Prof. Dominique Shum-Tim

Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1990-1994 M.Sc., Experimental Surgery, McGill University, Canada

1984-1988 M.D., Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada

Publications (Selected)

1. Lee, O., Derish, D., & Shum-Tim, D. (2025). Smaller Bioprosthetic Valves May Be Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes and Reduced Freedom from Reoperation in sAVR. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 12(7), 277.
2. Derish, D., Bassawon, R., Levett, J. Y., Hatzakorzian, R., & Shum-Tim, D. (2025). Vascular Auto-Tamponade of an Infected (Mycotic) Aneurysm of the Aortic Arch and Innominate Artery. Hearts, 6(2), 13.
3. Ghandour, A., Langlois, H., Lavigne, G., Duvauchelle, F. A., Boudrias, L. É., Normand, A., ... & Shum-Tim, D. (2025, January). Impact of Nurse Practitioners on Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy at Discharge on Patients with Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. In The Heart Surgery Forum (Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. E019-E025).
4. Laldin, S., Shum-Tim, C., Prakash, S., & Shum-Tim, D. (2025). Comparing innovative artificial intelligence algorithms to assess echocardiographic videos for clinical modeling. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
5. Islam, P., Abosalha, A., Schaly, S., Boyajian, J. L., Santos, M., Makhlouf, S., ... & Prakash, S. (2024). Baculovirus Expressing Tumor Growth Factor-β1 (TGFβ1) Nanoshuttle Augments Therapeutic Effects for Vascular Wound Healing: Design and In Vitro Analysis. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 7(11), 3419-3428.
6. Torbati, S., Daneshmehr, A., Pouraliakbar, H., Asgharian, M., Ahmadi Tafti, S. H., Shum-Tim, D., & Heidari, A. (2024). Personalized evaluation of the passive myocardium in ischemic cardiomyopathy via computational modeling using Bayesian optimization. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 23(5), 1591-1606.
7. Islam, P., Schaly, S., Abosalha, A. K., Boyajian, J., Thareja, R., Ahmad, W., ... & Prakash, S. (2024). Nanotechnology in development of next generation of stent and related medical devices: Current and future aspects. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, 16(2), e1941.
8. Schaly, S., Islam, P., Boyajian, J. L., Thareja, R., Abosalha, A., Arora, K., ... & Prakash, S. (2023). Controlled and customizable baculovirus NOS3 gene delivery using PVA-based hydrogel systems. Plos one, 18(9), e0290902.
9. Ghandour, A., Bassawon, R., Langlois, H., Ergina, P. L., & Shum‐Tim, D. (2022). Migration despite stabilization of an embolized transcatheter heart valve: A word of caution. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 37(12), 5588-5590.
10. Lomis, N., Westfall, S., Shum-Tim, D., & Prakash, S. (2021). Synthesis and characterization of peptide conjugated human serum albumin nanoparticles for targeted cardiac uptake and drug delivery. PLoS One, 16(9), e0254305.
11. Lomis, N., Sarfaraz, Z. K., Alruwaih, A., Westfall, S., Shum-Tim, D., & Prakash, S. (2021). Albumin nanoparticle formulation for heart-targeted drug delivery: In vivo assessment of congestive heart failure. Pharmaceuticals, 14(7), 697.
12. Bassawon, R., & Shum-Tim, D. (2021). Extracorporeal life support in fulminant myocarditis: on the side or in the centre?. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 60(5), 1193-1194.
13. Ridwan, K., DeVarennes, B., Tchervenkov, C., Shum-Tim, D., Cecere, R., & Lachapelle, K. (2021). Postoperative nosocomial COVID-19 infection in cardiac surgery: an uncommon event with high mortality rate. CJC open, 3(10), 1217-1220.
14. Bassawon, R., Sirajuddin, S., Martucci, G., & Shum-Tim, D. (2022). Snare or scalpel: challenges of intracardiac cement embolism retrieval. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 113(2), e107-e110.

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