Career Stories
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Thank you to our CWHHA members who have shared their inspiring research and clinical stories to spark interest as well as provide information, guidance, and direction to those interested in a career in women’s heart health but unsure where to start.
Jessica Forcillo, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCSC
Cardiac Surgeon, Montreal, QC
"I am a woman working in a man’s world and I want to make a difference for the women that I treat."
Judy Luu, MD/PhD, FRCPC
Women’s Heart Health Cardiologist | Montreal, QC
"I am particularly interested in finding solutions to improve healthcare for women from marginalized groups, including those from ethnic backgrounds, remote areas, and racialized communities."
Meagan Noble, BA(Kin), BScN, MN-CSRS, NP-Adult
Nurse Practitioner | Toronto, ON
"Witnessing the knowledge and treatments gaps in women presenting to the emergency department with "non-traditional" chest pain as a Registered Nurse ignited a passion to empower others, by increasing awareness of women’s sex-specific risk factors and symptom presentations of cardiac pain at large."
Nazli Parast, RN, CDE, BScN, MScN, EdD
Advance Practice Nurse, Ottawa, ON
“I know firsthand what it means to be misdiagnosed and dismissed. Nursing education regarding women’s heart health is extremely limited even though the majority of nurses are women.”
Robin Pohl, BPE, ACSM-CEP
Cardiac Rehab Exercise Therapist, Burlington, ON
“There are so many opportunities to work in healthcare and the fitness industry to promote women’s heart health…There are endless possibilities!"
Carolyn Baer, MD, FRCPC
General Internist, Moncton NB
“By virtue of identifying as a woman and by seeing more and more women with heart disease requiring care, I began focusing on women’s heart health.”
Gabriela Lima de Melo Ghisi (she/her), BSc PT, MSc, PhD
Affiliate Scientist
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network Toronto, Ontario
“During my clinical work as a PT in Brazil, I observed that women were significantly underrepresented in low-resource cardiac rehab programs. When I moved to Canada for my PhD and began working with cardiac rehab programs in a high-income setting, I noticed a similar trend: those who needed these programs the most were still not accessing them. "
