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Dr. Salim Yusuf is a professor of medicine and director of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also vice president of research and chief scientific officer at Hamilton Health Sciences hospitals in Ontario.

Dr. Yusuf holds a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Research Chair, and served as a senior scientist for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). His awards include the Lifetime Research Achievement Award from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the 2001 Prix Galien Canada Research Award, the Lucian Award for Cardiovascular Research 2002, and the Paul Wood Silver Medal of the British Cardiac Society 2003. He was a finalist for the CIHR Michael Smith Prize in Health Research in 2005, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 2005. In 2008, he received both the Gold Medal from the European Society of Cardiology, and the Clinical Research Prize from the American Heart Association. He has led over 20 major trials and several of them have changed medical practice. He has published over 600 articles, and his research collaboration involves 79 countries in all the inhabited continents of the world.