Dr. Shelley Zieroth is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Manitoba. She is also director of the heart failure and heart transplant clinics and head of the medical heart failure program for Cardiac Sciences Manitoba.

Dr. Zieroth attended medical school at UM and went on to train in internal medicine and cardiology at the same center. She completed her postdoctoral clinical fellowship, specializing in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant, at Toronto General Hospital.

She is involved in several heart failure clinical trials as a PI, national lead or executive committee member. Her area of research examines the efficacy of new treatments including food-derived bioactives, in heart failure.

She is past president of the Canadian Heart Failure Society and on the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Primary Panels for both the heart failure and heart transplant guidelines.

She serves as co-chair of Canada’s largest annual heart failure meeting, HF Update and Scientific Planning Committee Chair for the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress hosted by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

Dr. Zieroth is actively engaged in social media and promotes #cardiotwitter for its rapid access to clinical trial data, publications, and free online access to medical education. It is through this engagement Dr. Zieroth has become recognized as a global supporter and sponsor of women in medicine and cardiology.

Her current passion is working with national and provincial patient advocacy groups and primary care to operationalize hub and spoke models of heart failure care.