Rate My Professor Jodi Edwards

Dr. Jodi Edwards is an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and a Scientist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, where she serves as Director of the Brain and Heart Nexus Research Program, Director of the Population Outcomes Research Unit, and Scientific Director of the Data Science Centre. She holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, completed in 2014, and previously completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto before joining the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in December 2017. Her expertise is in cardiovascular epidemiology, with research focusing on risk assessment and predictive modeling for the heart-brain interface, identification of novel cardiac markers of stroke and dementia risk, clinical prediction tools, and neuromodulation interventions.

Dr. Edwards has received funding from CIHR, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Brain Canada, NSERC, and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. She is one of the named principal investigators on the Brain-Heart Interconnectome CFREF program and lead PI on the STROKECOG CIHR Clinical Trials Training Platform. Her awards include the Heart and Stroke Foundation National New Investigator in Women’s Heart and Brain Health, UOHI Investigator of the Year, Faculty of Medicine Early Career Researcher of the Year, and the Canadian Women’s Heart, Brain and Vascular Health Investigator Award. She has published extensively in journals including the Journal of the American Heart Association, Stroke, Neurology, and Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Dr. Edwards is a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Women’s Heart Health Alliance, Co-PI of the Canadian Platform for Trials in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, and has co-chaired roundtables and conferences on related topics.