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The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR) – a partnership between The Hospital for Sick Children, University Health Network and U of T – is hosting an international symposium to showcase the latest findings in the field of cardiac health care. 

The event will bring together research leaders, clinicians, trainees and graduate students on May 12 and 13.

“The symposium is closely aligned with our mission to end heart failure. It’s an opportunity for us to get feedback and insights on how we can best do that,” said Dr. Mansoor Husain. A professor in the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology at U of T, Husain is also the executive director of TRCHR and the director of the Toronto General Research Institute.

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The symposium will be the first major public event by the TRCHR, which launched in November 2014 thanks to an unprecedented donation of $130 million from the Rogers family in memory of business leader and U of T alumnus, Ted Rogers. It is the largest monetary gift ever made to a Canadian health-care initiative. 

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“The symposium provides us with an occasion to make our presence better known to our colleagues, both locally and internationally,” said Husain. 
    
Among those speaking at the conference are keynotes Dr. Adrian Hernandez, a professor of medicine and cardiology at Duke University, cardiologist Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, and Dr. Hugh Watkins, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Oxford, where he is also director of the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence. Husain said the symposium will also be an important opportunity for the Toronto audience to hear from Toronto’s experts. 

“We have some of the world’s top researchers in this field,” Husain said. “But we’re often so busy talking about our work at conferences elsewhere in the world that we don’t have many opportunities to actually sit together and hear about the great work that’s happening here in Toronto.” 

Those speakers include Dr. Seema Mital, Professor Anthony Gramolini, Dr. Douglas Lee, Dr. Michael Laflamme, Dr. Filio Billia, Dr. Dinesh Thavendiranathan, and Professor Milica Radisic. 
    
Husain noted the symposium is just one way in which TRCHR is working to share information with researchers, clinicians and the general public. The Centre will soon launch a new website, which will include information for patients as well as professionals in the field. 

More information and registration details for the symposium is .