POST GRADUATE TRAINING:
                          Biophysics (Ph.D) , University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

SPECIALTY:
                         Echocardiography

SUB-SPECIALTY:
                         Cardiology, University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada

FELLOWSHIP TRAINING:
                         Cardiology Research Fellow, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, United Kingdom

CURRENT POSITION:
                       Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Western Ontario
                       Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
                       Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus, London, Ontario

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
                      Canadian Cardiovascular Society
                      Ontario Medical Association

Clinical INTERESTS:
                      

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
                      1) Understanding the structural and mechanical behaviour of the aortic valve and the physical mechanisms
                          that lead to failure of the bioprosthetic valve replacement devices;
                      2) Video densitometry analysis system that we have developed. It permits quantification and characterization of
                          scar tissue and myocardial muscle damage and sample of heart muscle tissue taken from animals or humans
                          with myocarditis;
                      3) Collaborative work with the Advanced Imaging Laboratories at the Robarts Research Institute. A software system
                          generated in those laboratories permits the creation of three-dimensional images of the heart from commercially
                          available two-dimensional echocardiographic devices.