Our Team
Learn more about the Children’s Heart Centre Research team.
Staff
Dr. Kevin Harris
Director of Research at the BC Children’s Hospital Heart Centre
Dr. Kevin Harris
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist and Investigator at BC Children’s
President of the Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Society
Research Areas: Interventional pediatric cardiology, cardiovascular outcomes, preventive cardiology
Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani
Pediatric Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Former President of Research for the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society
Research Areas: Pediatric electrophysiology, arrhythmias, inherited arrhythmias, sudden death
Dr. Martin Hosking
Interim Division Head of Cardiology, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Martin Hosking
Pediatric Interventional Cardiologist and Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Research Areas: Coronary Artery Vasculopathy and applications of Optical Coherence Tomography
Dr. Kathryn Armstrong
Pediatric Cardiologist and Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Kathryn Armstrong
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Research Areas: Heart function, pediatric heart transplant, dysautonomia of adolescence
Dr. Derek Human
Pediatric and Outpatient Cardiologist and Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Derek Human
Medical Director for Quality and Safety
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Research Areas: Management of congenital heart disease, delivery of healthcare
Highlights: Established travelling cardiology clinics
Dr. Shreya Moodley
Pediatric Cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Shreya Moodley
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Dr. Ashok Kakadekar
Pediatric Cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Ashok Kakadekar
Dr. George Sandor
Professor Emeritus and Investigator
Research Areas: Congenital heart disease, echocardiography, cardiac vascular function
Dr. Steven Rathgeber
Pediatric Cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Steven Rathgeber
Dr. Sonia Franciosi
Research Associate
Dr. Sonia Franciosi
Research Associate
Research Areas: Pediatric Arrhythmia, sudden death, and the autonomic nervous system
Dania Kallas
Research Coordinator
Dania Kallas
Research Area: Pediatric Arrhythmia, Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Inherited Arrhythmias, Sudden Death
Claire Galvin
Research Coordinator
Claire Galvin
Research Focus: Digital Health, quality of life and symptom management in dysautonomia of adolescence
Dr. Najah Adreak, MD, MSc
Research Assistant
Research Areas: Mini-invasive cardiac surgery, congenital heart surgery, digital health, women’s heart health
Affiliated Researchers
Dr. Christine Voss
Affiliate Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Christine Voss
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC Faculty of Medicine
Investigator, UBC Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Affiliate Investigator, Interior Health
Research Areas: Physical activity and Congenital Heart Disease
Clinical Trainees
Eva Kapravelou
Research focus: Echocardiography
Francesca de la Cruz
Francesca de la Cruz
Research focus: Congenital heart disease
Sripadh Upadhya
Sripadh Upadhya
Research focus: Systematic Review of the MAPCAS- Outcome and prognosis
Graduate Students
Bianca Fukakusa
Experimental Medicine Master’s Student
Bianca Fukakusa
Research focus: Testing the feasibility, acceptability, and sustainability of a physical activity counselling intervention for children with congenital heart disease
Nikol Grishin
Kinesiology Master’s Student
Nikol Grishin
Research focus: Exercise rehabilitation in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients and congenital heart disease
Undergraduate Students
Monika Jandu
Monika Jandu
Pearl Waraich
Pearl Waraich
Previous Staff
Dr. Walter Duncan
Pediatric Cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Walter Duncan
Clinical Professor, Program Director (Subspecialty Program in Pediatric Cardiology) and Investigator
Research Areas: Clinical pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac catheterization
Previous Trainees
Eimear McGovern
Pediatric Cardiology Fellow
Eimear McGovern
Research Area: Interventional pediatric cardiology
Winner (Fellow category): 29th Annual National Pediatric Resident and Fellow Research Competition for work entitled “Optical coherence tomography for the early detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in cardiac transplant recipients: Findings from the International Pediatric OCT Registry” – 2017
Nitin Arora
Nitin Arora
Mimi Kuan
Mimi Kuan
Caroline Illmann
Caroline Illmann
Saketh Vijayashankar
Pediatric Cardiology Fellow
Saketh Vijayashankar
