Seema Mital, Canada

Dr. Seema Mital is a Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and Head of Cardiovascular Research at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute. She is the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada / Robert M Freedom Chair of Cardiovascular Science, and the Scientific Co-Lead of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research.

Mital leads the Cardiac Precision Medicine Program at SickKids Hospital that leverages whole genome sequencing, pharmacogenomics and iPS cells to model childhood disease and discover and implement personalized therapies in heart failure and transplantation. She launched and leads the multi-center Heart Centre Biobank and Solid Organ Transplant Biobank at SickKids.

Mital is the Principal Investigator of the CIHR-funded INSERT-HCM multi-centre project aimed at implementing digital health technology, the NIH-funded Pediatric Heart Network for clinical trials, and leads the international ERAPerMed funded PROCEED network for Personalized Genomics in congenital heart disease. She was lead of the Canadian National Transplantation Research Network’s POSITIVE study for personalized medicine in solid organ transplant recipients.