Providing you with the best doctors for the best care
CARDIOLOGISTS
Dr. Anatoly Langer, MD, M.Sc., FRCPS(C)
Anatoly Langer MD, M.Sc., FRCPS(C), is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Chair of the Canadian Heart Research Centre in Toronto and the International Centre for Professional Development in Health and Medicine in Montreal. He is a senior partner with over 300 peer reviewed publications, abstracts, and book chapters and extensive research experience in the conduct of clinical trials who has recently served for two years as an independent consultant on the Canadian Drug Evaluation Committee (CDEC) at CADTH.
Dr Tawfiq Zeidan Shwiri, MD
Dr Tawfiq Zeidan Shwiri is an internist, cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist with over ten years experience at three major city hospitals.
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After medical school at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dr Shwiri completed this internal medicine and cardiology fellowship at Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel. This was followed by a Cardiac Electrophysiology fellowship with the Arrhythmia Services Group at Sunnybrook Hospital and the University of Toronto.
Dr Shwiri is also the chief of cardiology at the Moncton city hospital in New Brunswick and an Ass. Prof. Of
Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, and Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s, NL.
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Dr Shwiri is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic and English and will happily provide medical services in any of the three languages.
Dr. Chris Konstantinou, MD, DABIM
Dr. Konstantinou graduated with Honours from Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1989. He moved to Canada and went on to pursue Specialty training in Internal Medicine at University Health Network (Toronto General) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He completed his Cardiology training at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine then went on to pursue a subspecialty fellowship in Nuclear Cardiology at St. Michael's Hospital.
Dr. Konstantinou is one of the founding members of Cardiomatters and has been in private practice since 1995 and he co-directs the Cardiomatters Medical Imaging Laboratory located at the Steeles site. His clinical interests include the early diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease that includes non-invasive assessment via Stress Echo, Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and CT Angiography with Calcium scoring. Other clinical cardiac conditions of particular interest are Heart Failure (Reduced and Preserved EF), various Cardiomyopathies (Hypertrophic and Dilated) and Congenital Heart Disease. He is a knowledgeable and caring physician who emphasizes patient care and takes great pride in putting his patients at ease while they go through their assessment.
Dr. David Newman, MD, FRCPC, FACC
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Dr. David Newman is a Cardiologist who also specializes in the treatment of rhythm disorders of the heart. He is an expert in catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, novel therapies for atrial fibrillation and cardiac implantable devices.
Dr. Newman is currently affiliated with the arrhythmia service at Sunnybrook Hospital, where he does his procedures and assists in teaching cardiac electrophysiology (EP) to cardiologists and cardiologists-in-training. He is and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and is widely regarded as an expert specialist in his field. Dr. Newman received his medical training in Halifax, followed by specialty training in universities in Toronto, San Francisco and Stanford, California. He takes pride in providing prompt and highly expert assessment of patients’ arrhythmia-related concerns, and feels it is time to go ‘from GP to EP’ when needed.
Dr. Shadi Akhtari, MD, FRCPC, FACC
Dr. Shadi Akhtari is a staff cardiologist at Women’s College Hospital, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, and a Clinician in Quality and Innovation, University of Toronto. She specializes in advanced cardiac imaging. Apart from clinical practice of general cardiology and multi-modality cardiac imaging, her other areas of interest are prevention, diagnosis, and management of coronary artery disease, particularly in those with underlying inflammatory disease. She runs the cardio-rheumatology clinic at WCH, directed at improving quality of cardiac care offered to patients with rheumatic disease. She has an interest in development and evaluation of innovative models of care and healthcare delivery, particularly through virtual care.
Dr. Akhtari graduated from Queen’s University School of Medicine and has completed further specialty and subspecialty training in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Adult Echocardiography (Level 3 training) at McGill University. She worked as a staff cardiologist at McGill University Health Centre prior to leaving to pursue additional training in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Level 3 training) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, as well as certification in Cardiac Computed Tomography (Level 2 training) from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Most recently, she has completed a Master’s degree in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a diplomate of the National Board of Echocardiography.
Dr. Waseem Hindieh, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Waseem Hindieh is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He is also a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. He received his medical degree from McGill University where he also completed his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship training. In addition, he pursued a 2 year clinical/research fellowship in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy at Toronto General Hospital as well as a 1 year fellowship in Level III Echocardiography at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is board certified by the National Board of Echocardiography. He currently works as a full time Cardiologist at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, ON affiliated to McMaster University. His interests include general cardiology, valvular
heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac imaging.
Dr. Anil Yadav, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS
Dr. Anil Yadav is a native of Toronto and obtained his undergraduate education and medical degree at the University of Western Ontario. Thereafter he completed Internal Medicine training at the University of Toronto and his cardiology fellowship at the University of Texas SouthWestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He further specialized in the field of cardiac electrophysiology by completing his cardiac EP fellowship with his mentor Dr. Melvin Scheinman at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Yadav was recruited thereafter by Dr. Zipes at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Yadav developed a large clinical cardiac electrophysiology practice and rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. He has published over 20 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters and garnered several teaching awards at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society and was a member of the editorial board of the leading journal in cardiac EP Heart Rhythm for over a decade.
Dr. Yadav now returns to his native Toronto and is working at Cardiomatters to continue expanding EP services to patients in York Region. His clinical interests include all aspects of cardiac electrophysiology including implantation and management of cardiac rhythm devices (including pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization devices), catheter ablation of both supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. In addition, a comprehensive cardiology and cardiac EP consultative service will also be developed to serve the growing need of the region and improve access and timely delivery of cardiac care.