Greg Hirsch

Greg Hirsch, MD Nova Scotia Health Authority

Principal Investigator:

2019 Knowledge Translation Grant — Establishing Shared Decision Making Among Vulnerable Patients Referred for Cardiac Surgery, a Maritime-Wide Initiative (KT2019-07)

2015 Implementation Grant — Cardiac Surgery among the Frail and Elderly Towards Optimal Decision Making (FRA 2015-B-22)

Dr. Hirsch is a Professor of Surgery and Director of Research in the Department of Surgery at Dalhousie University. He is also a staff surgeon at Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Hirsch obtained his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He subsequently completed his residency training in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery from Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Research Fellowship in pathology from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hirsch’s clinical research interests include outcomes assessment research for frail patients undergoing surgery and mechanisms that lead to donor organ rejections.