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Walter Duncan , MD, FRCPC, FACC

Cardiologist, Cardiac Sciences Program, BC Children’s Hospital
 
Appointment
 
Program Director Post graduate Medical Education, Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UBC
 
Bio
 
Dr. Walter J. Duncan, is a senior cardiologist in the Cardiac Sciences Program and Children’s Heart Centre of BC Children’s Hospital, as well as Director of Post Graduate Medical Education in the Division of Cardiology. His main interests are in clinical cardiology, as well as in medical education and echocardiography.
 
Dr. Duncan was born and raised in Saskatchewan where he obtained his MD. Following specialty and sub-specialty training in Toronto at the Hospital for Sick Children, he then assumed a position as director of the echocardiography laboratory in 1979. In 1982 he returned to Saskatchewan as an associate professor. After eight years in Saskatchewan, he was appointed as division head of a new cardiac facility at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario where he worked until 1997. Since 1998, he has been at BC’s Children’s Hospital and at the University of British Columbia.
 
Dr. Duncan continues to have a focus in medical education at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Through the 1990’s he was an examiner and later the chief examiner in the sub-specialty examinations for pediatric cardiology.
 
Credentials
 
MD, University of Saskatchewan, 1974
FRCP(C), Pediatrics, 1979
FAAP, 1980
FRCP(C), Pediatric Cardiology, 1981
FACC, 1983
Professional organization memberships
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Chair 1997-1999 and Member 1991-1995, Examination Board
Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Society
American College of Cardiology
 
Awards and honors
 
Excellence in Teaching, University of British Columbia

Special interests
 
Dr. Duncan has special interests in echocardiography, cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiac procedures, and medical education.


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Shubhayan Sanatani, MD, FRCPC

Director, Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Children’s Heart Centre
 
Appointment
 
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
 
Bio
 
Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani is the pediatric cardiac electrophysiologist at Children’s Heart Centre. His primary focus is the care of patients with arrhythmias and devices.
 
Dr. Sanatani completed his medical degree at the University of British Columbia after completing an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. He went on to do a Pediatrics Residency at Queen’s University before returning to do a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship. Following this, he pursued further subspecialty training in Electrophysiology at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and St. Paul’s Hospital. He joined the medical staff in 2001 as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Director of the Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Services at the Children’s Heart Centre at BC Children’s Hospital.
 
Dr. Sanatani has a clinical and research focus in electrophysiology. He has a special interest in supraventricular tachycardia, post-operative arrhythmias, and sudden death. He is a member of the Heart Rhythm Society (formerly the North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology) as well as the Canadian Sudden Arrhythmic Death Society Medical Advisory. He collaborates regularly with the Section of Electrophysiology at St Paul’s Hospital.
 
Credentials
 
B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, 1989
MD, University of British Columbia, 1993
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Pediatrics, 1997
Sub-specialty certificate, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Pediatric Cardiology, 1999
Clinical fellowship in Pediatric electrophysiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1999-2000
Clinical fellowship in Adult electrophysiology, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, 2000-01
Professional organization memberships
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Canadian Cardiovascular Society
Heart Rhythm Society
 
Awards and honors

JP Diamond Prize for Cardiovascular Research, 1997
Disenhouse Award for Clinical Research in Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children, 2000
Wilfred G Bigelow Canadian Traveling Fellowship, 2000
Rookie of the Year, Department of Pediatrics, 2001-02
Golden Rattle award, Department of Pediatrics, 2003-04
 
Selected publications
 
Sanatani S, Potts JE, Human DG, Sandor GG, Patterson MW, Gordon Culham JA. Balloon angioplasty of right ventricular outflow tract conduits. Pediatr Cardiol. 2001 May-Jun;22(3):228-32.
 
Sanatani S, Saul JP, Walsh EP, Gross GJ. Spontaneously terminating apparent ventricular fibrillation during transesophageal electrophysiological testing in infants with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2001 Dec;24(12):1816-8.
 
Sanatani S. The Long QT Syndrome: half a century of electrophysiology. British Columbia Medical Journal, 2002;44(2):86-92.
 
Sanatani S, Peirone A, Chiu C, Human DG, Gross GJ, Hamilton RM. Use of an implantable loop recorder in the evaluation of children with congenital heart disease. Am Heart J. 2002 Feb;143(2):366-72.
 
Sanatani S, Hamilton RM, Gross GJ. Predictors of refractory tachycardia in infants with supraventricular tachycardia. Pediatr Cardiol. 2002 Sep-Oct;23(5):508-12.
 
Sanatani S, Chiu C, Nykanen D, Coles J, West L, Hamilton R. Evolution of heart rate control after transplantation: conduction versus autonomic innervation. Pediatr Cardiol 2004 Mar-Apri;25(2):113-8.
Sanatani S. Flecainide induced ventricular fibrillation in a neonate. Heart, Feb 2004.
 
Selected recent presentations
 
Repolarization disorders in inherited arrhythmia syndromes: Substrates and emerging management strategies. Presented at NASPE Annual Scientific Sessions, Washington, DC. May 2003.
 
Quality of life in adult congenital heart disease with arrhythmias. Western Pediatric Cardiology Association Meeting, Seattle. Sept 2003.
 
Sudden death in pediatric cardiology. Lecture at first annual Canadian Critical Care Conference, Whistler, BC. Feb 2004.
 
Emergency management of arrhythmias. Lecture at first annual Canadian Critical Care Conference, Whistler, BC. Feb 2004.
 
Special interests
 
Marathon running, ice hockey.


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Brian Sinclair, MD

Pediatric Cardiologist
Chief of Pediatrics and Program Director, Vancouver Island Health Authority (South Island)

Appointment
Clinical Associate Professor, UBC
 
Bio
 
Dr. Brian Sinclair is a native British Columbian, born and raised in Vancouver. He received his medical degree from the University of Calgary in 1986, returning to BC to complete his training in Pediatrics and Cardiology at BC Children’s Hospital. He completed his training with a year of advanced echocardiography training in Oregon. In 1995, he became the Director of Echocardiography at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario a position he held for seven years. From 2002 to the present he has been living and working in Victoria, with a part time appointment at BC Children’s. His clinical work provides cardiac non-invasive services within the Vancouver Island Health Authority. As Chief of Pediatrics, he carries a significant role in the expanding pediatric services on Vancouver Island.
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Credentials
 
B.Sc. Zoology, University of British Columbia, 1982.
MD University of Calgary, 1986.
FRCP(C), Pediatrics, 1993.
American Board of Pediatrics, 1995
Sub-specialty in Pediatric Cardiology, 1994
American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board in Cardiology, 2002.

Professional organization memberships
 
Canadian Cardiovascular Society
Member, National Ethics committee
American College of Cardiology
American Society of Echocardiography
 
Special interests

Clinical cardiology, with a special emphasis on fetal echocardiography. Areas of research include exercise physiology, utility of digital echocardiography, and the use of echo in the assessment of fetal physiology and cardiac function. Clinical and didactic teaching roles remain a significant part of Dr. Sinclair’s academic interests, and with the expansion of the distributed medical school faculty, he participates actively in the Island Medical Program.