Sean van Diepen is an academic Cardiologist-Intensivist at the University of Alberta Hospital. He is co-director of the Coronary Intensive Care Unit at the University of Alberta Hospital. Dr. van Diepen is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Critical Care, and is cross appointed to the Division of Cardiology (Department of Medicine) at the University of Alberta. He is also a faculty member of the Canadian VIGOUR Centre (Virtual Coordinating Centre for Global Collaborative Cardiovascular Research).