Jagdish Butany MBBS, MS, FRCPC

Jagdish Butany is a Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Director of the Division of Pathology in the Department. He is a Staff Cardiovascular Pathologist at the University Health Network (Toronto General Hospital Site), and Director of Autopsy Services. Dr. Butany works in an interdisciplinary setting with colleagues from related specialties and other health professions. Dr. Butany's investigative work has primarily been based on clinical investigations and outcomes and collaboration with clinical colleagues in basic and applied research. His major interest has been prosthetic heart valves, an interest nurtured by contact with (late) Dr. Victor Ferrans, and with Dr. Malcolm Silver and Dr. Frederick Schoen.

He trained in India (MBBS), at the Kasturba Medical College in Mysore (Manipal and Mangalore) and had his Post-Graduate training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Dr. Butany moved to Toronto in 1975 and started his pathology training at the University of Toronto (U of T), which he completed in 1979. Since then, he has worked at the Toronto General Hospital (now University Health Network) and the University of Toronto, starting as a Lecturer in 1980, with a break of one year when he was a Fellow at the NIH (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) at Bethesda, Maryland with (late) Dr. Victor J. Ferrans. During this time, he had the pleasure of working with/meeting a number of pathologists who were fellows there and Dr. William C. Roberts, then head of the Pathology branch. On his return from the NIH, Dr. Butany joined the Pathology Department of the Women's College Hospital and six months later started at the Toronto General Hospital as a cardiovascular pathologist. He has worked on several committees at the University, at the Toronto General Hospital, and in the Pathology Department.