Sean A. Virani

Dr. Sean Virani is responsible for PHSA medical affairs, physician compensation and engagement. He also leads quality and safety for medical staff, including physicians and nurse practitioners, Infection Prevention and Control, the BC Medical Quality Initiative, and has oversight for PHSA’s Health Authority Medical Advisory Committee.

Dr. Virani is a respected physician and a key opinion leader for heart failure in Canada, bringing more than two decades of medical experience to the role. He also serves as head of the division of cardiology for Providence Health Care (PHC) and physician program director with the Heart Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital.

Dr. Virani previously served as the provincial medical director for Cardiac Services BC, a past-president of the Canadian Heart Failure Society as well as associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Guidelines Panel and co-chair of B.C.’s Provincial Advisory Panel on Cardiac Health. He also serves as medical director for HeartLife Foundation.

He completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at UBC before embarking on a sub-specialization in heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Stanford University. Dr. Virani also has a masters degree in public health from Columbia University with a focus on health-care management.