CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund Awarded to CINQ

Dr. Johri has been awarded the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund to bolster the CINQ’s research collaboration with Dr. Parvin Mousavi from the Queen’s Medical Informatics Laboratory.

This grant will fund the development of an advanced imaging tool for the detection and analysis of high risk plaque for the treatment of heart disease.

Read more about this project and about the other Queen’s recipients at the Queen’s gazette.

CINQ on the cover of JASE

This month’s issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography features artwork from our State-of-the-Art review article “Novel Ultrasound Methods to Investigate Carotid Plaque Vulnerability” by Dr. Amer Johri, Julia Herr, Terry Li, Olivia Yau, and Dr. Vijay Nambi

Read the article here

Basmajian Research Award

Dr. Johri was the recipient of the 2015/16 Mihran and Mary Basmajian Award for Excellence in Health Research, which was established by Dr. John Basmajian, former Head of the Department of Anatomy at Queen’s University, over four decades ago. It is given to full-time members of the Faculty of Health Sciences who are judged to have made the most meritorious contributions to health research during the previous year or several years.

Dr. Johri presented the Basmajian lecture on November 24, 2016. It was entitled: “Look to Windward: Novel Vascular Ultrasound Applications for Atherosclerosis

Goodbye Guangzhou- Village of Water but City of Glass

An end to amazing cultural experience. We left Guangzhou and I met up with the other Canadian scientists visiting with the program in Beijing (JP from Ottawa and Joon from Waterloo).  We have out final presentations to the Chinese official overseeing this first exchange with Canada.  We all thought this was a great way to connect with Chinese researchers and recommended continuing the program. 
Time for some last minute sight seeing here in Beijing and then headed back home. 








Navigating high volume echo at Guangdong General- 6 scans an hour! @ase360

Navigating a metro system serving a city of ~25 million people and all in Chinese- no problem- I can get you anywhere.  Just follow me close or be lost in the crush.  Once aboard enjoy the city’s best free wifi on the train. 
Notice how everyone is thin! It’s because they don’t eat bread but enjoy a ton of seafood, some sort of red spiky lycee, and something called DragonFruit.  Surprisingly Dr Zhou tells me that heart disease is on an alarming rise in China, and perhaps is the number one killer above cancer now- making my visit to Guangdong General Hospital Cardiovascular Institute all the more prescient.
The Institute is open air and I have the opportunity to present to an audience of approximately 50 medical students, residents, and cardiologists. I received great questions on my work in cardiac risk stratification and carotid ultrasound. So glad I was able to impart some knowledge during this visit.  
The echo lab here is high volume~ 5-6 patients scanned in an hour. The physician does the scan (there are no sonographers) and an assistant quickly types up a report. Each TTE is a limited study of about 10 images saved.  But..but… What about assessing the PASP I ask for the image below?   Too late the next 30 patients are waiting…
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