As part of Black History Month, today our spotlight is on Dr. Alexandra Bastiany, a physician who has made her mark on Canadian medicine. Growing up in Montreal, Dr. Bastiany’s family was always supportive of her dreams to pursue medicine.
In 2020, she became Canada’s first Black woman in interventional cardiology. 🩺
Dr. Alexandra Bastiany was born and raised in Montreal, by proud Haitian parents. She earned her medical degree and completed her Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the Université de Montréal (UdeM), where she graduated with honors in 2018. She is currently a cardiologist at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Centre.
In 2020, she successfully completed her fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute (University of Alberta) in Edmonton, making her the first Black female Interventional Cardiologist in Canada.
Dr. Bastiany has always believed in investing time with the people in her community. Over the past 10 years she has partnered with a local community center in Montreal “La maison d’Haïti” where she collaborated in various health initiatives to help raise awareness and de-stigmatize common health issues afflicting the Haitian population of Montreal. She has also worked directly with other local community organizations, and started career days for minority and children from underserved communities, working to provide them with representation via professional role models.
Dr. Bastiany has recently founded her very first clinic: The Ridgeway Cardiology Clinic, a boutique cardiology outpatient practice in partnership with the Ridgeway Clinic in Thunder Bay. Combining her expertise in cardiovascular disease and her passion for community work, Dr. Bastiany is actively working to decrease the race and gender biases leading to differences in standard of care and clinical outcomes.