In this episode, Dr. Marc Ruel, the Michael Pitfield Professor and Chairman, Head, and Endowed Chair of Research in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, speaks with Dr. Donna May Kimmaliardjuk, the first Inuk cardiac surgeon in Canada, as she is currently completing an advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Kimmaliardjuk talks about her passion for cardiac surgery, improving techniques, the challenges of preventing, diagnosing, and treating cardiovascular disease in remote communities, and her career goals as one of Canada’s best and brightest young cardiac surgeons.