Research Summer Student 2026

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Position Summary:

This studentship experience takes place in the Cardiac Catheterization Clinical Research Laboratory at Sinai Health/University Health Network. The overriding objective is to improve physiology based tools to predict right ventricular failure in patients with heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. The tools can be utilized with data obtained from clinically indicated right heart catheterization (RHC). These tools then refine the information employed to support selection of interventions in clinical care.

The student joins ongoing projects recruiting patients referred for RHC for evaluation for candidacy of advanced HF therapies. Patients are enrolled prospectively in a registry that allows our team to maintain a repository of hemodynamic recordings for signal processing and offline analysis. These signals include continuously recorded right atrial, right ventricular, and pulmonary artery pressure waveforms. We have developed methodology for analysis of RV:PA coupling using a single beat method. The summer student project will analyse RV-PA coupling from patients from our advanced heart failure program, who are supported with left ventricular assist devices. In this part of our project, we are assessing different measurements of pulmonary vascular afterload, the effect of these loads on RV-PA coupling, and finally the relationship between these measurements and longer term outcomes of these patients, particularly after heart transplantation. Our preliminary results suggest that abnormalities of PA compliance are related to early graft failure and 30 day mortality after transplant.

The student will join the team that includes an MD-PhD mechanical engineering graduate student to post process the hemodynamic signals acquired. The student will also assist in the design of analyses to leverage these data. We are collaborating with Dr. Alba at UHN to continually identify the outcomes of these patients. The laboratory continually recruits residents from the , general internal medicine program engaged in their research experience, who extract clinical data required.

The student will have access to office space, signals, programs for data analysis and regular meetings with the aforementioned team. The student will also gain exposure to a clinical environment with multidisciplinary personnel. The student’s role will be to assist in programming, signal processing and data analysis.

Duties:

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