Dr. Amir Ravandi

Biography

Dr. Amir Ravandi received his undergraduate degree, from University of Toronto and went on to complete a PhD at the Banting and Best Medical Research Institute at University of Toronto. He was at the Terrence Donnelly Vascular Research Labs at St. Michaels’s Hospital as postdoctoral fellow. After obtaining his MD at University of Toronto he went on to complete his internal medicine and cardiology training at McMaster University. He completed a fellowship in coronary and peripheral vascular interventions at University of California at San Diego. He is currently on staff at St. Boniface Hospital as an interventional cardiologist. He is also an assistant professor of cardiology and physiology at University of Manitoba. He is a principal investigator at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences. His current focus is utilizing lipidomics to further our understanding of myocardial ischemia and plaque rupture.

Research Interest

The general focus of Dr. Ravandi’s laboratory is to study lipid oxidation products and their contribution to cardiovascular pathology. The laboratory uses LC/MS/MS Lipidomic platform for quantitation and identification of lipid oxidation products in both animal models and clinical conditions to determine the involvement of oxidized lipids in both cardiac and vascular lesions. The ultimate goal is to not only identify the contribution of bioactive lipids to cardiac muscle injury but also to determine new therapeutic approaches to prevent the pathological effects of oxidized lipids.