Sonia Anand MD

PROFILE: Dr. Anand is an Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University. Her present research focuses upon determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, women, and the evaluation of antithrombotic therapies used in the secondary prevention of vascular events.

Past education includes an undergraduate degree in Life Sciences from Queen’s University in 1989, a Doctor of Medicine from McMaster in 1992, Internal Medicine Training at McMaster and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1996. She further received her Masters in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster in 1996 and Ph.D. in Health Research Methodology at McMaster in 2002. She completed a Heart and Stroke of Canada Research Fellowship in 1998, and in 2001 completed a Vascular Medicine Fellowship at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women's Hospital.

In 1996, Dr. Anand received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Clinician Scientist Award Phase 1 and currently holds the Phase 2 Award. In 1999, she received the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Young Investigator Award and in 2001 she was the recipient of the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Young Investigator Award. Most recently, Dr. Anand was awarded to Eli Lily May Cohen Women’s Health Research at McMaster. Recently, Dr. Anand received an CIHR and HSFO ICE grant devoted to the study of sex/gender and ethnic determinants of cardiovascular disease, called the CARdiovascular INvestigations in Gender (CARING Network).

Her work is widely published amongst academic and peer-evaluated journals and she teaches clinical epidemiology courses in methodology and cardiovascular disease at McMaster University.


Keywords: Aboriginal, Blood vessels, Blood, coagulation, Clinical trials, Environment, Epidemiology, Ethnic studies, Gender studies, Genetics

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