Assistant Professor
CHFS
Research Institute McGill University Health Centre
Dr. Abhinav Sharma is an assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). He is a Fonds de Recherche du Québec Sante (FRQS) Junior 2 clinician-scientist which protects 50% of his research time. His research program focuses on the clinical population of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and heart failure (HF), thereby aligning with his clinical training (Advanced Heart Failure – Stanford University). He has extensive experience in large data modelling and machine learning (ML) approaches through his research fellowship and PhD training. His research program focuses on: 1) identifying sex-specific HF risk models using clinical variables and proteomic approaches in patients with T2DM (funded CIHR 2021-23); 2) Utilize ML approaches to identify phenotypes in patients with T2DM (funded Heart/Stroke 2022-27); and 3) Utilize artificial intelligence to create new digital biomarkers from wearable devices to screen for T2DM (funded MEDTEQ 2021-24). He has won a 2024 American Heart Association 'Top Principal Investigator' award and the 2024 McGill University Department of Medicine Early Career Award for Excellence in Research.
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121 - CHFS SPOTLIGHT: BEYOND FUROSEMIDE: RETHINKING DIURETICS IN COMPLEX HEART FAILURE
Thursday, October 23, 2025
11:15am - 12:15pm ET