The Oudit Research Program

Dr. Oudit is a professor, staff cardiologist and clinician-scientist in the Department of Medicine and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta. He completed his BSc, MSc and MD studies at the University of Toronto. He then embarked on his training in Internal Medicine and the Clinician-Investigator Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, followed by training in Adult Cardiology at the University of Toronto. He completed a four-year post-doctoral fellowship in the molecular biology of heart failure. His clinical activity places a primary emphasis on heart failure which includes patients with iron-overload cardiomyopathy, muscular dystrophy, Fabry's disease, metabolic disorders and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. He is the Director of the Heart Function Clinic and he currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Heart Failure. He is a full member of Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), American College of Cardiology (ACC) American Heart Association (AHA), European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA).

Current Trainees

• Basu, Ratnadeep, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine)
• Chen-Song, Dale, BSc student
• Chen, Xueyi, PhD candidate
• DesAulniers, Jessica, Research Technician
• Gheblawi, Mahmoud, PhD student
• Miskew-Nichols, Bailey, MD student (STiR)
• Moukaskas, Basel, Hon. Physiology
• Mundi, Kudrat, BSc student

• Nguyen, Quynh, MD student
• Nikhanj, Anish, PhD student
• Wang, Billy, Hon. Physiology
• Wang, Faqi, PhD, Research Technician
• Wang, Wang, PhD, Research associate
• Yogasundaram, Haran, MD, PGY-2 (Cardiology)
• Zhabyeyev, Pavel, PhD, Research associate
• Zhang, Hao, PhD student

• Al Balushi, Asim, MD (Peds. Cardiology)
• Alherbish, Aws, MD (Cardiology, Ontario)
• Bodiga, Sreedhar, Asst. Professor (India)
• Byrns, Simon, MD (Surgery)
• Chen, Christopher, Graduate student
• Chow, Fung, MD (Family Med.)
• Das, Subhash, PDF (Yale)
• Fischer, Conrad, PDF
• Guo, Danny, MD (Dermatology, UBC)
• Hsu, Ying-Han, MD (Pathologist)

• Karpyshyn, Jillian, MD student
• Kazemian, Pedram, MD (Cardiologist, NJ)
• Lezutekong, Judith, PhD candidate
• Lim, Kenji, Graduate student
• Lo, Jennifer Yi Ting, MD (Pediatrics)
• McKinnie, Shaun, PDF (UC San Diego)
• McLean, Brent, PDF (UofT)
• Mori, Jun, MD (Pediatrics, Japan)
• Murphy, Colm, MD (Cardiologist)
• Parajuli, Nirmal, Asst. Professor (South Dakota)

• Patel, Vaibhav, Asst. Professor (UofC)
• Putko, Brendan, MD (Neurology)
• Ramprasath, Tharmarajan, Graduate student
• Shah, Saumya, MD
• Steed, Justin, MD (Family Med.)
• Tang, Jack, MD student (Yale)
• Valtuille, Lucas, MD (Cardiologist)
• Wen, Kevin, MD (Nephrologist)
• Zhong, Jiu-Chang, Professor (China)

 Translational Research

1. Role of PI3alpha and PI3Kbeta Kinase Pathway
2. Cardiovascular Toxicity of PI3Kalpha Inhibitors - Novel Cancer Therapy
3. Metabolic Basis of Heart Failure
4. Iron Deficiency and Heart Failure
5. Apelin Pathway in Cardiovascular Diseases
6. Human Explanted Heart Program (HELP) - A Translational Bridge for Cardiovascular Medicine.
7. Pathogenesis of Pediatric versus Adult Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Clinical Research

1. Cardiomyopathy associated with Fabry Disease
2. Outcomes in Patients with Muscular Dystrophy
3. Heart Function Registry - insight into Clinic Heart Failure
4. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction - Alberta HEART Project
5. Genetic Basis for Cardiomyopathies
6. Apelin Analogues as New Therapeutics for Cardiovascular Diseases