Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Padma Kaul is a Professor, Department of Medicine and Co-Director of the Canadian VIGOUR Centre (an academic research organization) at the University of Alberta. She is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. She holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Chair in Sex and Gender Science and a Heart & Stroke Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Research.
Dr. Kaul’s research examines issues involving access and delivery of cardiovascular care at a population level; examining international differences in cardiovascular practice patterns and outcomes; and health economics. One of her primary interests is looking at the burden of heart disease in women relative to men. She has expanded her interest in women's health by developing a longitudinal pregnancy and birth cohort to study the downstream effects of gestational diabetes mellitus and other pregnancy-related complications on the development
of chronic disease in both the mother and the child. She leads the CVC data science team that is using artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to develop diagnostic and prognostic models based on electrocardiographic and echocardiographic data.
Dr. Kaul has extensive experience working with population-level administrative data, clinical registries, as well as large, multinational clinical trials using an integrated database that links inpatient, outpatient, and vital statistic databases to examine cardiovascular care in Canada.
Dr. Kaul received her PhD from the University of Alberta and did a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University.