Associate Professor - Cardiologist
Toronto General Hospital - University Health Network, Canada
Academic training:
Dr. Carolina Alba is appointed as an Associate Professor and Clinician-Scientist in the Heart Failure and Transplant Program at the University Health Network. She is a cardiologist from Argentina who completed her training as a clinical fellow in the Heart Failure/Transplant Program at the Toronto General Hospital in Canada supported by the LaSorda Fellowship award. Dr. Alba holds a doctoral degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Heath Research Methodology Program at McMaster University, Canada. Her academic research studies were supported by the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships Award. She currently holds a Clinician-Scientist award by the HSFC and the Fenwick family porfessorship in Heart Failure.
Key words: heart failure, heart transplant, mechanical support, outcomes, prognosis, survival, predictive models, systematic review, meta-analysis.
Pubmed search string: (Alba AC[Author]) AND Canada[Affiliation]
Brief description of Dr. Alba’s research:
Dr. Carolina Alba’s main research interest revolves around adequate prognosis assessment and outcomes in patients with heart failure. Heart failure is an exponentially growing medical and economic problem with high morbidity and mortality. Optimal management of patients with HF is crucial to improve outcomes and reduce costs and depends on adequate assessment of each patient’s mortality risk to decide on appropriate testing and intervention. Accurate estimation of mortality risk in patients with HF is key to guide management and to allow patients and physicians to make informed decisions about the appropriateness of medical plan.
Her research has received funding from the HSFC and CIHR.