Dr. Shamir Mehta Appointed the First Douglas Holder/PHRI Chair in Interventional Cardiology
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Congratulations to Dr. Shamir Mehta on being appointed as the first Douglas Holder/PHRI Chair in Interventional Cardiology.
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Shamir Mehta has been appointed as the first Douglas Holder/PHRI Chair in Interventional Cardiology, effective May 1, 2021.
Dr. Mehta is a professor of the Department of Medicine, Director of interventional cardiology at Hamilton Health Sciences, and Senior Scientist and Director of the Acute Coronary Syndrome Research program at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences.
He received his BSc, MD and residency in cardiology from the University of Toronto and completed his MSc in Health Research Methodology at McMaster in 2002. He came to McMaster as a clinical scholar in cardiology in 1997 and joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2000.
Dr. Mehta’s research has transformed the treatment of heart attacks with the concept of ‘complete revascularization’, the unblocking of multiple coronary blood vessels, which will save lives worldwide.
This treatment led him to trial a fractional flow reserve test to measure whether a blockage is serious enough to need removing. Blood flow around a blockage is measured by a wire probe attached to the affected coronary artery.
Dr. Mehta has published his research in nine books and more than 200 journal articles.
Dr. Mehta received the 2003 Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Career Award, and he is on the leadership council of PHRI. He was also named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 achievers in 2004 for his contributions to medicine.
He is a member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Department of Medicine and previously served as chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at Hamilton Health Sciences.
I would also like to thank Dr. Salim Yusuf, professor and executive director of PHRI, and Mark Crowther, chair of the Department of Medicine, for their collaboration to create this new research chair. It is named for professor emeritus Dr. Douglas Holder who initiated the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, or PTCA, program in Hamilton in 1982.
I know you will join me in congratulating Shamir on this appointment.
Dr. Paul O’Byrne, Dean and Vice-President, Faculty of Health Sciences
Please watch Video of Dr. Mehta’s inauguration here.
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