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HOME / ANTARCTICA '06
Mr. Prince, while vacationing in Brazil, had a massive heart attack in January 2007. He was treated and stabilized in Brazil and came home. Upon arriving in Toronto, he was clearly still critically ill. He was seen in the Heart Function Clinic on March 21st, 2007, and admitted straight into the intensive care unit. David underwent mechanical circulatory support with a HeartMate II device on March 28th, and was discharged home just three weeks later. The device allowed him to recuperate from his severe illness and made him stronger for his transplant. A donor heart became available and David underwent successful transplant on May 11th. He was discharged home 12 days later in excellent condition. Thanks to generous donor support of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program at Toronto General Hospital, David is alive and well – and already working on his golf game! Initiatives such as Antarctica 2006: Live Life – Test Your Limits and donor support of the Heart Failure, Ventricular Assist Device, and Heart Transplant Programs as well as new therapies such as Cardiac Regenerative Medicine, are what provide the crucial funding that enable us to strive toward new and cutting-edge Replacement Therapies for Advanced Heart Failure. Donor support of the Antarctica 2006: Live Life – Test Your Limits adventure was phenomenal. Through Antarctica 2006, we generated net proceeds of $1,000,000, and we are building on that with Nepal 2008”.
The Team
Mr. Delaney serves on the Board of Directors of Dynatec Corporation (Chairman), The Westaim Corporation (Chairman), Royal Utilities Income Fund (Chairman), Encana, and OPTI Canada.
Dr. Murphy received her medical degree from Memorial University in Newfoundland. She completed postgraduate training in Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto in 1989. She completed a second specialty-training program in Critical Care Medicine in 1991 at McMaster University in Hamilton. She then completed subspecialty training in Cardiac Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography at Sunnybrook Health Science Center in Toronto. Dr. Murphy is recognised nationally for her expertise in Cardiac Anesthesia and Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. She is currently the National Chair of the Perioperative Echocardiography Group of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society and an Executive Member of the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society. She is a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress. Dr. Murphy was a Royal College Examiner in Anesthesia from 1999-2003. Dr. Murphy received the Dr Gerald Edelist Teaching Award (highest honor for postgraduate teaching in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto) in 2006 recognizing her contributions to postgraduate teaching at the University of Toronto. Dr. Murphy has competed in athletics most of her life. She was the 400 meter champion for Newfoundland in 1977 and competed in the Canadian Summer Games the same year. She has completed 7 marathons, with a personal best of 3:34 in Boston in 1999. She is an avid runner, cyclist and skier. Her newest passions are ice and mountain climbing!
Dr. Ross received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and completed her Cardiology Training at Dalhousie University. She completed her post-doctoral Fellowship in Cardiac Transplantation at Stanford University, California, and earned her Masters Degree in Bioethics from the University of Toronto in 2002. Dr. Ross is the founder and past-chair of The Canadian Cardiac Transplant Group. She is currently the Past President of the Canadian Society of Transplantation, an executive member of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and previous executive member of the Board of Directors for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. She is the author of numerous publications in Heart Failure and Transplantation and is the recipient of many teaching awards, including the Department of Medicine's Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching - Anderson Teaching Award for Individual Excellence, The Dr. E.D. Wigle Cardiology Teaching Award, and The Young Attending Teacher Award, Department of Medicine, TGH & UofT.
Quick Facts: Antarctica Antarctica covers an area of 14,000,000 Sq. Km, or 1/10th of the land surface of the planet. It is the fifth largest land mass. Contrary to the widely held belief that the continent is a low elevation, flat land mass, consider that it is the highest overall continent with a mean altitude of 2,050 meters above sea level It is considered the world's coldest desert and receives very little precipitation. In the "dry valleys" some scientist believe that no rain has fallen in 2 million years
The Cold: From 10°C in summer to -89.6°C or -128.6°F (the lowest air temp ever recorded.) In the winter extreme, metal can stick to skin, kerosene turns to jelly and fillings can fall out of teeth The Wind: The cold of the interior, the domed shape of the continent and intense low pressure systems around the coast combine to create Antarctica's powerful katabatic winds, some of the strongest winds on earth, often exceeding hurricane force (120 km/h) for several days at a time. Maximum gusts of more than 250 km/h have been recorded The Real Estate:
We Knew It Had To Be Somewhere: 90% of the world's ice (29 million cubic km) and 60-70% of its fresh water is in the Antarctic ice cap National Geographic's Journey to Antarctica
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Ian W. Delaney has served as Executive Chairman, Sherritt International Corporation since 1995. He previously held the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Viridian Inc. (formerly Sherritt Inc.) from 1990.
Dr. Patricia Murphy is the Clinical Director of Cardiac Anesthesia and the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Surgery Business Unit at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. She is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto. 
Dr. Heather Ross, MD, MHSC, FRCP(C) is the Reuben and Florence Fenwick Family Professor in the Medical Management of Heart Failure, the Medical Director of the Cardiac Transplant Program and Deputy Director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Program at University Health Network (UHN), a Member of the Clinical Studies Resource Centre in the Division of Clinical Investigation & Human Physiology, Toronto General Research Institute at UHN, and an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiology and Transplant, at the University of Toronto.
Dale Shippam, Heart Transplant Recipient
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