Abhinav Sharma

Dr. Abhinav Sharma is a cardiologist, assistant professor, and clinician-scientist in the division of cardiology at McGill University. He completed his medical school and internal medicine from McMaster University and his cardiology fellowship from the University of Alberta. He completed his PhD in epidemiology with a thesis focusing on the intersection of diabetes (T2DM) and heart failure (HF). He conducted a research fellowship at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (2015-2017). After his Advanced HF and cardiac transplant fellowship (Stanford University; 2017-2018), he was a visiting scholar at Stanford focusing on digital technologies in patients with HF. He is a Junior 2 Fonds du Recherche Santé Quebec chercheurs-cliniciens scholar and World Heart Federation Emerging leader. He is the founder and co-director of the DECIDE-CV Cardiometabolic Clinic at the McGill University Health Centre. Furthermore, he is the heart failure fellowship program director for the McGill University Health Centre. His research work has enabled him to be a part of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Heart Failure Guideline committee and the CCS Cardio-Renal Guideline Committee for 2022. His research lab at McGill University (DREAM-CV) focuses on identifying leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate the use and identification of therapies in patients with type 2 diabetes and heart failure.