Nahid Azad

Nahid Azad, a graduate of University of Ottawa, is an internist and geriatric medicine specialist. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine and her career path as clinical researcher, educator, and administrator is about gender health and equity issues.

Her research focus is on gender differences in cardiovascular disease, dementia, and heart failure. Her research funding has been primarily from the Ontario Women's Health Council.  She has been a national advisory and editorial member to the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care Strategic Planning on Women's Health Equity; Sex and Gender Equity; and Equity for seniors. She is a co-investigator of the Provincial Health Report Card on Gender and Equity for seniors - quality indicators for ischemic heart disease and heart failure.  

She has been an Invited Speaker at many national and international conferences in Gender Medicine and, in recognition of her work in teaching gender and health and focusing her research on the issues related to older women's health, equity and sex differences, Dr. Azad has received the following awards: 2007 AFMC May Cohen Gender Equity Award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada; the Women's Health Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Ottawa in 2004 and the Margaret Owen research award in 2005 from the Federation of Medical Women of Canada.  

She is the site-coordinator at the University of Ottawa, for a Provincial Collaborative Curriculum project, and is leading integration of gender and health into the new undergraduate medical education. She is the national chair of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada committee on Equity, Diversity and Gender.