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Dr. John G. Coles is a leading expert on cardiac stem cells. Since 1984, Dr. Coles has been a professor in Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada, and senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. Dr. Coles is the surgical director of the Cardiac Transplantation Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. He is also the author of over 200 scientific proceedings, patents, and journal publications. The work of Dr. Coles and the Cardiac Transplantation Team has been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, on CBS 60 Minutes, in The Toronto Star, and highlighted on CBC Discovery. From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Coles was president of Intellectual Technologies Group, a private fund he founded to invest in University-based technologies. Dr. Coles has extensive experience in organization of University-Industry partnerships designed for the commercial implementation of university-based technology, including the successful research and development program for Internetbased applications using Session Initiation Protocol developed at Columbia University, New York. Dr. Coles received a Medical Degree cum laude from University of Western Ontario, and a Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Toronto in 1982. He completed a fellowship in subspecialty training in complex congenital heart surgery at University of Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Coles’ professional affiliations include the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Data Centre, the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
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