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Beth L. Abramson, MD MSc FRCPC FACC

Cardiologist, Paul Albrechtsen Prof. of CV Prevention, U of T
St. Michael's Hospital
University of Toronto

Beth Abramson MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is the Paul Albrechtsen Professor in Cardiac Prevention and Women’s Health in the Division of Cardiology at St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto.

Her interest is knowledge translation, including writing guidelines to educate physicians on preventive cardiology and women’s health issues:

2000 Primary Panel: CCS Women and Ischemic Heart Disease;
2005, 2021 Co-Chair: CCS Guideline on Peripheral Arterial Disease;
2009, 2013 and 2020 Primary Panel: Canadian Menopause Guidelines;
2014 Primary Panel: Canadian Guidelines for the Management of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease.

Dr. Abramson was a co-chair of the American College of Cardiology’s Hypertension Working Group and the American Society of Preventive Cardiology’s Women’s Working Group. She was invited to become a member of the ACC’s Prevention Council in 2021.

She is a founding member and inaugural Chair (2018-2020) of the Canadian Women's Heart Health Alliance Education Working Group, which has created an electronic course and toolkit on Women and Heart Disease for MDs.

She enjoys educating the public on heart health and is a national spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Her book, Heart Health for Canadians, published in 2013, aims to help people prevent and understand heart disease.

In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Harold N. Segal Award of Merit, in recognition of her many contributions to preventing heart disease amongst Canadians.

She currently directs a fellowship in Preventive Cardiology at the University of Toronto.

Disclosure(s): Amgen: Ad board (Ongoing), Honoraria for CME (Ongoing); Bayer: Ad Board (Ongoing); byosent: Honoraria for CME (Ongoing); HLS: Ad Board (Ongoing), Honoraria for CME (Ongoing); Novartis: Ad board (Ongoing), Honoraria for CME (Ongoing); Novonordisk: Ad Board (Ongoing), honoraria for CME (Ongoing)

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