Mark Friedberg
- Title:
- Staff Cardiologist, Echocardiography, Division of Cardiology
- Designations:
- MD
- Phone:
- 416-813-7239
- Email:
- mark.friedberg@sickkids.ca
- Alternate Contact Name:
- Danielle Warner
- Alternate Phone:
- 416-813-7654 ext. 403527
- Alternate Email:
- danielle.warner@sickkids.ca
- Alternate Fax:
- 416-813-7547
- U of T Positions:
- Professor of Paediatrics
Hospital Positions
Staff Cardiologist, Echocardiography
Research Positions
Senior Associate Scientist, SickKids Research Institute
Director of Research, Echocardiography Lab
Biography
Dr. Friedberg has been on staff as a Paediatric Cardiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children since 2006. He is a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and a Senior Associate Scientist with the SickKids Research Institute. Dr. Friedberg’s research interests are in the assessment of ventricular function in children with acquired and congenital heart disease. He uses various echo technologies, including strain imaging and artificial intelligence to study ventricular function and ventricular-ventricular interactions in pediatric heart disease. As a Senior Associate Scientist, Dr. Friedberg has a translational science lab that uses animal and in vitro models to delineate the mechanisms of RV dysfunction, focusing on the link between adverse mechanical load and the molecular signaling it triggers that leads to myocardial injury and dysfunction. These mechanisms, together with his clinical research, form the basis to investigate targets for mechanism-based therapy. Major research funding has been awarded from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation and Medicine by Design. He is Director of Research in the Echocardiography lab at the Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Friedberg’s leadership in academic pediatric echocardiography was acknowledged by an appointment to the editorial boards of the Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging Journal, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, and the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, where he also served as an associate editor. His research contributions to the field were recognized by being awarded the 2018 Feigenbaum lecturer at the American Society of Echocardiography.