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!
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Thank you to the people who have donated their time to CCSA initiatives
CCSA Focus Group Champions
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
Donations received between October 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026
Visionary ($5,000 and up)
Michelle Graham
Sean A. Virani
President’s Circle ($1,000 – $4,999)
James G. Abel
Chi-Ming Chow
Derek V. Exner
Anne M. Gillis
Nassoh Hafez
Andrew D. Krahn
David Langleben
Howard M. Leong-Poi
Evan E. Lockwood
Nikita Malhotra
Dakshina R. Murthy
Joseph Fomusi Ndisang
John Sapp
Rodney Zimmermann
Benefactor ($500 – $999)
Felix Ayala-Paredes
Debraj Das
Claire Guillemette
Jonathan G. Howlett
Frédéric Poulin
Mustafa Toma
Friends (Up to $499)
Wael Abuzeid
Meighan H. M. Adams
Sandeep G. Aggarwal
Vahid Akbari
Jawed Akhtar
Ana Carolina C. Alba
Bryce Alexander
Imtiaz S. Ali
Lina Alkasm
Joel Allen
Mohammad Almutawa
Mahmoud Alsalehi
Faizan Amin
Jeffrey Anchan
Gregor Andelfinger
Kim Anderson
Todd J. Anderson
Dawn Anderson
Paul Angaran
Mohamed-Salah Annabi
Daniel D. Anselm
Laura A. Arbour
Paul W. Armstrong
Richard Audet
Alper Aydin
Kevin Bainey
Jean-François Baril
Alexandra Barriault
Arsène Basmadjian
Rob S.B. Beanlands
Mélanie Beaulé
Roland George Beaulieu
Alexandra Bell
Anita Bell
David J. Bewick
Gopal Bhatnagar
Filio Billia
Jonathan Bishinsky
Jeff Blommers
Douglas Boyd
Neil Brass
Jean-Bernard Breau
Ian Britton
Liam Brunham
Nathan W. Brunner
Gary Burggraf
Barry Burstein
Mbuyu Bushidi
Craig R. Butler
Oscar Calvillo Arguelles
Caleigh Campbell
Kristyn R. Campbell
Jean-Christophe Carvalho
Mangeet Chahal
Marie-Alexandre Chaix
Santabhanu Chakrabarti
Mark Joseph Chandy
Anjala Chelvanathan
Robert Chen
Annabel A. Chen-Tournoux
Adrian N. Chikwanha
Richard Choi
Annie Y. Chou-Simpson
Justin Y. Chow
Haley Elizabeth Christian
Grace L. Chua
Tomas Cieza
Brian Clarke
Robin Clegg
Chloe Cleroux
Jamie N. Cohen
Kim A. Connelly
Katie Connolly
Richard Cook
Luc Cormier
Paolo Costi
Claudia L. Cote
Benoit Coutu
Simone Cowan
Jafna L. Cox
Scott J. Curran
Nagib Dahdah
Frédéric Dallaire
Lorretta Daniel
Michel D’Astous
Edward Davies
Margot K. Davis
Mark Davis
Peggy M. De Jong
Saswata Deb
Diego H. Delgado
Catherine Demers
Marc W. Deyell
Maria Di Lorenzo
Pantelis Diamantouros
Ariel H. Diaz
Paul Dorian
Barbara Stella Doumouras
Christian Drolet
Anique Ducharme
Juan G. Duero Posada
Janine Eckstein
Wael Elabbassi
Tamer Elghobary
Abboud Fahoum
Neil Fam
Paul WM Fedak
Jessica Forcillo
Farid Foroutan
Darren Freed
Michael Froeschl
Deborah Fruitman
Lisa Gaglione
Daniel Gagnon
François Gagnon
Nadine Gauthier
Nadia Giannetti
Kenneth Gin
Kim Girard
François Gobeil
Carolina Gonzaga Carvalho
Shaun G. Goodman
Pishoy Gouda
John J. Graham
Andrew DM Grant
Michael Grattan
Isabelle Greiss
Jasmine Grewal
Gabor T. Gyenes
Andrew Ha
Naiyer Habib
Paul M. Hacker
Hourmazd Haghbayan
Frank Halperin
Adnan Hameed
Nader Hanna
Mikael Hanninen
Louise Harris
Kevin Harris
Paula Harvey
Magdi Mohamed Hassan Hassanin
Doug A. Hayami
Jeff Healey
Rob Hegele
Mark Henderson
Laurie L. Hill
Ali Hillani
Rajesh Hiralal
Osami Honjo
Gabrielle Horne
Martin C.K. Hosking
Christine Houde
Robert J. Howard
Nisar Huq
Mansoor Husain
Debra Isaac
Umar Ismail
Cynthia Jackevicius
John Janevski
Angelo Dave Javier
Alexandra Jevremovic
Christopher B. Johnson
Dominique Joyal
Ursula Jurt
Michal J. Kantoch
Qutuba G. Karwi
Clarence Khoo
