About

Alberto Goffi, MD, is a Staff Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital – Unity Health Toronto and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine (IDCCM). After graduating from the University of Torino (Italy) and completing his internal medicine training in the same city, he moved to Toronto in 2010 for a fellowship in adult critical care medicine. His clinical and academic interests include neurocritical care and point-of-care ultrasound in acute care medicine, with a focus on lung ultrasound and optimal teaching strategies for its competency achievement. He is the co-lead of the IDCCM Critical Care Ultrasound Curriculum and the co-lead of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) Adult Critical Care Medicine fellowship.

Alberto loves travelling for teaching; he has already taught ultrasound and neurocritical care in five different continents. In 2015, he won the Young Lecturer Award at the ESICM annual meeting. In 2019, he has been selected as the recipient of the Frank S. Rutledge Award of Excellence in Critical Care Teaching. Outside of work, Alberto has a passion for creating logos and drawings digitally; the IDCCM logo is one of his creations. In the past 4 years, he has learned that nothing is more fulfilling (and tiring!) in life than playing with Sofia and Oliver, his two children.

Dr. Amélie Paquin is a fellow in Advanced Echocardiography and Women’s Cardiovascular Health at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She completed her cardiology training and a master’s degree in clinical Epidemiology at Laval University. She is also currently undergoing doctoral studies in collaboration with Laval University, studying the sex-specific impact of cardiometabolic risk factors on myocardial remodeling. She is supported by scholarships from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Fonds de recherche du Québec en santé, Association des cardiologues du Québec, and Laval University McLaughlin Dean’s Scholarship.

Dr. Anna Woo received her MD degree at McGill University and she trained in Cardiology and Echocardiography at the University of Toronto.  She completed her Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Woo is a staff cardiologist based at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), where she attends in the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Clinic.  In addition, she is the Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at the University Health Network (Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals). 

Dr. Woo’s research and academic interests have mainly focused on HCM and on advanced echo techniques.  She has contributed to a number of national and international guidelines, including the 2011 and 2022 versions of the American Society of Echocardiography Guidelines for multimodality imaging in HCM.  Dr. Woo is on the Board of Directors of the HCM Society (HCMS).

Dr. Aws Almufleh is a cardiologist specializing in echocardiography and advanced heart failure. He is the Physician Lead of the Heart Function Clinic and holds academic appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University. He received his medical degree with First Class Honors from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2012. He then completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Miami focusing on epidemiology and clinical research. He did internal medicine residency at McGill University where he served as the Chief Medical Resident. Following cardiology fellowship training at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (2016-2019), Dr. Almufleh completed an advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2019-2020) and earned the Pierce Fellow Award for Scholarship in Cardiomyopathy in recognition of his clinical and research achievements. Dr. Almufleh also completed an advanced echocardiography fellowship at Vancouver General Hospital/University of British Columbia (2020-2021). Concurrently, he pursued research training through the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT) program at Harvard Medical School with emphasis on advanced quantitative research methodology and study design.

Dr. Almufleh has a keen interest in medical education and echocardiography. He is the Echocardiography rotation director for cardiology fellows and non-cardiology learners at Queen’s University. He moderates a weekly echocardiography teaching round where faculty goes over interesting echocardiograms with cardiology fellows and sonographers. He is a faculty member of the Queen’s Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) fellowship training program. Furthermore, he is serving a two-year term as a member-at-large in the Canadian Society of Echocardiography Board of Directors. As for research pursuit, Dr. Almufleh, under the mentorship of Dr. Parvathy Nair from the University of British Columbia, is the lead author of a medical education project aimed at optimizing echocardiography competency training during cardiology fellowship which earned the Canadian Cardiovascular Ultrasound Research Excellence Award for Technology & Education – $50,000 CREATE Grant. He is also a co-investigator in the echocardiography online quality assessment and direct feedback modules project led by Drs. Robin Ducas and Che-Ming Chow. Dr. Almufleh has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles and was a co-investigator of the large-scale randomized controlled trial comparing Milrinone with Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock; published in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2021. 

Carly Burry is a cardiac sonographer at the Colchester East Hants Health Authority in Truro, Nova Scotia. After completing her Bachelor of Kinesiology, she completed her Cardiac Sonography program at Mohawk College and began her career as a Sonographer.

