BIO:

General and Invasive Cardiology/Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiologist:

Dr. Amir Janmohamed completed his undergraduate degree from McMaster University and his medical degree from the Aga Khan University.  After completing his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at University of Toronto he went on to a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology with Dr. Paul Dorian at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.  He subsequently did a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Royal Alexandria Hospital in Edmonton.  His clinical practice spans the area of general and invasive cardiology as well as interventional cardiac electrophysiology.

Dr. Janmohamed was instrumental in the initial set up of the invasive cardiac catheterization laboratory at Peterborough Regional Health Center in Peterborough Ontario.  Subsequently he was recruited to Scarborough in 2003 to aid in the expansion of the cardiac catheterization laboratory as well as establish an invasive cardiac electrophysiology program for the region.  He established an advanced device implantation program and follow-up clinic to the Scarborough and Durham regions.  With his leadership defibrillators and advanced cardiac resynchronization pacemaker implantation were undertaken in Scarborough.  Dr Janmohamed started an invasive cardiac electrophysiology laboratory for the management of arrhythmias and curing them with ablations.

He is the director of the Arrhythmia Services Program at the Scarborough Health Network, a position he has held since the inception of the program. This is a unique program that has undertaken some procedures as the first ones in Ontario or Canada. He introduced a regional patient database to permit patients from Scarborough and Durham to be followed on a central regional database. Dr. Janmohamed practices out of the Centenary campus of the SHN and the Lakeridge Health Ajax Pickering hospitals. He sees his outpatients at the Heart Health Institute offices in Scarborough and Ajax. He participates in multiple research trials and has led many as a local principal investigator.

Dr. Janmohamed was integrally involved in the merger of the Rouge Valley Health System to The Scarborough Hospital to form the Scarborough Health Network. He serves on various voluntary boards and has held many leadership positions, including being the President of the Medical Staff of both the Rouge Valley Health System as well as the Scarborough Health Network. He helped plan and implement the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology program at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi Kenya. He has been an external program reviewer for other international programs and institutions.