Michael Khoury
Bakhtiar J. Kidwai
James Kim
Roxanne Kirsch
Andrew Kochan
Simon Kouz
Sidney Kremer
Albert J. Kryski
Andreas Kumar
Emily Lai
Buu-Khanh Lam
Yoan Lamarche
Jennifer Landry
Heather Lannon
David Latter
Michel Le May
Nathan Leader
Richard A. Leather
Marie-Hélène H. LeBlanc
Douglas S. Lee
Rina Lee
Tony Lee
Sylvie Legault
Benjamin Leis
Peter P. Leong-Sit
Emilie LeRoux
Peter Liu
Jane Lougheed
Kristin Jean Lyons
John C. MacFadyen
Patrick Magloire
Gyaandeo S. Maharajh
Jakub Maj
Susanna Mak
Peiman Malek-Marzban
Usha Manian
Samer Mansour
Evan Martow
Jean-Bernard Masson
Michael McDonald
Michael H. McGillion
William F. McIntyre
Cathy McLellan
Candace McNaughton
Vesna Mihajlovic
Akram Mikaeilpour
Hassan Mir
Gordon W. Moe
Andrew D. Moeller
Tapas Mondal
Francois-Pierre Mongeon
Jacobo Moreno Garijo
Chris D. Morgan
Jean F. Morin
Andrew L. Morris
Paul G. Morrison
Negareh Mousavi
Andrew Mulloy
Sharon L. Mulvagh
A. Dave Nagpal
Parvathy Nair
Kishan K. Narine
Stanley Nattel
Isabelle Nault
Victor Mauricio Neira Vidal
Tara Nelson
Gillian Nesbitt
Kathryn Noiles
Pierre-Emmanuel Noly
Colleen M. Norris
Hirmand Nouraei
Erwin Oechslin
Paul Oh
Blair J. O’Neill
Kevin Ong
Jonathon Osborne
Gavin Y. Oudit
Chris Overgaard
Donald Palisaitis
Amélie Paquin
Sarah Parent
Ratika Parkash
Thomas G. Parker
Simon Parlow
Glen J. Pearson
Milenko Petrovich
François Philippon
Philippe Pibarot
Benoit Plourde
Paul Poirier
Petr Polasek
Stephanie Poon
Brian J. Potter
Steven Promislow
Carolyn Pullen
Brendan Quinn
F. Russell Quinn
Ata-ur-Rehman Quraishi
Ali Rabi
Marie-Josée Raboisson
Hugo-Pierre Racine
Errol Raff
Jennifer Rajala
Vivek Rao
Jennifer Reed
Christopher Reid
Joseph A. Ricci
Gaetan Ringuette
Léna Rivard
Fernando Rivera-Theurel
Colin Rose
Heather J. Ross
Karine Roy
Fraser Rubens
Marc Ruel
Jennifer Russell
Ayaaz K. Sachedina
Mahwash Saeed
Antonio Salazar Uribe
Omid Salehian
Paul Sandhu
Roopinder Sandhu
Allan Schaffer
Erick Schampaert
Joel Aaron Scott-Herridge
Hugh E. Scully
Igal A. Sebag
François Sestier
Ashish H. Shah
Yana Shamiss
Miriam Shanks
Abhinav Sharma
Kamal Sharma
Robert Sheldon
Douanne Siew
Gurmeet Singh
Vickram Singh
Marvin Slepian
Stuart J. Smith
Anita Soni
Christian M. Steinberg
James Arthur A. Stone
Asem Suliman
Neville G. Suskin
Bruce Sussex
Babin Suzanne
Elizabeth A. Swiggum
Rafik Tadros
Peter Tan
Anthony Tang
Jean-François Tanguay
Patrick Teefy
Andrew Thain
Varsha Thakur
Edythe B. Tham
Michael Thibert
Nicolas Thibodeau-Jarry
Lauren Tobe
Sheldon W. Tobe
Jonathan Keith Todd
Thanh-Thao Ton-Nu
Francois Tournoux
Sebastien Trop
Bernice Tsang
Pierre Yves Turgeon
Keila Turino Miranda
Wayne J. Tymchak
Benjamin D. Tyrrell
Jacob A. Udell
Martin Van Zyl
James L. Velianou
Atul Verma
Donna Vine
Robert W. Wald
Mathieu A. Walker
Rachel Wamboldt
Michael R. Ward
Andrew Warren
Jordan C. Webber
Robert Welsh
Kenny K. Wong
Anna Woo
David A. Wood
Bobby Yanagawa
Terrence M. Yau
Tina R. Zhu
Mohamad Zibdawi
Sayeh Zielke
Shelley Zieroth
Donations received between October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
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 |
| Sarah Blissett |
| Anne M. Gillis |
| Noah Ivers |
| Catherine Kells |
| Marla C. Kiess |
| Andrew D. Krahn |
| Howard M. Leong-Poi |
| Cedric Manlhiot |
| William F. McIntyre |
| Jon-David R. Schwalm |
| Stuart J. Smith |
| Dakshina R. Murthy |
| Darren J. Robertson |
| Blair J. O’Neill |
Benefactors ($500 – $999)
| Mohammad Almutawa |
| Martin J. Gardner |
