Dr. Barry Rubin
BSc, MD CM, PhD, FACS, FRCSC

Dr. Barry Rubin is Medical Director of the Peter Munk Cardiac Center and Head of the Division of Vascular Surgery at University Health Network. He completed his undergraduate and medical education at McGill, and then obtained a PhD in Experimental Medicine and trained in General and Vascular Surgery at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Rubin leads a tertiary/quaternary care practice in vascular surgery and manages patients with thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid stenosis and impaired lower extremity circulation.

Dr. Rubin's basic science work focuses on the way the heart responds to injury and the regulation of the immune response to infection, and has been widely published in high impact journals. He has received 15 year of continuous funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is the only vascular surgeon outside of the United States to receive a career development award from the Institute for Accelerated Vascular Research, San Francisco.

Dr. Rubin is the Chair and CEO of the MSH UHN Academic Medical Organization, and has been re-elected to this position 3 times by his peers. This organization manages the allocation of teaching, research, innovation, recruitment and clinical repair funds from the Ministry of Health to 750 physicians at UHN and Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Rubin is also the elected representative of 4,000 academic physicians in Ontario on the provincial Academic Medicine Steering Committee, the mandate of which is to develop policy that supports the ability of physicians to advance the goals of academic medicine.

Married to Penny Rubin in 1990. Together, they have three children; Chelsea (18), Blake (15) and Shelby (12).

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