Dr. Varinder Kaur Randhawa is completing her critical care fellowship training at the University of Toronto, having completed MD-PhD, internal medicine, core cardiology, heart failure-transplant cardiology and post-doctoral clinical, quality improvement and translational research training at the University of Toronto, Western University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She currently serves as the International Society Heart Lung Transplant (ISHLT) Cardiogenic Shock Task Force Section Co-Chair on Systems of Care, the Canadian Journal of Cardiology Associate Editor for Critical Care Cardiology, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Trainee Committee Chair, and a member of various groups including the Guidelines Knowledge Translation Working Group, the CANCARE Society, the Canadian Heart Failure Society, the Canadian Cardiac Transplant Network, and the Canadian Society for Echocardiography. She has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and 117 academic talks or workshops focused cardiovascular critical care healthcare disparities, device support and digital health tools, and shock-resuscitation sciences outcomes at local, national and international conferences. She has held the Canadian Institutes Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral and Kostuk Research Awards and a CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant on sex and gender diversity amongst other awards. She is a mixed media artist, an avid soccer fan, and a doting aunt to her niece Victoria. Her academic journey thus far positions her uniquely at the intersection of cardiovascular medicine and critical care for the care and research of patients with complex life-threatening cardiovascular and critical care illnesses. She aspires to be an academic cardiac-intensivist and clinician-researcher in this space with a focus on evaluating health services outcomes and disparities with an equity diversity and inclusion (EDI) lens.

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