Ian M.c. Dixon MD

Dr. Dixon has worked as a Professor of Physiology at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences since 1992. He obtained his PhD at the University of Manitoba in 1990, and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto with Drs. Mike Sole and C.C. Liew. During his career, he has published 88 full-length research papers and 18 book chapters with 124 abstracts. Collaborating with Dr. Jeffrey Wigle, Dixon recently co-edited a book entitled “Cardiac fibrosis and heart failure: Cause or effect?”. Dr. Dixon is a past MRC (CIHR) scholar, MHRC scholar, and has held studentships and post-doctoral fellowships from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Medical Research Council of Canada. He is the past winner of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba Robert E. Beamish Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research (2002 and 2007), and a recipient of the Myles Robinson Heart Health Scholarship. He has served for many national and international review committees in basic cardiovascular sciences including Chairing for reviews within the Heart and Stroke Foundation (Canada), and as committee member for CIHR and current membership with the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH). Dixon has reviewed for Wellcome Trust, Alberta Heritage Foundation, and the Michael Smith Foundation.