Dr. Tirone David Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Tiron David has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Society of Cardiovascular and EndoVascular Surgery (ESCVS).

Dr. David, who holds the Melanie Munk Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at UHN’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and serves as a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto, received the accolade at the 72nd Congress of the ESCVS in Istanbul, Turkey.

Dr. David delivered the “Rene Leriche Lecture” at the Congress. The lecture was entitled, “The imperative of innovation in cardiac surgery.”

Throughout a career spanning more than four decades, Dr. David has built a sterling global reputation as a cardiovascular surgeon, researcher and educator, and has pioneered numerous operative procedures to treat patients with heart valve disease and other challenges.

Congratulations to Dr. David on this achievement, his lifetime of service and all he has done for UHN, our patients, and health care in Canada.