Our research focuses on the role of behavioural, cognitive, psychological and social mechanisms and interventions for patients with cardiovascular disease and their partners, with the goal of improving cardiovascular health, mental health, and quality of life outcomes.
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We are interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of cellular lipid homeostasis, trafficking and metabolism, particularly in lipid-loaded macrophage foam cells. During atherosclerosis, foam cells accumulate in the artery wall and are the precursor of heart disease. While today we have...
Video resources for your cardiovascular rehabilitation.
Cardiovascular rehabilitation is the next step back to health for people who have had a heart attack, cardiac surgery or other cardiac events.
Top tips for cardiovascular rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
The Ottawa region is fast becoming an internationally recognized hub in cardiovascular disease (CVD) research excellence. Ottawa is teeming with high calibre scientists and clinicians studying cardiovascular disease and related areas of health research.
The Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre provides advanced statistical and epidemiological support for experiment and clinical trial design for researchers within the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. The research of the Centre focuses on designing and analyzing clinical trials, developing and...
The Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre collaborates with Heart Institute investigators during all stages of the research process, from protocol design to drafting of a final manuscript for submission to a peer-reviewed journal: The Centre aims to: To collaborate with clinician and basic...
The main goal of the Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Laboratory, under the direction of Erik Suuronen, PhD, is to develop tissue engineering and cell-based therapeutic approaches for the treatment of cardiac injury and disease. Despite major advances in therapy, there are still a significant...
Electrical cardioversions are performed with anesthetic. An intravenous catheter will be inserted in your arm to deliver fluids and medication. Pads are placed on your chest and back and hooked up to an external defibrillator. When the patient is asleep the physician delivers a shock. Usually, one...
Working and studying at the Heart Institute can be immensely rewarding. This section provides information on employment and training opportunities relating to care, education and research at the Heart Institute.
When a loved one has a cardiac event such as a heart attack or open heart surgery, it can mean big changes in your life. This list can help you find many of the resources available to you.
A heart attack or cardiac surgery is a major event. It has a ripple effect that impacts not just the patient, but family and friends as well. Lives can change, often for the long term, casting loved ones in the role of caregiver. These changes can be stressful, unexpected and, over time, draining. A...
The repetitive nature of caring for a loved one recovering at home can be emotionally draining for a caregiver. Tasks such as helping that loved one get out of bed each morning, dress, bathe and eat can also be physically challenging. When a recovering patient can carry out these activities of daily...
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate Communication is the foundation of any good relationship. This becomes even more important when dealing with the upheavals and uncertainties of cardiovascular disease. “Life-threatening events threaten bonds,” said psychologist Heather Tulloch, PhD. “It’s...
February 22 is Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day, an international campaign dedicated to raising awareness about heart valve disease—its risk factors, symptoms, detection, and treatment
Several leading voices in cardiovascular medicine spoke out strongly at this year’s Congress about the looming crisis in health care and the need for the system to finally take prevention seriously. This message rang out from both sides of the border and took centre stage (that is “center” for our...
The Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation is a highly successful and widely adopted program for getting hospitalized patients to quit smoking. The intervention is most effective when support continues beyond discharge. Staff follow-up is a resource-intensive approach to maintaining patient contact...
A review of 25 years of heart transplant cases showed that the surgical procedure is a highly effective form of treatment. Cardiac surgeon Dr. Marc Ruel presented findings from 461 Heart Institute transplant patients showing that survival rates are high. This is particularly true over the past...
In a symposium called “Evolution in Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapies in Canada 2000-10,” leading figures discussed the changes seen over the previous decade in prevention, imaging, interventional cardiology and surgery. Two of those leading figures were Heart Institute physicians. Dr. Andrew...