The
Vision.
The vision of the Chahal Cardiovascular Centre (C³) is to improve regional access to high quality cardiovascular and advanced heart failure care, through dedication, compassion, and a life-long commitment of integrity and excellence in serving the community.
IMPROVING REGIONAL ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY
CARDIOVASCULAR CARE.
The
Foundation.
The Centre is an organization, leading by example, and inspiring the best out of one another. The vision behind the Chahal Cardiovascular Centre is built upon the strong fundamental character of its founder. This character can be summed up in two words, borrowed from renowned author Brené Brown: Daring Greatly. Throughout the last decade, Dr. Chahal has lived a life of Daring Greatly, by implementing a growth mindset and a collaborative approach in up-leveling the standards of cardiovascular care. She has done this by adhering to her integrity and strong moral compass, while not playing small or being afraid of challenging the status quo or in breaking glass ceilings that simply needed to be broken.
BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF
COURAGE, RESILIENCE, & RESPECT.
The C³ Definition of Success:
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better;
To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded…
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About the
Founder
Mangeet Chahal, MD, FRCPC, FCCS, FACC
Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program: Chahal Cardiovascular Centre
She has been in practice for over ten years, and most recently served as the Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program, at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. At The Cleveland Clinic, she practiced alongside innovative colleagues, providing leadership in developing regional systems of care for improving access to advanced heart failure therapies. She has now taken this knowledge and skillset and returned home to Canada, to fulfill her long-term goal of implementing a systemic model of care of providing regional access to high quality cardiovascular and advanced heart care in her local community, while working alongside the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation team at the Toronto General Hospital.
About the
Team
Vivek Rao, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAHA
Surgical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program: Chahal Cardiovascular Centre
Dr. Vivek Rao, is the Surgical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support program, Interim Surgical Director of Cardiac Transplantation, and former Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Rao completed his medical and surgical training at the University of Toronto, in addition to fellowship training at New York Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in the United States. He is a Senior Scientist in the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at the Toronto General Research Institute, and performs a wide variety of cardiac surgical procedures. He is most notably known as a world-renowned expert in Heart Failure Surgery, and is working collaboratively, as the Surgical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure program at the Chahal Cardiovascular Centre, to provide excellence of care and improved access for Advanced Heart Failure therapies within the community.
