RV Cardiology Physicians

Dr. Ahooja completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto. She graduated medical school from the University of the West Indies and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Cardiovascular fellowship at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She was elected to Chief Medical Resident and served as Chief Fellow of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Wayne State University. She has received several awards including a Certificate of Merit from the American College of Physicians. She was also one of six physicians selected to serve on a national advisory committee of the American Association of Medical Colleges. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine with additional certifications in Adult Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology and Coronary CT angiography. Her practice includes general cardiology and non-invasive imaging. She sees patients in the Scarborough, Pickering and Ajax offices of Rouge Valley Cardiology.

Dr. Burstein competed medical school at the University of Toronto and completed his residency programs in internal medicine and cardiology in Toronto. He was the chief cardiology resident at the University Health Network in 2003. In 2005 he completed a one year interventional cardioglogy (angioplasty) fellowship at St. Michael's Hospital. He is a staff cardiologist at the Rouge Valley Health System-Centenary and Ajax sites. He has been an active member in the launch of the "code STEMI" initiative across Scarborough and Durham which takes patients with acute myocardial infarctions directly to the catheterization lab at the Centenary Hospital for a primary angioplasty . Dr. Burstein has a busy cardiology office practice seeing pateints in the Scarborough, Pickering, and Ajax offices of Rouge Valley Cardiology.

Dr. Dhingra completed his medical school at the University of Saskatchewan and completed his Internal Medicine and Critical Care residency at the University of Calgary. He completed his Cardiology Fellowship from the University of British Columbia. He has been an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He was also the director of the residency training program and Chief of Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital. In 2002 Dr. Dhingra along with his family relocated to Toronto to assume the position of Chief of Medicine of Rouge Valley Ajax Pickering. He is currently the Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Scarborough General Hospital. Dr. Dhingra has a particular interest in critical care cardiology and continuing medical education. He has been a member of the Rouge Valley Cardiology team since 2003 and provides patient care in all three office locations.

Dr Gladstone graduated from the University of Toronto and completed residency training, also in Toronto, in Internal medicine and Cardiology. Following this he completed sub-specialty training in interventional cardiology (angioplasty) at Toronto Western Hospital (UHN). He was on staff at Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospital until 2001. He was director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and the residency training program while at UHN. In 2001 he relocated to the Rouge Valley Health System-Centenary site, to start the interventional program. In November 2001 the ministry of health chose RVHS to become the province's first "strand-alone" angioplasty centre. His practice includes interventional cardiology and general cardiology. He sees patients in the Scarborough, Pickering and Ajax offices of Rouge Valley Cardiology.

Dr.Makanjee completed his medical undergraduate medical degree and Internal Medicine residency at the University of Natal in South Africa. He then worked as an internist in England and Northern Ireland before returning South Africa to complete his cardiology residency at Groote Schuur hospital, University of Cape Town, home of the world’s first heart transplant.

He completed a clinical and research Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship under Dr. George Klein, a world recognized expert in arrhythmia management at London, Ontario (2008-2010). He has received numerous awards including the EB Adams Prize (top ranked Internal Medicine undergraduate candidate), South African Institute of Race Relations scholarship (1991-1994) and the Discovery Foundation Academic scholarship (2008 -2010).

His major interest is in the ablation of atrial flutter, AV node reentrant tachycardia, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome as well as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. He is expert in biventricular pacing as well as regular pacemakers, single or dual-chamber ICDs and implantable loop recorders. His recent appointment at the Rouge Valley Health System is the part of the expansion of the arrhythmia program. His practice includes interventional electrophysiology and general cardiology. He is currently seeing and accepting up patients in the Scarborough, Pickering and Ajax offices of Rouge Valley Cardiology.

Dr. Swan graduated from Queens University and did his residency training in Toronto in internal medicine and cardiology. He then did postgraduate training at Emory University in Atlanta in cardiac ultrasound and returned to Canada to introduce 2-dimensional echocardiography in 1977. He has held an appointment at the University of Toronto in the division of cardiology since 1977 and has held an appointments at St. Michael's Hospital, Rouge Valley health System, Southlake Hospital, Toronto East General Hospital, North York General Hospital and the Barrie Royal Victoria Hospital in the division of cardiology. He was a founding member of the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario and was instrumental in getting one of the first non-University cath labs in Canada at Centenary Hospital in 1986. He has been active at the Ontario Medical Association as a member of the central tariff committee and has chaired a number of committees involving high technology in cardiology for the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Medical Association. He has been a leader in developing new digital technologies in his cardiac ultrasound lab which are now used at major institutions throughout the world to improve cardiac care for patients. He has been the team cardiologist for the NHL Oldtimers since 1977. He continues to perform diagnostic cardiac catheterization and noninvasive cardiac testing and deliver cardiac care to patients in the Scarborough, Pickering, Ajax and Collingwood offices.

Dr Tobe completed medical school in 1996 at McMaster university. She completed residency in internal medicine at the University of British Columbia in 2002 and adult cardiology at the University of Toronto 2005.

Dr. Yared is a non-invasive cardiologist at The Scarborough Hospital - General Campus. Before moving to Toronto, Kibar received his medical degree at McGill University and completed his training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in 2007. He subsequently completed an advanced Cardiac Imaging fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he acquired cutting-edge three-dimensional Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques. Dr. Yared has also led various research studies many of which have been published in leading medical journals. His primary clinical and research interests are in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and valvular heart disease. Kibar is currently developing the non-invasive cardiac laboratory to include stress echocardiography, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT at the Scarborough Hospital. He is currently seeing and accepting patients at the Scarborough, Pickering and Ajax sites of Rouge Valley Cardiology.

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