Kenneth Melvin

Dr. Kenneth Melvin is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and former Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at UHN. He graduated Medicine from the University of Toronto (1977), Internal Medicine Residency at Toronto General Hospital and Cardiology Fellowship at Stanford University in California. He studied at The National Heart and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, England. He was awarded his Fellowships in Internal Medicine and Cardiology by the Royal College of Physicians in 1983.

Dr. Melvin is currently the Cardiology Network Leader of the Quality Assurance Program for the CPSO. In the past three years he has been chair of a committee, along with colleagues at the College, and has undertaken a complete redesign of the peer assessment process, specific to the needs of cardiology specialists.  

Dr. Melvin is currently active as part of a UHN-Technion Israel Institute of Technology collaboration with the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine & Peter Munk Cardiac Centre project on cardiac stem cell research. This project promises to revolutionize cardiac care of heart failure and patients with severe heart attack damage.  

Dr. Melvin continues to practice full time, and teaches undergraduate medical students, residents and Fellows at the University of Toronto.