Dr. Rabinovitch is the Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, and the Director of the Basic Science and Engineering Initiative of the Children's Heart Center at Stanford University. Her research focuses on uncovering fundamental genetic, metabolic, and inflammatory mechanisms causing pulmonary hypertension that can be translated to the clinic.
Dr. Rabinovitch graduated from McGill University Medical School and completed her pediatrics training at the University of Colorado and cardiology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School where she was Assistant Professor. She became Associate and Full Professor of Pediatrics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Medicine at the University of Toronto, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Program at the Hospital for Sick Children and the Robert M. Freedom/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair.
Dr. Rabinovitch received numerous awards for research including the Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (2023), ATVB Distinguished Lectureship (2021), the Robert Beamish Leadership Award from the University of Manitoba (2019), the AHA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer (2017); the main ATS J. Burns Amberson Lecturer and was awarded the Robert F. Grover Prize(2016); the AAWS Judith Pool Mentorship Award (2012); the McGill University Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Cardiovascular Research (2010), AHA's Basic Research Prize and the CIHR Lectureship and Prize (2004); the Gill Heart Institute Award (2003). Her numerous named lectureships include the AHA Paul Dudley White and Dickinson Richards Lectures and the APS Julius Comroe Lecture. She has 231 peer-reviewed publications and 137 invited reviews and book chapters. Dr. Rabinovitch, served on the Executive Committee of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and International PVRI, the Scientific Advisory Councils of NHLBI, the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research and many Academic, Biotechnology and Private Research Foundation Boards. She is a member of the ASCI and AAP.