Dr. Elbatarny is currently a PGY3 in Cardiac Surgery, a PhD candidate in the Surgeon-Scientist Training Program, Clinician-Investigator Program Award Recipient, and a Vanier Scholar.
Her PhD in Multiomics of Thoracic Aortopathy involves state-of-the-art bioinformatics, molecular biology & gene therapy, artificial intelligence, and multi-centre trial collaborations to develop precision medicine tools for better prognosticating risk of type A dissection. Through this work she has established the MultiTAAD research working group. She has accumulated over $800K in research funds and mentored students to lead and present several MultiTAAD subanalyses at international meetings. Her clinical research also includes national and international multicentre collaborations using large registries from the CTAC, IRAD, and ISTH.
Dr. Elbatarny has served as a resident editor on the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSNet) for the past 4 years and is the Resident Representative on the University of Toronto Research Committee. She has a strong interest in patient eduction and global surgical outreach; thus she developed patient education campaigns, participated in global cardiac surgical rotations in Egypt, lead international and multi-centre collaborations, and most recently, is the founder of FlowLeaflets, a social enterprise for generation of clinical logbooks that raises funds for global surgical needs.
She is a self-taught graphic designer/medical illustrator, and an avid recreational cyclist.