‘We will do better for women’s hearts,’ says new research chair at Manitoba hospital
Dr. Shelley Zieroth has been appointed as a new clinical research chair at St. Boniface Hospital in Manitoba to focus on women's heart health. The initiative aims to address the historical gender gap in cardiovascular research and improve clinical outcomes for women.
Why it matters
Addressing gender disparities in medical research is critical for developing more effective, evidence-based treatments for women's cardiovascular diseases.
A new clinical research chair will help further women’s heart health care in Manitoba, the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation announced Monday.
Dr. Shelley Zieroth will serve as the Heart & Stroke, St. Boniface Hospital Foundation, and Research Manitoba clinical research chair in women’s heart health.
“Her leadership will help accelerate discoveries that improve cardiac outcomes for women and have a lasting impact – not only here in Manitoba, but beyond,” Karen Fowler, president and CEO at the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation, told reporters.
She described Zieroth as “a champion for women’s heart care.” The doctor’s research focus includes heart failure and cardio-kidney-metabolic interactions, according to the hospital foundation.
The doctor has worked at the St. Boniface Hospital since 2006, Zieroth said at an event celebrating her new position.
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