Veena Guru

Veena Guru is presently enrolled as a PhD student in the Clinical Epidemiology program of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She has conducted her research at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre under the supervision of  Drs. Jack Tu and Stephen Fremes.

Her research interests surround both the clinical and epidemiological aspects of health services research in cardiac surgery. She is a general surgeon and part of the University of Toronto's Surgeon Scientist Program. Her eventual ambition is to be a surgeon scientist in the field of general surgery. She was awarded a 4-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research salary fellowship award and two grants-in-aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario to complete her PhD thesis work.  

Key Research Interests:  

• How quality of care relates to outcomes for cardiac surgery? Her PhD thesis is based on this topic and she has been involved in improving the yearly Ontario cardiac surgery report card.
• How gender relates to outcomes in cardiac surgery
• The use of N-acetylcysteine in prevention of renal insufficiency following cardiac surgery.