Cardiologist
CCS, CCTN, CHFS
University of British Columbia, Canada
Mustafa Toma is a Clinical Associate Professor at UBC and is a Heart Failure/Heart Transplant cardiologist at St. Paul’s Hospital. He completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the University of Alberta and his Heart Transplant fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, OH. He subsequently completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC.
Dr. Toma’s research interests include outcomes research in heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. He also has an active interest in biomarkers research and he has been involved with the PROOF Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failures working on identifying biomarker panels for the diagnosis and prediction of numerous processes as they relate to acute and chronic heart failure, as well as in cardiac transplantation.