Dr Sherryn Rambihar with her father Dr Vivian Rambihar
Guyanese-Canadian Sherryn Rambihar recently completed her medical studies and training in cardiology earning a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, FRCPC. She is now one of the newest additions to Canada’s prestigious list of cardiologists. She follows in the footsteps of her illustrious father, Toronto’s internationally recognized cardiologist Dr Vivian Rambihar, a graduate of Georgetown’s prestigious Queens College.
Dr. Rambihar completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto with Highest Distinction and with the prize for the highest average for a student proceeding to a professional school. She then moved on to the University of Western Ontario where she completed three years of training in Internal Medicine, and then three years of training in Cardiology at McMaster University.
Dr. Rambihar is currently engaged in sub-specialist advanced training in the field of Echocardiography at Mt Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She hopes to combine teaching and practicing medicine.
Dr. Rambihar has excelled throughout her academic career, continuing in Canada a trend established by her father’s relatives in Guyana. She received an academic admission scholarship to Hagergal College where she earned many academic and extracurricular prizes and continued to display her academic excellence in university, medical school and in specialist training earning accolades all the way.
She has excelled in research, receiving the Gold Medal at the McMaster University Annual Resident Research Day in Medicine this year.
Dr Rambihar made several presentations at international meetings including the Caribbean Cardiac Society Conference in Barbados and the First International Congress on Heart Disease and Stroke in Women, in Victoria, British Columbia.
Additionally, Dr Rambihar has been involved in Canadian Guyanese community health since childhood. She also worked alongside her father with health promotion in the South Asian community, and is co-author with him, of many publications, including a landmark Editorial in the American Heart Journal, “Race, ethnicity and heart disease: a challenge for Cardiology for the 21st century.”
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