Barbara Cifra

Titles and Positions:
Staff physician, Division of Cardiology, Hospital for Sick Children
Exercise Medicine Program Director

Area(s) of Special Interest:
Exercise medicine

Bio:

Dr. Cifra is leading the Lifestyle Medicine Program within the Adult Congenital Heart Disease program at Toronto General Hospital.

She completed her residency in Sports Medicine, focusing her training in cardiology and exercise physiology in Rome. In 2012, she started a research fellowship in the Echocardiography Laboratory in the Labatt Family Heart Centre where she developed the Exercise Stress Echocardiography Program. Since 2016 Dr. Cifra has been leading the Exercise Medicine Program at SickKids, a program that focus on healthy lifestyle plan and exercise recommendation for children with heart disease. The program has extended beyond cardiac patients to include patients who are on active maintenance therapy or who have completed therapy for cancer.