Scully
Igal A. Sebag
Colette Seifer
Isabelle Senechal
François Sestier
Yana Shamiss
Miriam Shanks
Jeff Shaw
Robert Sheldon
Khaled Shelig
Mohammed Shurrab
Douanne Siew
Susan Simister
Brian G. Sinclair
Gurmeet Singh
Vincent Siu
Brian Sonnenberg
Christian M. Steinberg
Laurence D. Sterns
Marcio L. Sturmer
Asem Suliman
Jan Surkes
Neville G. Suskin
Bruce Sussex, MBBS
Elizabeth A. Swiggum
Rafik Tadros
Peter Tan
Anthony Tang
Jonathan Tang
Jean-François Tanguay
Jean-Claude Tardif
Dylan A. Taylor
Patrick Teefy
Robert Teskey
Andrew Thain
Varsha Thakur
Edythe B. Tham
Michael Thibert
Nicolas Thibodeau-Jarry
Lawrence Title
Lauren Tobe
Olga Toleva
Thanh-Thao Ton-Nu
Bernice Tsang
Michael Brennon Tsang
Wayne J. Tymchak
Benjamin D. Tyrrell
Jacob A. Udell
Martin Van Zyl
Atul Verma
Pierre Voisine
Isabelle Vonder Muhll
Robert W. Wald
Mathieu A. Walker
James W. Warnica
Andrew Warren
Jordan C. Webber
Robert Welsh
Harindra C. Wijeysundera
Anne E. Williams
Graham C. Wong
Kenny K. Wong
David A. Wood
Andrew T. Yan
Tawfiq Zeidan Shwiri
Xi (Jacksy) Zhao
Mohamad Zibdawi
Sayeh Zielke
Shelley Zieroth


Donations received between October 1, 2023 and September 30, 2024

Visionary ($5,000 and up)

Michelle Graham
Nisar Huq
Karen Kerr

President’s Circle ($1,000 – $4,999)

Andrew D. Krahn
Anne M. Gillis
Dakshina R. Murthy
Filio Billia
Jacqueline Joza
Jonathan G. Howlett
Christopher S. Simpson

Sean A. Virani
James G. Abel
Lorretta Daniel
Doug A. Hayami
Simon Jackson
Marla C. Kiess
Howard M. Leong-Poi

Evan E. Lockwood
Brian J. Potter
Robert Sheldon
Samuel C. Siu
Mouhieddin Traboulsi
Rodney Zimmermann

Benefactors ($500 – $999)

Paul Poirier
Martin J. Gardner
Marc Ruel
Han Kim

Marie-Hélène H. LeBlanc
William F. McIntyre
Ata-ur-Rehman Quraishi

Stuart J. Smith
Wadea Tarhuni
Mustafa Toma

Friends (up to $499)

Mohammad Almutawa
Myriam Brassard
Jean-Christophe Carvalho
Isabelle Nault
John Sapp
Erick Schampaert
Arsène Basmadjian
Paul G. Morrison
Glen J. Pearson
Kwan Leung  Chan
Mbuyu Bushidi
Annabel A. Chen-Tournoux
Richard Choi
Simone Cowan
Margot K. Davis
Paul Dorian
Carolina Gonzaga Carvalho
Debra Isaac
Katherine M. Kavanagh
Catherine Kells
Clarence Khoo
Vikas Kuriachan
Dominique J. Kushneriuk
Richard A. Leather
Samer Mansour
Blair J. O’Neill
Sarah A. Ramer
Colin Rose
Fraser Rubens
Paul Timothy Pollak
Catherine Demers
William J. Kostuk
Ahmed Abdi
Ali Sandeep G. Aggarwal
Vahid  Akbari
Jawed Akhtar
Mohammed Al Aklabi
Omar Alansari
Anhar Alhussaini
Imtiaz S. Ali
Cynthia Allard
Nezar Alsaeedi
Mahmoud Alsalehi
David A. Alter
Kim Anderson
Todd J. Anderson
Paul Angaran
Pavel A. Antiperovitch
Laura A. Arbour
Madeleine Auclair
Richard Audet
Felix Ayala-Paredes
Alper Aydin
Fabian Alejandro Azzari
Kevin Bainey
Walid Barake
Gerald Barbeau
Jean-François
Baril Harald Becher
David Belzile
Nicolas Berbenetz
Lynn Bergin
David J. Bewick
Azim Bharmal
Marie-Hélène Blain
Sarah Blissett
Peter Bogaty
Jasmina Boskovic-Petrovic
Neil Brass
Nathan W. Brunner
Craig R. Butler
Duke Edward Cameron
Ronald Carere
Marie-Alexandre Chaix
Santabhanu Chakrabarti
Mark Joseph Chandy
James Cherry
Robert J. Chisholm
Annie Y. Chou
Grace L. Chua
Robert Chun
Brian Clarke
Robin Clegg
Jamie N. Cohen
Kim A. Connelly
Francisco Jose Cordova Perez
Benoit Coutu
Kelly Orlo Coverett
Richard Crowell
Yong Cui
Robert James J. Cusimano
Michel D’Astous
Nagib Dahdah
Frédéric Dallaire
Ian C. Darcel
Ryan Davey
Louis-Philippe David
Ross A A. Davies
Mark Davis
Peggy M. De Jong
Valerie Desjardins
Marc W. Deyell
Santokh Singh Dhillon
Krista Doiron
Michel Doucet
Barbara Stella Doumouras
Christian Drolet Marc Dubuc

