Dr. Sonia AnandDr. Sonia Anand is an Associate Professor of Medicine and May Cohen Eli-Lily Chair in Women's Health Research at McMaster University in Hamilton. A teacher of clinical trials methodology and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, her own research focuses on the determinants of vascular disease (obesity and metabolic syndrome) in populations of varying ancestral origin, and the evaluation of antithrombotic therapies used in the secondary prevention of vascular events.
After completing her Doctor of Medicine at McMaster in 1992, Dr. Anand took a specialty in Internal Medicine, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1996. In 2000-2001, she pursued a Fellowship in Vascular Medicine at Harvard University and the next year earned her Ph.D. in Health Research Methodology from McMaster.
Dr. Anand's current research activities include a CIHR-funded investigation of nutrition and health among aboriginal peoples and an international study investigating genetic and environmental determinants of obesity and diabetes. She is a member of the Scientific Review Committee of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the CIHR Population Health Committee. Widely published herself, Dr. Anand is a section editor of Vascular Viewpoint in the journal Vascular Medicine, and associate editor of American College of Physicians Journal Club.
She has received numerous awards including the Cardiovascular Society Young Investigators Award, and currently she holds a CIHR Clinician Scientist Phase 2 Award