Our adult hospital partner, University Health Network, has
launched a new podcast series called “Behind
the Breakthrough” which explores the pursuit of medical discovery by
speaking with those doing the discovering.
Episode one features our scientific lead, Dr.
Heather Ross, who is guiding the team that fulfilling our promise of reducing
rehospitalizations for heart failure by 50% by the middle of next decade.
In this wide-ranging interview, the Canadian cardiology
leader explores the problem of heart failure, the partnership between doctor
and patient, and the early days of artificial intelligence where machine
learning algorithms look for connections amid amounts of data so vast they far
exceed the human mind.
“We are in a different era now,” Dr. Ross says. “We have enormous
data and information on patients that we have never had before. We now have the
capacity to store data in ways that we didn’t. And now have the analytics to
ask the questions. It’s an evolution and transformation in how we look at
individuals with disease.”
Behind
the Breakthrough is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Podbean.