| Doug A. Hayami |
| Jonathan G. Howlett |
| Evan E. Lockwood |
| Ata-ur-Rehman Quraishi |
| John Sapp |
| Robert Sheldon |
| Bahram Mohebbi |
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 |
| Abdul A. Al-Hesayen |
| 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 |
| Barbara Ashton |
| 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 |
| Munir Boodhwani |
| Jeff Booker |
| Robert H. Boone |
| Douglas Boyd |
| Neil Brass |
| Myriam Brassard |
| Ian Britton |
| Liam Brunham |
| 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 |
| Alexandra Jevremovic |
| David W. Dorian |
| Eileen O’Meara |
| Gopal Bhatnagar |
| Jose Medina |
| Martin S. Green |
| Patrick Prud’homme |
| Sayeh Zielke |
| Gopal Bhatnagar |
| Nathalie Dionne |
| Ali Hillani |
| Dominique Joyal |
| Kerri-Anne Mullen, Scientist |
| Blair J. O’Neill |
| Joseph A. Ricci |
| Pierre Voisine |
| 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 |
| Frédéric Jacques |
| Iqbal H. Jaffer |
| John Janevski |
| Angelo Dave Javier |
| Aamir Jeewa |
| Christopher B. Johnson |
| Sébastien Joncas |
| Dominique Joyal |
| Jacqueline Joza |
| Michal J. Kantoch |
| Anmol Singh Kapoor |
| Qutuba G. Karwi |
| Katherine M. Kavanagh |
| William Keeble |
| 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 |
| Kristin Jean Lyons |
| Jakub Maj |
| Susanna Mak |
| Peiman Malek-Marzban |
| Usha Manian |
| Samer Mansour |
| Robert Maranda |
| Lucie Marcoux |
| Evan Martow |
| Cindy Mason |
| Jean-Bernard Masson |
| Roy G. Masters |
| Michael McDonald |
| James McKinney |
| 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 |
| Kevin Ong |
| Gavin Y. Oudit |
| Chris Overgaard |
| Donald Palisaitis |
| Sarah Parent |
| Ratika Parkash |
| Thomas G. Parker |
| Ali Hillani |
| Dominique Joyal |
| Fabian Alejandro A. Azzari |
| James Arthur A. Stone |
| Kevin Harris |
| Michel D’Astous |
| Paul Oh |
| Simon Peter Hansom |
| Thao Huynh |
| Parisa Hajimirzarahimshirazi |
| Thao Huynh |
| Ali Kazemi Saeid |
| Gillian Nesbitt |
| Patrick Prud’homme |
| Lawrence Title |
| Sayeh Zielke |
| Ajai K. Pasricha |
| Ian Paterson |
| Glen J. Pearson |
| Michel Pellerin |
| Dionissios Pepelassis |
| Marie-Paule Perrier |
| Pierre-Nicolas Perron |
| Cheryl Peters |
| Vivian Petropoulos |
| François Philippon |
| Philippe Pibarot |
| J Geoffrey Pickering |
| Marie Pigeyre |
| 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 Rajala |
| Vivian S. Rambihar |
| Sarah A. Ramer |
| Rajeev V. Rao |
| Vivek Rao |
| Steven Lee Rathgeber |
| Jean-Marc Raymond |
| Calum J. Redpath |
| Christopher Reid |
| Mounir Riahi |
| 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 |
| Khaled Shelig |
| Mohammed Shurrab |
| Douanne Siew |
| Susan Simister |
| Brian G. Sinclair |
| Gurmeet Singh |
| Vincent Siu |
| Venkatesan Ben Sivarajan |
| Brian Sonnenberg |
| Christian M. Steinberg |
| Laurence D. Sterns |
| Marcio L. Sturmer |
| Asem Suliman |
| Jan Surkes |
| Neville G. Suskin |
| Bruce Sussex |
| 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 |
| Michael R. Ward |
| 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 |
| Anita YM Chan |
| Dylan E. Stanger |
| Gillian Nesbitt |
| John Janevski |
| Lawrence Title |
| Nader Hanna |
| Pierre Voisine |
| Thanh-Thao Ton-Nu |
| Michel D’Astous |
| Nader Hanna |
| John Janevski |
| Mohamed Marzouk |
| Eileen O’Meara |
| Carolyn Pullen |
| Thanh-Thao Ton-Nu |
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