Anita Asgar MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACC

Dr. Anita Asgar is an interventional cardiologist working at the Montreal Heart Institute since 2009. Originally from Newfoundland, Dr. Asgar completed her medical studies and residency in internal medicine at Memorial University (1995-2002). ). She then moved to Dalhousie to continue her training in cardiology in 2002. Following 2 years of fellowship in interventional cardiology at the Montreal Heart Institute, she crossed the Atlantic to London, England, to complete a fellowship in congenital intervention and structural at the Royal Brompton Hospital, as well as a fellowship in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

Recently named one of the Young Leaders in Interventional Cardiology by the CRT in February 2010, she is a full-time cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, as well as director of the catheterization valve therapy clinic. She is an active member of the Cardiac Structural Intervention Program, performing over 70 transcatheter aortic valve replacements per year, as well as numerous congenital procedures. In December 2010, she began the first catheterized mitral valve leaflet repair program in Quebec and is the leading physician in this therapy in Canada. His research interests include treatment and management of valvular heart disease and cost-effectiveness analysis.