Doctor Desiree Nadine Wussler

Desiree Wussler, MD, is an internal medicine specialist and interventional cardiology fellow currently training at Vancouver General Hospital, Canada. She graduated as medical doctor (MD) from Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany with a doctoral thesis in basic science and the grading "summa cum laude". Her research in Clinical Cardiology at University Hospital Basel focusses on the diagnosis, risk-prediction and early treatment of acute heart failure and myocardial infarction, cardiac biomarkers and sex-specific differences in cardiovascular disease. She authored and co-authored more than 100 scientific publications in high-impact peer-reviewed international journals. Currently, she holds a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her research on Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) at Vancouver General Hospital, Canada. Desiree Wussler is a runner, cyclist as well as a skate skiing and yoga enthusiast.