Dr. James Gordon Abel, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Vancouver, BC

Head, PHC Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of British Columbia. Associate Head, UBC Division of Cardiovascular Surgery Dr Abel completed General Surgery and Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Toronto, and joined the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital in 1993. He headed the Cardiac Transplant Program from 1996 until 2001, and has a clinical interest in higher risk coronary revascularization, left ventricular remodeling, and valve repair and replacement surgery as an alternative to transplantation. He was the first to do concomitant radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation in the open heart in BC and is a leader in cardiac surgical training. Since arriving in BC he has been involved in outcomes analysis with the BC Cardiac Surgical Registry, and led the Cardiac Surgical Working Group of Cardiac Services British Columbia which developed and transitioned the Registry to the electronic web-based HeartIS system used today. He chairs the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Cardiac Surgery Quality Indicator group which, in partnership with CIHI, releases annual national cardiac surgical outcomes publicly.
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