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Dr. Tofy Mussivand, FRSC, is Professor of Surgery and Engineering and Chair of the Medical Devices Centre of the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Mussivand received his undergraduate education and training in engineering and management.Following many successful years in senior positions in government, a crown corporation, and the private sector, Dr. Mussivand went on to receive his doctorates in Medical Engineering and Medical Sciences at the University of Akron and North Eastern Ohio University College of Medicine.Thereafter, Dr. Mussivand joined the internationally acclaimed Cleveland Clinic Hospital and Research Foundation where he gained invaluable knowledge and experience in the development of medical devices, artificial hearts, and cardiac care medicine.
In 1989, armed with medical, engineering, and management expertise, Dr. Mussivand was invited to return to Canada to continue his pioneering work in the field of medical devices.Currently, he is the Director of the Cardiovascular Devices Division of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.The Division has widespread foci encompassing patient care (perfusion, clinical artificial hearts, bridge-to-heart transplantation and minimally invasive cardiac surgery devices); research and development (medical devices, artificial hearts, remote power transfer and monitoring, biofluid dynamics and clinical engineering); telemedicine; and education and training (patient simulation, graduate students, residents and fellows).
Dr. Mussivand has achieved both national and global recognition in medical sciences and medical engineering, especially in the medical devices field.His breakthroughs have resulted in the establishment of scientific eminence for Canada in the fields of artificial hearts, remote power transfer, telemedicine, and medical devices in general.
Dr. Mussivand holds academic appointments as Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of Engineering, School of Information Technology and Engineering, at the University of Ottawa as well as Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, at Carleton University.Additional academic responsibilities include teaching courses at the aforementioned universities, a collaborative student exchange program with several international universities, as well as the supervision of graduate students, residents and post-doctoral fellows (over 200).In addition, he serves as the Chair of Medical Devices and Biomedical Engineering, which was recently established at the University of Ottawa.He has published over 250 papers, books and technical articles and is an editorial board member on several international medical and engineering journals.
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