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Growing team
Institute welcomes new members with diverse backgrounds Dr. Muhammad Rauf Ahsan, MD, earned his medical degree at Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. He received further training in general surgery and cardiac surgery in Ireland before emigrating to Canada. After finishing medical school, he completed fellowships in adult cardiac, complex aortic and transcatheter aortic valve replacement surgeries at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Muhammad Rauf Ahsan, MD
Before moving to Calgary he worked as a staff cardiac surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener, Ont., at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont., at St. Michael’s Hospital at the University of Toronto, and at the Health Sciences Centre at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland. His interests lie in aortic and coronary artery bypass surgery. He is now an integral part of the cardiac surgery team in Calgary.
Dr. David Campbell, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the departments of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Cardiac Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM). Born and raised in Calgary, he earned his MD and PhD in Health Services Research at the University of Calgary.
Dr. David Campbell MD, PhD
While attending Medical School, Campbell helped start the student-run clinic at the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre. That experience sparked his interest in reducing inequalities in health care delivery. Today, his research focuses on the impact of socio-economic factors—such as homelessness, poverty and food security—on patient outcomes in the area of cardiovascular health and metabolic diseases like Type 2 diabetes. Campbell’s goal is to increase equity in health services delivery and improve access for those who face social disadvantages.
Cardiologist Dr. Robert Miller, MD, has returned to practice in Calgary, where he completed his internal medicine and cardiology residency training. Miller earned his MD at the University of British Columbia. He completed further training in advanced heart failure and transplant at Stanford University and in cardiac imaging at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in southern California.
Dr. Robert Miller, MD
Miller’s interests are in advanced cardiac imaging in patients with heart disease and in epidemiology in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He feels advances in cardiac imaging and new approaches to using statistics will lead to better outcomes for patients by allowing doctors to predict patient risks more accurately and alter treatments accordingly. But Miller isn’t just a doctor and scientist, he is a swimmer with a number of accolades under his belt, including five Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships, won while training at UBC.
