Subodh Verma

Dr Subodh Verma is a cardiac surgeon-scientist, Full Professor, and the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, a past member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and a past recipient of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal in Surgery. Dr Verma has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Clinical Medicine since 2022 (Google Scholar h-index 131 in January 2025) and was bestowed the University of Calgary Cumming School Medicine Alumnus of Distinction Award for Research in 2023. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Cardiology, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the European Journal of Heart Failure, an Editorial Consultant for JACC and the current Scientific Program Committee Chair for the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons. Dr Verma has actively contributed to Canadian and American clinical practice guidelines, and he had/has leadership roles in numerous contemporary global heart failure, cardiometabolic disease, and atherosclerosis trials. Dr Verma founded the CardioLink platform in 2015 that united cardiac surgeons from across Canada to conduct robust clinical trials to better inform on surgical decision-making pathways. He also leads a dynamic translational research team that leverages preclinical disease models and clinical trial-derived data to identify novel mediators of cardiometabolic diseases.

Other Appointments & Affiliations

• Cardiac Surgeon, Division of Cardiology , St. Michael’s Hospital
• Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto
• Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery