Appointments and affiliations
Cardiologist and Intensivist
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Director
Intensive Cardiac Care Unit
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Dr. Rebecca Mathew is a cardiologist and critical care medicine specialist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI). She is also appointed as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Background
Dr. Mathew graduated from the University of Toronto in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience with first-class honours. She earned her medical degree at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in 2012. She completed her residency in internal medicine at McMaster University in 2015. She subsequently completed a fellowship in adult cardiology at the UOHI in 2019. She pursued a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 2021. She joined the UOHI’s Division of Cardiology in 2021.
Research and clinical interests
Dr. Mathew’s clinical and research interests include all aspects of acute cardiac critical care, treatment strategies in cardiogenic shock and the long-term management and prognosis of survivors of cardiac critical illness. Her academic interest is focused on resident education in the critical care setting.