Subodh Verma MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAHA, FCAHS,

Professor of Surgery, Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Dr Subodh Verma is an internationally renowned cardiac surgeon-scientist and Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the current Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery, having previously served as the Canada Research Chair in Atherosclerosis (2007-2017). Dr Verma is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest national honours that recognizes scholars for their promotion of health science. In 2022, Dr Verma was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Clinical Medicine. In 2021, he was bestowed the University of Toronto Lister Prize in Surgery in recognition of his outstanding and continuing productivity of international stature. He is a past recipient of the Howard Morgan Award for Distinguished Achievements in Cardiovascular Research from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal in Surgery. Dr Verma is an appointee of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS) and a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Dr Verma’s over 500 peer-reviewed publications have earned him a Google Scholar h-index of 117 with over 60,000 citations. He has published extensively in highly impactful journals like the NEJM, Lancet, Nature, Circulation, European Heart Journal and JACC. He is an Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal and a Section Editor of Current Opinion in Cardiology. Dr Verma is an active contributor to Canadian clinical practice guidelines and co- authored recommendations for atrial fibrillation, antiplatelet therapy, cardiorenal protection, diabetes, heart failure, and peripheral artery disease; he was also a member of the 2018 AATS consensus guidelines committee on bicuspid aortic valve-related aortopathy. Dr Verma is the current Scientific Program Committee Chair for the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons and has served in various capacities on the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia since 2008. 

Dr Verma had/has leadership roles in multiple contemporary global heart failure and cardiometabolic disease trials – several of which have persuaded guideline writing committees to recommend paradigm changes in how individuals who live with heart failure should be managed. He founded the CardioLink platform at St Michael’s Hospital that united cardiac surgeons from across Canada to conduct robust clinical trials to better inform on surgical decision-making pathways. CardioLink has since expanded its scope to include cardiometabolic studies and boasts nearly 30 peer- reviewed papers since its inception in 2015.

Dr Verma leads a dynamic pre-clinical and translational research team that leverages pre-clinical disease models and clinical trial-derived data to identify novel mediators of cardiometabolic diseases. His current research is centred around modulating vascular regenerative cell exhaustion to alleviate cardiometabolic risk. Dr Verma holds 2 United States patents, and his research program is supported by national peer-reviewed grants.

  • CLINICAL INTERESTS

    • Diabetes
    • Atherosclerosis
    • Heart Failure
    • Cardiometabolic Disease
    • Mitral Valve Repair
    • Bicuspid Aortopathy
  • RESEARCH INTERESTS

    • Vascular Biology
    • Endothelial Progenitor Cells
    • Inflammation
  • EDUCATION AND TRAINING

    • MD, University of Calgary
    • PhD, University of British Columbia
    • MSc, University of British Columbia

     

  • ACTIVITIES/HONOURS/AWARDS

    • Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery (2018-present)

    • Canada Research Chair in Atherosclerosis (2007-2017)

    • Lister Prize in Surgery, University of Toronto (2021)

    • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal in Surgery (2012)

    • Howard Morgan Award for Distinguished Achievements in Cardiovascular Research (2010)

    • Member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS)

    • Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

  • PUBLICATIONS

    • ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-8533
  • CONTACT

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