Dr. Alexandra Bastiany, is an interventional cardiologist practicing in Ontario, Canada.
She earned her medical degree and completed her Internal medicine and Cardiology training at the Université de Montréal (UdeM). She graduated with honors, as the UdeM Faculty of Medicine first Black valedictorian. Dr. Bastiany then successfully completed a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology in Alberta, making her the first Black female Canadian Interventional Cardiologist.
Dr. Bastiany is fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole. She was born and raised in Montreal of Haitian parents and developed a strong interest in community work amongst visible minorities. She took direct action, and partnered with La Maison d’Haïti in Montreal, a community center in her childhood neighborhood.
She has also worked directly with other local community organizations, and started career days for minority and children from underserved communities, working to provide them with representation via professional role models.
More recently, she was a guest speaker at the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre, and helped raise awareness around cardiovascular disease in Indigenous women.
Combining her expertise in cardiovascular disease, her passion for community work and her social media platforms, Dr. Bastiany is actively working to decrease the race and gender biases leading to differences in standard of care and clinical outcomes.
