Warren Cantor

Dr. Cantor received his medical degree at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario in 1991. He then completed his postgraduate internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of Toronto. After a clinical fellowship in interventional cardiology, he received a grant from the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada to pursue a two-year research fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina. He completed the fellowship and worked as Staff Interventional Cardiologist and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto from 2000 to 2005. He is currently a Staff Interventional Cardiologist at the Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research interests include advances in percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, and antithrombotic therapy for acute coronary syndromes. He is the principal investigator for TRANSFER-AMI, a large CIHR-funded multicentre trial evaluating the role of routine early PCI after thrombolysis for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.