Senior Core Scientist (Full Status) ICES Central Program Lead Cardiovascular Research Program
Biography
Dr. Douglas Lee is a staff cardiologist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre of the University Health Network, the Ted Rogers Chair in Heart Function Outcomes, and a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the cardiovascular program lead at ICES. He obtained his MD and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Toronto. He then completed a PhD in the section of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study.
PhD, Health Policy and Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
FRCPC, Cardiology, University of Toronto
MD, University of Toronto
Cardiovascular disorders
Diagnostic testing/imaging
Healthcare quality
Outcomes research
Health technology assessment
Professor, Medicine, University of Toronto
Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute
Cardiologist, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and University Health Network
Ted Rogers Chair in Heart Functions Outcomes, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
ICES Grants
Grant
2026 - 2029
SOdium gLucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) to PreVEnt Heart Failure (SOLVE-HF)
Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Odutayo A
Co-Investigators
Vaduganathan M, Abdel-Qadir H, Pinto A, Batt S, Vardeny O, Biering-Sorensen T, Ross H, Lee D, Solomon S
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$1,315,801
Grant
2026 - 2029
Long-term temporal trends and projections of stroke incidence, prevalence, and outcomes in Ontario, Canada until 2050 (StrOke2050)
Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Joundi R
Co-Investigators
Austin P, Fleet J, Kapral M, Lee D, Pechlivanoglou P, Sharma M, Smith E, Vyas M, Yu A
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$229,500
Grant
2026 - 2028
Long-term temporal trends and projections of stroke incidence, prevalence, and outcomes in Ontario, Canada until 2050 (StrOke2050)
Granting Agency
AHSC AFP Innovation Fund
Principal Investigators
Joundi R
Co-Investigators
Yu A, Austin P, Fang J, Pechlivanoglou P, Moskalewicz A, Fleet J, Vyas M, Smith E, Sharma M, Lee D
Grant Type
Innovation Fund
Grant Amount
$195,339
Grant
2025 - 2029
Examining the capacity of an opinion leader to alter emergency physician practice: Initiating oral anticoagulation for patients with atrial fibrillation
Granting Agency
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Principal Investigators
Atzema C
Co-Investigators
Abdel-Qadir H, Austin P, Cox J, Dainty K, Ivers N, Jackevicius C, Lee D, Redelmeier D, Savage D, Taljaard M
Grant Type
Operating
Grant Amount
$358,434
Grant
2024 - 2027
Predicting readmission outcomes using biostatistical evaluation and machine learning (PROBE ML)
Granting Agency
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Principal Investigators
Lee DS
Grant Type
Operating Grant
Grant Amount
$276,037
Grant
2024 - 2027
SOdium gLucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) to PreVEnt Heart Failure (SOLVE-HF): A pilot RCT
Granting Agency
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Principal Investigators
Odutayo A
Co-Investigators
Vaduganathan M, Abdel-Qadir H, Ross H, Lee DS, Solomon S
Grant Type
Operating Grant
Grant Amount
$249,450
Grant
2024 - 2026
Sunnybrook emergency care for vulnerable patients: Rising to meet evolving health care system challenge
Granting Agency
AHSC AFP Innovation Fund
Principal Investigators
McNaughton C
Co-Investigators
Coburn N, Yu A, Austin P, Lee D, Deb S, Cheng I, Verma A, Hall J, Costello L
Grant Type
Innovation Fund
Grant Amount
$148,862
Grant
2023 - 2025
Understanding the heightened amputation risk among people experiencing homelessness: A population-based cohort study
Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
de Mestral C
Co-Investigators
Albalawi Z, Austin PC, Blanchette V, Campbell D, Hwang S, R Kayssi A, Lee DS, Richard L
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$145,351
Grant
2022 - 2023
Virtual Innovation for Stroke Investigation and Treatment (VISIT)
Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Yu AYX
Co-Investigators
Austin PC, Kapral M, Vyas M, Lee DS, Khan N, Lindsay P, Sharp S
Grant Type
Catalyst
Grant Amount
$100,000
Grant
2021 - 2024
Incidence, outcomes and left atrial size in immigrants with atrial fibrillation in Ontario, Canada
Heart and Stroke Foundation Ontario Mid-Career Investigator Award
2016 – 2020: Awarded to Dr. Douglas Lee for Program of Research on Outcomes, Treatment, and Evaluation of Care in the Spectrum of HF (PROTECT-HF).
Awards & Recognition
05/11/2014
Robert E. Beamish Award
2014: Awarded to Dr. Doug Lee by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. This honour is given to the lead author of a research article published in The Canadian Journal of Cardiology within the past three years that is judged to have the greatest potential impact in cardiovascular medicine.