Credentials/Training:

Undergraduate medicine, McGill University, 1998-2001

Internal Medicine, McGill University, 1995-1998

Cardiology, McGill University, 1998-2001

Echocardiography Fellowship, McGill University, 2001-2002

Cardiovascular MRI Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2004

Current Positions:

Staff Cardiologist, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 2022-present

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Co-Director, Cardiac MRI, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Director, Rare Cardiac Conditions Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Board member, Canadian Cardiac Oncology Network

Past Positions/Appointments:

Professor and Cardiologist, University of Alberta, 2004-2022

Past Director, Residency Training Adult Cardiology, University of Alberta, 2009-2017

Associate Director and Competence Committee Chair, Residency Training Adult Cardiology, University of Alberta, 2021-2022

Clinical Director, Edmonton Cardio-Oncology program

Past President, Canadian Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Clinical and Academic Interests:

Prevention and treatment of chemotherapy related cardiotoxicity

Advanced cardiac imaging (MRI and echo)

Heart Failure/Amyloidosis/Sarcoidosis

Post-COVID syndrome

Medical Education 

Recreational Activities:

Ice Hockey

Cross-country skiing

Cycling

Dr. Kareem Morant is an Echocardiographer and Assistant Professor at North York General Hospital (NYGH) in Toronto, ON. After completing Cardiology training at University of Toronto, he completed his Advanced Echocardiography Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. 

Currently, he is the Director of the Heart Function Clinic at NYGH and is a member of the Transcatheter Heart Valve Team at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Morant’s areas of interest include Imaging, Valvular Heart Disease, Heart Failure and A-TTR Cardiomyopathy, where he has a particular interest in how it effects the Canadian Black population. Furthermore, he enjoys teaching and mentoring trainees of all levels, and is passionate about advocating for improving diversity and inclusivity in medicine.

Lawrence Lau, MD, is a cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. 
Dr. Lau graduated from the University of Manitoba, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in 2011. He earned his medical degree in 2015 followed by a residency in internal medicine in 2018, also at the University of Manitoba. He then completed a residency in cardiology at the UOHI in 2021, followed by a fellowship in echocardiography at the UOHI in 2022.
Dr. Lau’s research interests include infective endocarditis, echocardiography, and valve disease.

Marie-Josée Blais is Chief Cardiac Sonographer at the Jewish General Hospital, a McGill University affiliated hospital. She graduated as a medical imaging technologist in 1991 and obtained her ARDMS certification in adult and pediatric echocardiography in 1995. She is currently an inspector of the Order of Technologists of Quebec (OTIMRO). She served on the CSE Board of Directors and has lectured at numerous national and international meetings, including the ASE and CSE annual meetings.

Her interests include standardization in echocardiography, quality improvement and contrast imaging

Dr. Fine is a heart failure cardiologist and echocardiologist in Calgary (Alberta Canada). He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Cardiac Sciences, Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is the Clinical Director of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute. He is director of Clinical and Research/Core Echocardiography Laboratories, and co-lead of Heart Failure research program. Dr. Fine has a clinical and research interest in heart failure and infiltrative cardiomyopathies, particularly cardiac amyloidosis and Anderson-Fabry disease, and is Co-Director of the Amyloidosis Program of Calgary and Cardiac Amyloidosis Clinic. He is the co-principal investigator for the Canadian Registry for Amyloidosis Research. 

Dr. Sarah Blissett is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Program Director of Adult Cardiology Subspecialty Training Program, and a Centre Researcher at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI)

Following completion of medical school at the University of Toronto, Internal Medicine at University of Toronto and Cardiology at Western University, she completed fellowships in Integrated Cardiac Imaging (Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI, McGill University, Montreal) and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (UCSF, San Francisco).  Concurrent to these fellowships, she obtained a Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University.

Dr. Blissett's clinical work focuses on cardiac imaging, Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Cardio-Obstetrics.  Her academic interests are focused on improving education in Cardiology, particularly in optimizing learning in workplace learning environments

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Steven Promislow graduated from medical school at the University of Manitoba in 2010 and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Manitoba in 2013. He went on to complete his cardiology residency in 2016 at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, followed by fellowships in both adult echocardiography and cardiac CT/nuclear cardiology. He subsequently joined the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute before returning to Winnipeg in 2021 to join WRHA Cardiac Sciences and the Section of Cardiology within the Department of Medicine at the University of Manitoba.
His academic interests lie in multimodality cardiac imaging and their application in clinical practice. He is also actively involved in education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.