Vivek Rao
Vivek Rao is a Canadian cardiac surgeon and researcher. He was the youngest faculty member ever to join the University of Toronto cardiac surgery division, and, later, the second youngest chief of cardiac surgery ever appointed at the University Health Network Division of Cardiac Surgery.After attending Upper Canada College, Rao studied medicine at Queen's University at Kingston. He completed his medical and surgical training at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, including PhD training (’94-97), working under the supervision of Richard D. Weisel in the Surgical Scientist Training Program. He completed a fellowship in cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
Rao is the Munk Chair in Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, and Senior Scientist in the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at the Toronto General Research Institute.
Rao is credited with building Canada's largest Advanced Heart Failure Program. He was also the first cardiovascular surgeon in Canada to implant HeartMate, a mechanical heart technology he imported from his experience under Dr. Mehmet Oz of the "Dr. Oz Show" in New York.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Rao was named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40. Provided by Wikipedia
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4by Sharon Chih, Andrzej Chruscinski, Heather J. Ross, Kathryn Tinckam, Jagdish Butany, Vivek RaoGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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6by Stanzin Dawa, Stanzin Dawa, Dilip Menon, Dilip Menon, Prabhakar Arumugam, Prabhakar Arumugam, Akash Kumar Bhaskar, Akash Kumar Bhaskar, Moumita Mondal, Moumita Mondal, Vivek Rao, Vivek Rao, Sheetal Gandotra, Sheetal GandotraGet full text
Published 2021-09-01
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9by Ruchi Jain, Bappaditya Dey, Neeraj Dhar, Vivek Rao, Ramandeep Singh, Umesh D Gupta, V M Katoch, V D Ramanathan, Anil K TyagiGet full text
Published 2008-01-01
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10by Thomas Krabatsch, Ivan Netuka, Jan D. Schmitto, Daniel Zimpfer, Jens Garbade, Vivek Rao, Michiel Morshuis, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Silvana Marasco, Laura Damme, Yuriy PyaGet full text
Published 2017-04-01
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11by Madhura Thosar, Christian A. Mueller, Georg Jäger, Johannes Schleiss, Narender Pulugu, Ravi Mallikarjun Chennaboina, Sai Vivek Rao Jeevangekar, Andreas Birk, Max Pfingsthorn, Sebastian ZugGet full text
Published 2021-04-01
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12by Andrzej Chruscinski, Flora Y Y Huang, Albert Nguyen, Jocelyn Lioe, Laura C Tumiati, Stella Kozuszko, Kathryn J Tinckam, Vivek Rao, Shannon E Dunn, Michael A Persinger, Gary A Levy, Heather J RossGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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13by M.D. Omid Kiamanesh, Yasbanoo Moayedi, MD, Natasha Aleksova, MD, Juan Duero Posada, MD, MSc, Ariel Gershon, MD, Michael A. Seidman, MD, PhD, Vivek Rao, MD, PhD, Filio Billia, MD, PhDGet full text
Published 2021-02-01
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14by Hance Clarke, Ajit Rai, James Bao, Michael Poon, Vivek Rao, George Djaiani, Scott Beattie, Gabrielle Page, Manon Choiniere, Michael McGillion, Monica Parry, Judith Hunter, Judy Watt-Watson, Loren Martin, Liza Grosman-Rimon, Dinesh Kumbhare, John Hanlon, Ze’ev Seltzer, Joel KatzGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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15by Faizan Amin, MD, FRCPC, Julia Lombardi, BSc, Mosaad Alhussein, MD, FRCPC, Juan Duero Posada, MD, FRCPC, Adrian Suszko, MSc, Margaret Koo, BSc, Eddy Fan, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Heather Ross, MD, FRCPC, Vivek Rao, MD, PhD, Ana Carolina Alba, MD, PhD, Filio Billia, MD, PhD, FRCPCGet full text
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16by Rahul C Bhoyar, Abhinav Jain, Paras Sehgal, Mohit Kumar Divakar, Disha Sharma, Mohamed Imran, Bani Jolly, Gyan Ranjan, Mercy Rophina, Sumit Sharma, Sanjay Siwach, Kavita Pandhare, Swayamprabha Sahoo, Maheswata Sahoo, Ananya Nayak, Jatindra Nath Mohanty, Jayashankar Das, Sudhir Bhandari, Sandeep K Mathur, Anshul Kumar, Rahul Sahlot, Pallavali Rojarani, Juturu Vijaya Lakshmi, Avileli Surekha, Pulala Chandra Sekhar, Shelly Mahajan, Shet Masih, Pawan Singh, Vipin Kumar, Blessy Jose, Vidur Mahajan, Vivek Gupta, Rakesh Gupta, Prabhakar Arumugam, Anjali Singh, Ananya Nandy, Ragavendran P V, Rakesh Mohan Jha, Anupama Kumari, Sheetal Gandotra, Vivek Rao, Mohammed Faruq, Sanjeev Kumar, Betsy Reshma G, Narendra Varma G, Shuvra Shekhar Roy, Antara Sengupta, Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Khushboo Singhal, Shalini Pradhan, Diksha Jha, Salwa Naushin, Saruchi Wadhwa, Nishu Tyagi, Mukta Poojary, Vinod Scaria, Sridhar SivasubbuGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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