Lisa Marie Mielniczuk BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Lisa Mielniczuk graduated medical school from McMaster University in 1998 and then completed internal medicine training at Queen's University in Kingston and a cardiology residency at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Following her training, Dr. Mielniczuk pursed a fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and a Masters of Science Degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Currently Dr. Mielniczuk is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a cardiologist at the Ottawa Heart Institute. In addition, Dr. Mielniczuk is the Director of the Heart Failure Program and Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation Program as well as Medical Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic.

Dr. Mielniczuk's research interests include clinical outcomes related to heart failure and pulmonary hypertension and the evaluation of myocardial energetics in right heart failure. She currently holds clinical and basic science grants from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada as well as the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology evaluating right ventricular metabolism in pulmonary hypertension. She is also co-investigator of the Canadian Institute of Health Research IMAGE HEART FAILURE TEAM GRANT and co-investigator on studies evaluating cardiac energetics using C-11-acetate in patients with heart failure and sleep apnea being randomized to CPAP vs. standard therapy. She has over 27 peer reviewed publications and 22 abstracts presented at scientific meetings.