Dr Subodh Verma is a cardiac surgeon-scientist and Professor at the University of Toronto. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery and a past recipient of the Howard Morgan Award for Distinguished Achievements in Cardiovascular Research and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal in Surgery. He is an appointee of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS) and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada. As of February 2019, Dr Verma has an h-index of 67, with nearly 18,000 citations in 385 publications.

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Dr Verma has co-authored two state-of-the-art NEJM reviews on mitral valve repair and bicuspid aortopathy. A meta-analysis led by him helped shape the recommendations of the American College of Cardiology and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) for best revascularization choice in individuals with diabetes. He continues to be an active contributor to several CCS guidelines and co-authored the 2018 Diabetes Canada guidelines and 2018 AATS consensus guidelines on bicuspid aortic valve-related aortopathy. Dr Verma has served on the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia since 2008.