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Annual Rare Cardiac Conditions Conference

Join the 3^rd Annual Rare Cardiac Conditions Conference and learn from national and international experts about the challenges and opportunities in understanding and treating rare cardiac conditions,

Open to all interested healthcare professionals involved with or interested in the care of patients with rare cardiac conditions, researchers, and policy decision makers. Please share among your networks.

For more information, visit the Rare Cardiac Conditions Conference webpage, or watch the playlist from last year’s conference.

Friday, February 28, 2025 – 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Online via Zoom

CIHR-ICRH Online Survey – Research Priority Plan 2025-2030  

The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) invites you to provide input to inform the development of our Institute’s 2025-2030 Research Priority Plan (RPP). This RPP will guide the Institute’s work, including our strategic research investments, to advance science priorities focused on heart, lung, brain (stroke), blood, blood vessels, sleep as well as emergency room and critical care services for circulatory and respiratory health.     

The devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 is one of the greatest natural disasters of this century. This 2005 book about the tsunami is available free online for anyone to read anywhere in the world. It is written by Canadian cardiologist Dr Vivian Rambihar, his daughter Toronto cardiologist Dr Sherryn Rambihar, and daughter Dr Vanessa Rambihar, who volunteered in Sri Lanka a few months after the tsunami. It was launched at a Global Heart Event on Valentine’s Day 2005 to launch the concept of Global Heart.

iCARDIO Alliance Obesity Survey

We invite you to participate in a brief survey on obesity and cardiovascular disease. As you know, obesity is a growing global concern, closely linked with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular, and liver diseases. Effective patient management is becoming more complex, and your insights are crucial.

Your feedback will help us develop more holistic guidelines approaches to better meet healthcare needs. All responses are confidential, and we’ve partnered with QuestionPro to ensure your privacy. Thank you for your time and input.

Cardiology Needs Assessment Regarding Transgender Health

Dr. Sofia Ahmed and her colleague Dr. Carl Streed are assessing how cardiovascular care is delivered to transgender and non-binary persons. 

 Drs. Streed and Ahmed have developed a survey that is being offered to the AHA and CCS membership.  The research has been approved by ethics at Boston University.   Here is the link to the survey – please take a look and offer your perspective

Participate in a study led by Dr. Carl Streed at Boston University by completing the Cardiology Needs Assessment Regarding Transgender Health. You may be familiar with Dr. Streed’s work as the lead author for the 2021 AHA Scientific Statement on Assessing and Addressing Cardiovascular Health in Persons who are Transgender and Gender-Diverse.

The Canadian Cardio-Oncology Network (CCON), an affiliate of CCS, is conducting the first-of-its-kind survey to understand the current landscape of Cardio-Oncology services across Canadian centres. The goal is to improve our knowledge of available Cardio-Oncology services for clinicians and patients across the country, with the intent of improving patient care. The survey takes <10 minutes to complete and evaluates three areas: Clinical Care, Education, and Research. 

The purpose of this survey is to gather Canadian experience regarding the prescription of post-discharge antiplatelet therapy for the medical treatment of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) when no revascularization strategy is used. This stems from a necessity to better understand the needs in the absence of a clear literature guiding medical practice for the optimal antiplatelet management of this population.

The Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) at McMaster University is seeking cardiologists, perioperative physicians or trainees in those respective fields across Canada to participate in a
5-minute survey regarding knowledge, attitudes and prescribing practices of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation.

Your generous involvement would allow us to better understand the consensus amongst experts across Canada and the need for further research or policymaking in the field of e-cigarettes for smoking
cessation.

The purpose of this survey is to understand your opinion about influenza vaccination in adult patients, with a focus on people living with cardiovascular diseases. This survey is voluntary, and all of your responses, as well as your participation in the survey itself, will be anonymized. Participating in this project will take less than 4 minutes, and your contribution will greatly assist us.

This project is focused on identifying educational needs for all Cardiologists relating to Congenital Heart Disease. Please complete this brief survey, which should take you less than 10 minutes to complete. Participants are eligible for an Amazon Gift Card for compensation.

Researchers at the Ottawa Heart Institute are hoping to ascertain the sentiment of cardiac surgeons regarding postoperative afib as a problem that needs novel therapies. Please complete this 3-question survey, which should take you less than 2 minutes to complete.