The Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Specialization is an exciting program created to develop co-operative and joint graduate teaching and research across departmental boundaries under the Faculties of Applied Science & Engineering, Kinesiology and Physical Education, Medicine and Pharmacy. The Program builds on the strengths of the collaborating graduate departments (Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry; Kinesiology; Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering; Institute of Medical Science; Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology; Medical Biophysics; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Pharmacology; Physiology; and Rehabilitation Science) and the clinical departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Medicine and Surgery - enhancing the visibility of cardiovascular studies and facilitating interdisciplinary training and research.
The Program offers diverse areas of training including 2 major streams of studies: Cardiac and Vascular.
Research in Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Toronto has a long and illustrious history. This includes contributions to the discovery of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and the first clinical use of heparin. Faculty at the University of Toronto were among the first to perform successful open heart surgery and discover and implement the use of hypothermia to protect the heart during surgery. Many life saving pediatric surgical procedures, now used worldwide, were first used by surgeons at the University. With these many achievements, Toronto and the University is an excellent environment in which to learn and grow.
Programs leading to an MSc and PhD are offered through the " Collaborating Graduate Departments". The Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Specialization is NOT a degree granting program. A separate application, with attachments, is submitted to the Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Specialization office.
The Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Specialization was honoured with the 2004 Northrop Frye Divisional Award recognizing the critically important contribution made by this innovative program promoting exemplary linkages between teaching and research at the University of Toronto.
L-R: Robert Birgeneau (President), Michael Marrus (Dean, School of Graduate Studies)
Carin Wittnich (Director, CSCS), Catherine Whiteside (Associate Dean, Graduate & Inter-Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Medicine)
Financial support for the Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Specialization is provided by the participating units – with a special mention to our major graduate units including the Institute of Medical Science and the Departments of Physiology and Kinesiology – and special thanks to the Translational Biology and Engineering Program (TBEP).