Dr. Heather Ross

Heather Ross CM, MD, DSc, MHSc, FRCP (C), FACC is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Head of the Division of Cardiology at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. She received the Order of Canada in 2020 (CM), and an Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) from Queen’s University 2021. She is the Site lead for the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research and holds the Loretta A. Rogers Chair in Heart Function and the Pfizer Chair in Cardiovascular Research. Dr. Ross is also the Co-Lead of TRANSFORM HF, an Institutional Strategic Initiative formed in partnership between the University of Toronto and the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, which aims to advance equitable heart failure care by co-designing digital health solutions that are sustainable, culturally appropriate, and effective in real-world settings.

She received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, Cardiology training at Dalhousie University, and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiac Transplantation at Stanford University, California. She earned her Master’s Degree in Bioethics from the University of Toronto. She has published over 480 peer reviewed articles, with an H index of 82 and > 28 thousand citations, trained > 48 highly qualified personnel and received > 49 million dollars in peer reviewed research funding. She has won numerous awards including Inventor of the year (UHN 2022), the Inter-American Society of Cardiology Lifetime Achievement Award (2025), the Canadian Society of Transplantation Lifetime Achievement Award (2022), the inaugural CCS Women in Cardiovascular Medicine/Science Mentorship Award (2020) and the Canadian Heart Failure Society Annual Achievement Award (2019). Importantly, her work with Indigenous communities in Ontario was recently awarded an Ontario Health Quality Award (2024).