With Dr. Tara Sedlak, the only certified Women’s Heart Health Cardiologist in Canada. The link between discrimination and your health and wellness is undeniable. It's all about the social determinants of health. The World Health Organization describes them as “non-medical factors that influence health outcomes”, the “conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.” 

Discrimination based on gender and other connected factors like our race and ability impacts our health in so many ways. For example, we get treated differently based on our gender in healthcare settings. Our access to relevant health services and options differs wildly depending on our gender. Even the medical research that gets funded and acted on depends on our gender.  

May 28 is International Day of Action for Women's Health, so for the next few episodes, we’ll focus on pressing gender and health matters we may know bits and pieces of but probably need to learn more about. 

Dr. Tara Sedlak joins us today to talk about women and heart health. She grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia, receiving her Bachelor’s degree with Honours from the University of Alberta and her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of British Columbia. She was awarded the Gold Medal for top graduate from the Doctor of Medicine Program. She completed two specialist residencies at the University of British Columbia, where she twice served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Sedlak also completed a fellowship at Cedar Sinai Medical Centre with Dr. Bairey Merz, the world’s leading expert in women’s heart health. Dr. Sedlak is the only certified Women’s Heart Health Cardiologist in Canada and she also practices General Cardiology.  

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