The Department of Medicine and the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) and The Ottawa Hospital are seeking a full-time academic cardiologist to serve as Chair in Regional and Remote Cardiology. This position is targeted to a mid-career clinician investigator with a practice profile of approximately 70% clinical care and 30% research.
The successful candidate will play a leadership role in advancing regional and remote cardiovascular care, with a particular focus on strengthening partnerships and developing sustainable clinical and academic programs with regional hospitals across Eastern Ontario and on providing and coordinating specialized cardiology services for patients in Nunavut. The Chair will assume the role of Qikiqtaaluk Cardiology Program Lead, a long-standing program delivering cardiology care to residents of the Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) Region.
In this role, the successful candidate will work collaboratively with regional partners, Indigenous organizations, and community stakeholders, with an emphasis on culturally respectful care, relationship-building, and the co-development of care models that respond to the needs of northern and remote populations.
The successful candidate will be based at UOHI, Canada’s largest and foremost heart health centre, which provides tertiary and quaternary cardiovascular care to patients from 16 hospitals in Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, Nunavut and across Canada. UOHI employs more than 1,600 healthcare professionals and supports more than 245,000 patient encounters annually. The Division of Cardiology is internationally recognized for excellence in clinical care, education, and research.
In addition to state-of-the-art catheterization (4) and electrophysiology (4) labs, a dedicated cardiac imaging facility with PET, MRI, CT, SPECT and echocardiography imaging, core facilities include 96 inpatient ward beds, an intensive cardiac care unit (ICCU) with 14 beds, an intensive cardiac surgery unit (CSICU) with 27 beds, a Day Unit with 36 beds, a Step-Down Unit with 17 beds, within which is nested a Structural Procedure Unit of 6 beds.
The Ottawa Hospital is a 1150 bed tertiary-care hospital serving Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec at four inpatient sites (Civic, General, Heart Institute, and the Rehabilitation Centre) and one ambulatory centre (Riverside). There are approximately 50,000 inpatient admissions, 160,000 emergency visits and over one million outpatient visits annually. Ground-breaking medical research is conducted through The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. We rank 5th in Canada for competitive, peer-reviewed grants from the prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Over 2,300 researchers are publishing more than 2,200 studies yearly, with hundreds being high-impact publications (top 10% or citations).
The Department of Medicine is a research-intensive Department. Members currently hold 25 University Research Chairs. The Department receives approximately $60 million per year in external research funding and members publish approximately 1200 peer-reviewed publications annually.
The Faculty of Medicine is a nationally recognized leader, ranked among Canada’s top-tier medical faculties. As the most research-intensive Faculty at the University of Ottawa, the Faculty of Medicine contributes significantly to the University being ranked 5th in the country for total research revenues (Research InfoSource), routinely 2nd or 3rd in Canada for research intensity in Medicine/Science grants (McLean’s), 4th in Canada for citations (2022 THE rankings) and 1st for overall growth in Tri-council funding over the past two decades. The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English/French) university in the world and the Faculty of Medicine first and largest bilingual medical school in Canada. The Faculty of Medicine has a long history of conducting the highest quality basic and clinical research, in close partnership with five affiliated academic hospitals and six research institutes. The Web of Science recently published a list of the most highly cited researchers in the world, where seven out of eight researchers identified from the uOttawa are from the Faculty of Medicine.
Together, these remarkable achievements are a strong testament to the competitiveness and excellence of our Faculty that extend to all our educational programs.
The City of Ottawa provides a thriving multicultural and bilingual environment. Ottawa boasts numerous cultural activities as well as readily accessible sporting and natural resources, making it an ideal family and healthy living environment
