Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto and Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada
Sheldon Tobe MScCH (HPTE), FRCPC, FACP, FAHA trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the University of Toronto, then joined the Division of Nephrology at Sunnybrook. He is a Professor of Medicine at both the University of Toronto and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, where he was the inaugural Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair of Aboriginal and Rural Health Research. His main research interests are the Implementation Science of dissemination of cardiovascular focused clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Tobe is co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE), was a co-author of the KDIGO Hypertension in CKD guideline, and is lead on the upcoming Diabetes Canada CKD in diabetes guideline. Dr. Tobe was aked to lead the new Brain-Heart Clnical Practice Guideline to support the work of the new $109m Canadian First Research Excellent Funded Brain Heart Interconnectome program at the University of Ottawa. Dr Tobe also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Hypertension Specialists Program. Dr Tobe has had continuous peer reviewed funding for over 25 years, has received many teaching awards and other career distinctions and has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles and has led and participated in peer reviewed and investigator initiated multicentered international research collaborations.