Sonia Anand ’92

Dr. Anand is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at McMaster University, the Director of McMaster Population Genomics Program and a vascular medicine specialist. She holds both the new Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research, as well as the Eli Lily/May Cohen Chair in Women’s Health Research at McMaster. Her present research focuses upon the environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, women and cardiovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease.

In 1996, Dr. Anand received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Clinician Scientist Award Phase 1 followed by the Phase 2 Award which she held from 2003–2008. In 2004 Dr. Anand received a CIHR and HSFO ICE grant devoted to the study of sex/gender determinants of cardiovascular disease, called the CARdiovascular INvestigations in Gender (CARING Network). Dr. Anand is also the Principal Investigator of two large genetic association studies including the CIHR/HSFO funded EPiDREAM study of 22,000 people from 21 countries. Her work is widely published amongst academic and peer–evaluated journals and she teaches clinical epidemiology courses in methodology and cardiovascular disease at McMaster University.