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Mailing Address The Scarborough Hospital Toronto, CANADA #3302 3000 Lawrence E Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2L 2A8

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Research Interests Preventing premature heart disease in the South Asian community. Author of a book "South Asian Heart: preventing heart disease" (1995). Lectures and community involvement in Preventing Heart Disease, with emphasis on premature CAD and CAD in South Asians. Convenor of the First conference in North America on this subject at York University in Toronto in 1990 and the first South Asian Heart Health Fair. Created the field of Ethnicity and Heart Disease in Canada with lectures, writing and conferences. Also a pioneer in the field of chaos and complexity theory in medicine, and as a model for understanding multiculturalism and also CAD in South Asians. Author of two books on Chaos and complexity theory in medicine.

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Publications * 1) VS Rambihar, DG Jagdeo. Ethnocultural heart: Another challenge for an emerging diversity. Commentary: Can J Cardiology 1995; 11:441-2. 2) VS Rambihar. Jurassic Heart; From the heart to the edge of chaos.Commentary: Can J Cardiology 1993; 9:787-8. 3) VS Rambihar. CAd and South Asians. Letter. Can j Cardiol 1996; 12: 699. 4) VS Rambihar. Science, Evidence and the use of the word scientific. Letter. Lancet 2000; 355: 1730. 5) VS Rambihar. South Asian Heart: Preventing Heart DIsease. 1995. Vashna Toronto. (book). 6) VS Rambihar. Chaos 200: Making a new medidine. 1996 and 2000. Vashna Toronto (book). 7) VS Rambihar. A new chaos based medicine beyond 2000: the response to evidence. Vashna Toronto 1999. (book).

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