Staff Cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital
University of Toronto
Dr. Shadi Akhtari is an attending staff cardiologist at Women's College Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Clinician in Quality and Innovation in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Akhtari has completed specialty and sub-specialty training in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Adult Echocardiography at McGill University, followed by a fellowship in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Level 3 training) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, as well as certification in cardiac Computed Tomography from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Additionally, she holds a Masters degree in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Apart from clinical practice of general cardiology and expertise in multi-modality cardiac imaging, her other areas of interest are prevention, diagnosis, and management of coronary artery disease, particularly in those with underlying inflammatory rheumatic disease, as well as improving ways in which quality health care is delivered to patients.
Disclosure(s): abbvie: Speaker/Honoraria (Terminated, December 31, 2022); Novartis: Speaker/Honoraria (Terminated, December 31, 2023)
245 - CARDIO-RHEUMATOLOGY - HEARTS ON FIRE
Friday, October 25, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PT
Friday, October 25, 2024
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PT