Our Team
The team members at Cardiac eHealth are made up of experienced and dedicated individuals from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds. We take pride in the diversity of our staff, with each member contributing their unique skills to the projects we are working on. Meet them below.
Dr. Rob Nolan
Director, Cardiac eHealth
Dr. Nolan is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Behavioural Cardiology Research Unit at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. He received his MA in Psychology from the New School for Social Research in New York, and his PhD from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship on cardiovascular reactivity to stress with the Departments of Psychology and Cardiology at the Ottawa Hospital (General Site), in Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Nolan has been at the University Health Network in Toronto since 1999. He holds appointments as Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute, and as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto.
His clinical research includes cognitive-behavioural influences on heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity with the use of biofeedback. More recently, his research has concentrated on an evidence-based protocol of automated digital counselling to promote health, quality of life, and social support for individuals at elevated risk for cardiovascular disease, or who are diagnosed with chronic heart failure, hypertension, or chronic kidney disease.
Lab Alumni
Research Coordinators
Julia Wong
Jelena Surikova
Kelly Min
Adriana Mechetiuc
Rhoda Ortiz
Susan Barry-Bianchi
Arooj Khan
Research Assistants
Grace Yang
Nicolette Stogios
Jackie Bermudez
Miguel Rivera
Independent Research
Shreya Jha
Pavan Gill
Samir Durrani
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Rika Tanaka (Clinical)
Trevor Hart (Clinical)
Adrienne Kovacs (Clinical)
Ada Payne
PhD Students
Sophie Macrodimitris
Kim Corace
Sam Liu
Lephuong Ong
MSc Students
Rachel Peiris
Fatima Syed
Hazel Lynn, MD
Bhagwanpreet Kaur
Kim Tremblay
Clinical Students
Debra Rotondi-Trevisan
Kaley Roosen
Lisa Vitesse
Student Volunteers
Grace Armstrong
Jiesi Zhang
Elma Chowdhury
Kevin Xiao
Elaine Liu
Cristy Liang
Andrea Ng
Mahtab Asadabadi, MD
Saadat Torabian, MD
Nazia Siddiqui
Arian Ravaei, MD
Firass Georgie, MD
Tiadora Mechetiuc
Lazar Joksimovic
Jessica Vasanthan
Thushara Vigneswaran
Nadia Warsi
Christine Bae
Nikolai Slepov
Rachel Lin
Jack Guan
Sonja Zdjelaric
Aroon Savaji
Carol Yip
Michael Tung
Ryan Chiu
Carly Spragg
Arnie Raima
Kevin Yu
Cathy Lu
Alan Lee
Fraser Amos
Lucas Cohen
Liban Ahmed
Marc Shenouda
Mehrnaz Samet
Arnie Raima