Anique Ducharme
Juan G. Duero Posada
Francis Dupont
Vladimir Dzavik
Andrew Fagan
David Fell
Marcel Fournier
Darren Freed
Michael Froeschl
Deborah Fruitman
Angel Yi Nam Fu
Erik Fung
Aldo A. Furlani
François Gagnon
Marie Galvao
David Garcia Labbe
Nadine Gauthier
Nadia Giannetti
Genevieve Giraldeau
Christopher A. Glover
François Gobeil
Shaun G. Goodman
Tirath Gosal Sadhra
Robert M. Gow
John J. Graham
Martin S. Green
Jasmine Grewal
Gabor T. Gyenes
Nader Hanna
Simon Peter Hansom
David Harnett
Louise Harris
Michael C. Hartleib
Paula Harvey
Magdi Mohamed Hassan Hassanin
Samir Kumar Hazra
Jeff Healey
Rob Hegele
Laurie L. Hill
Gregory M. Hirsch
Osami Honjo
George Honos
Lisa Hornberger
Martin C.K. Hosking
Christine Houde
Robert J. Howard
Adam John Howes
Victor F. Huckell
Thao  Huynh
George Jablonsky
Frédéric Jacques
John  Janevski
Christopher B. Johnson
Michal J. Kantoch
Arsha Karbassi
Peter Kavsak
David Kazhila
Jennifer L. Kennedy
Razi Azhar Khan
Guerman  Kisselman
Yousery Koubaesh
Sidney Kremer
Albert J. Kryski
Yoan Lamarche
Eric Larose
Michel Le May
Richard A. Leather
Douglas S. Lee
Tony Lee
Sylvie Legault
Robert Lemery
Peter Liu
Kristin Jean Lyons
John C. MacFadyen
Gyaandeo S. Maharajh
Susanna Mak
Peiman Malek-Marzban
Usha Manian
David R. Marr
Evan Martow
Cindy Mason
Jean-Bernard Masson
Roy G. Masters
Isaac Bertin Mbonjo
Steven R. Meyer
Mohammad Miah
Vesna Mihajlovic
Hassan Mir
Francois-Pierre Mongeon
Chris D. Morgan
Jean F. Morin
Negareh Mousavi
Sharon L. Mulvagh
Rajgopaul Naidu
Parvathy Nair
Madhu K. Natarajan
Stanley Nattel
Victor Mauricio Neira Vidal
Viviane TQ Nguyen
Phong Nguyen-Ho
Narsimha Sudhir Nishtala
Colleen M. Norris
Eileen O’Meara
Erwin Oechslin
Paul Oh
Chris Overgaard
Pierre Pagé
Donald Palisaitis

Ratika Parkash
Thomas G. Parker
Ian Paterson
Stephen Pearce
Pierre-Nicolas Perron
Vivian Petropoulos
François Philippon
Shannon Sujata Pillay
Claude Pilon
Andrew Pipe
Kevin J. Pistawka
Stephanie Poon
Glen Price
Steven Promislow
Kenneth Quadros
Brendan Quinn F.
Russell Quinn
Marie-Josée Raboisson
Errol Raff Jennifer Rajala
Vivek Rao
Steven Lee Rathgeber
Joe A. Ricci
Gaetan Ringuette
Léna Rivard Atoosheh Rohani
Heather J. Ross
Jean-François Roux
Denis Roy
Karine Roy
Jennifer Russell
Mahwash Saeed
Antonio Salazar Uribe
Omid Salehian
Shubhayan Sanatani
Paul Sandhu
Sakethram Saravu Vijayashankar
Bogdan Schwarz
Kamal Sharma
Jeff Shaw
Khaled Shelig
Gurmeet Singh
Brian Sonnenberg
Kajenny Srivaratharajah
Christian M.
Steinberg
James Arthur A. Stone
Marcio L. Sturmer
Asem Suliman
Jan Surkes
Neville G. Suskin
Bruce Sussex, MBBS
Elizabeth A. Swiggum
Peter Tan
Anthony Tang
Jonathan Tang
Jean-Claude Tardif
Dylan A. Taylor
Patrick Teefy
Robert Teskey
Michael Thibert
Toan B. To
Sheldon W. Tobe
Jonathan Keith Todd
Olga Toleva
Christopher Triggle
Michael Brennon Tsang
Wayne J. Tymchak
Benjamin D. Tyrrell
Jacob A. Udell
Martin Van Zyl
James L. Velianou
Isabelle Vonder Muhll
Stephan W. Wardell
Andrew Warren
Jordan C. Webber
Robert Welsh
Willy Weng
Joshua B. Wenner
Harindra C. Wijeysundera
Graham C. Wong
Kenny K. Wong
David A. Wood
Xi (Jacksy) Zhao
Sayeh  Zielke
Shelley Zieroth
Nicolas Thibodeau-Jarry
Tsighereda Rose Yosief
Andrew D. Moeller
Isabelle Greiss
Patrick Magloire
Lazar Milovanovic
Zardasht Oqab
Vivian S. Rambihar
Mounir Rizk
Iryna Shovkivska
Laurence D. Sterns
Thanh-Thao  Ton-Nu
Mathieu A. Walker
Janet/Kirk Gore
Thet Khaing
Kerri-Anne Mullen
Abeline Watkins

Community Donors

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The Canadian Cardiovascular Society Academy gratefully acknowledges the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) for supporting our future cardiovascular professionals.


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