Announcement: The Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative is now the Wendy Wray Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative.
Announcement: The Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative is now the Wendy Wray Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative.
Since 2009, the Wendy Wray Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative has been working to increase women’s awareness of their risk of heart disease and empowering them to improve their heart health. We are the first nurse-led collaborative women’s primary heart disease prevention clinic in Canada.
In the current era of limited accessibility to preventive health care services, our focus is on giving you the evidence-based facts and information you need to independently improve your heart health and well-being.
Wendy Wray, RN BScN MScN
Founder & Nurse Director · May 2026
“I hope you find our information helpful in your efforts to stay heart healthy. Our focus is on giving you the evidence-based facts you need to independently improve your heart health, including sex and gender specific risk, which is too often overlooked. As women, we have an amazing support network. Please pass on what you learn here. The more we all know about women’s risks of heart disease, the better for all of us.”
Wendy Wray is the Director of the McGill University Health Centre Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative, opened in 2009. She is a Fellow of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, a member of the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance, and the recipient of the 2017 Sara Louise King Award for Cardiology Research, the Senate of Canada 150 Bronze Medal, the 2017 MUHC Healthcare Professional of the Year Award, and the 2025 MUHC Nursing Award of Excellence – Outstanding Career.
The WHHI operates in collaboration with some of Canada’s leading medical institutions, ensuring our resources and guidance are grounded in the most current evidence.
