Physicians and researchers at the St. Paul’s Hospital Healthy Heart Program are forming a registry to help identify more patients with elevated lipoprotein (a), learn more about it, and connect patients to the right treatments. Learn more: ow.ly/Q8GO50QZXRz #KnowLpa

Thank you Global BC for highlighting this important and under-recognized risk factor for ♥️ disease and to Darren for sharing his story about Lp(a) #KnowLpa #FindLpa National Lipid Association European Atherosclerosis Society globalnews.ca/video/10380875…

What a great choice. Congratulations Katey Rayner!

Congratulations ⁦Iulia Iatan, MD PhD⁩ and Diana for their excellent presentations at #ACC24! Great representation of ⁦HLI at St Paul's⁩ ⁦UBC Department of Medicine⁩ ⁦Providence Health Care⁩

Today we remembered the late Dr. Jiri Frohlich who founded BC's first lipid clinic, now the Healthy Heart Program Prevention clinic at Providence Health Care. Jiri was a pioneer in cardiovascular disease prevention and founded Canada's first FH Registry.

CETP inhibition enhances monocyte activation and bacterial clearance and reduces streptococcus pneumonia–associated mortality in mice: buff.ly/3vX9JjT Liam Brunham UBC Medicine #Cardiology #InfectiousDisease

Congratulations ⁦Rylan McCallum who graduated with his MSc. in Experimental Medicine today! #proudsupervisor University of British Columbia HLI at St Paul's

Great to connect with friends at colleagues at #EAS2024! ⁦EAS Congress⁩ ⁦European Atherosclerosis Society⁩ ⁦Iulia Iatan, MD PhD⁩

A polygenic risk score for CAD explains in part the higher risk in patients with clinically vs. genetically diagnosed FH @Marketrinder Liam Brunham ahajrnls.org/3KJ4tUo

Congratulations to UBC Medicine researchers Drs. Liam Brunham, Annie Vogel Ciernia and Corinna Schindler who were recently announced among UBC’s new and renewed Canada Research Chairs! bit.ly/3z1nj6L

Congratulations Amar Sekhon !

This #JACCCardioOnc study demonstrates that genomic analysis, coupled with human induced pluripotent #stemcell modeling, is an efficient platform for assessing the mechanisms of doxorubicin-induced #cardiotoxicity. bit.ly/3UeNFL8 #CardioOnc

If you are an aspiring physician scientist come check out our open house to learn about the UBC MD/PhD program

Congratulations Saif Dababneh !

Congratulations to Dr. Diana Vikulova, MD, PhD, who did a superb job defending her PhD thesis! Diana's work expanded our understanding of the prediction, prevention, and treatment of early onset heart disease.