Staff
Dr. Kevin Harris
Director of Research at the BC Children’s Hospital Heart Centre; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC; Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist and Investigator at BC Children’s; and President of the Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Society
Research Areas: Interventional pediatric cardiology, cardiovascular outcomes, preventive cardiology
Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani
Division Head of Cardiology, BC Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC; Pediatric Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist and Investigator, BC Children’s; and Former President of Research for the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society
Research Areas: Pediatric electrophysiology, arrhythmias, inherited arrhythmias, sudden death
Dr. Martin Hosking
Pediatric Interventional Cardiologist, Clinical Associate Professor and Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Research Area: Coronary Artery Vasculopathy and applications of Optical Coherence Tomography
Dr. Kathryn Armstrong
Pediatric Cardiologist and Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital; Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Research Area: Heart function, pediatric heart transplant, dysautonomia of adolescence
Dr. Derek Human
Pediatric Cardiologist, Outpatient Cardiologist, Medical Director for Quality and Safety, Clinical Professor and Investigator
Research Area: Management of congenital heart disease, delivery of healthcare
Highlights: Established travelling cardiology clinics
Dr. Shreya Moodley
Pediatric Cardiologist, Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Ashok Kakadekar
Pediatric Cardiologist
Dr. George Sandor
Professor Emeritus and Investigator
Research Area: Congenital heart disease, echocardiography, cardiac vascular function
Dr. Jim Potts
Clinical Epidemiologist and Research Associate
Dr. Steven Rathgeber
Cardiologist
Sonia Franciosi
Research Associate
Research Area: Pediatric Arrhythmia, sudden death, and the autonomic nervous system
Astrid De Souza
Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Research Associate
Dania Kallas
Research Coordinator
Research Area: Pediatric Arrhythmia, Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Inherited Arrhythmias, Sudden Death
Claire Galvin
Research Coordinator
Research Focus: Digital Health, quality of life and symptom management in dysautonomia of adolescence
Dr. Najah Adreak, MD, MSc
Research Assistant
Research Area: Mini-invasive cardiac surgery, congenital heart surgery, digital health, women’s heart health
Affiliated Researchers
Dr. Christine Voss
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC Faculty of Medicine; Investigator, UBC Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Affiliate Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital; Affiliate Investigator, Interior Health
Research Areas: Physical activity and Congenital Heart Disease
Clinical Trainees
Eva Kapravelou
Research focus: Echocardiography
Francesca de la Cruz
Research focus: Congenital heart disease
Sripadh Upadhya
Research focus: Systematic Review of the MAPCAS- Outcome and prognosis
Graduate Students
Bianca Fukakusa
Experimental Medicine Master’s Student
Research focus: Testing the feasibility, acceptability, and sustainability of a physical activity counselling intervention for children with congenital heart disease
Nikol Grishin
Kinesiology Master’s Student
Research focus: Exercise rehabilitation in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients and congenital heart disease
Undergraduate Students
Monika Jandu
Pearl Waraich
Previous Staff
Dr. Walter Duncan
Pediatric Cardiologist, Clinical Professor, Program Director (Subspecialty Program in Pediatric Cardiology) and Investigator
Research Area: Clinical pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac catheterization
Nicole Hemphill
Previous Trainees
Eimear McGovern
Pediatric Cardiology Fellow
Research Area: Interventional pediatric cardiology
Winner (Fellow category): 29th Annual National Pediatric Resident and Fellow Research Competition for work entitled “Optical coherence tomography for the early detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in cardiac transplant recipients: Findings from the International Pediatric OCT Registry” - 2017
Nitin Arora
Mimi Kuan
Caroline Illmann
