Abhinav Sharma

Assistant Professor Division of Cardiology | Director Heart Failure Fellowship Program | Director DREAM-CV Lab

McGill University

Speaker Sessions

September 21, 2023 | 03:30 PM (PST) - 04:30 PM (PST)

About Abhinav Sharma MD, PhD

Dr. Abhinav Sharma is a cardiologist and an assistant professor in the division of cardiology at McGill University. He completed his medical school and internal medicine from McMaster University and his cardiology fellowship from the University of Alberta. He completed his PhD in epidemiology with a thesis focusing on the intersection of diabetes and heart. He conducted a research fellowship at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (2015-2017). After his Advanced HF and cardiac transplant fellowship (Stanford University; 2017-2018), he was a visiting scholar at Stanford focusing on digital technologies in patients with HF. He has won peer-reviewed funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research, Heart and Stroke, FRQS (Quebec), MEDTEQ (Quebec Ministry of Economy and Innovation) amongst others. He was selected as World Heart Federation Salim Yusef Emerging Leader. He is currently a Fonds De Recherche Santé Quebec chercheurs-cliniciens junior 2 scholar at McGill University where he focuses on the use of digital health and artificial intelligence to improve outcomes in patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Disclosures

No relevant financial relationships to disclose.