February is Heart Month: Meet Sarah Piper, an Algonquin College Heart Hero

Posted on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

February is Heart Month. Cardiovascular Technology student smiling

Meet Sarah Piper, a current student in Algonquin College’s Cardiovascular Technology program.

“I chose to explore a career in heart care because I found it super interesting. I have a bachelor’s degree from University of Ottawa with a major in history and I was an ESL teacher.

After working as a teacher for a few years, I realized that I couldn’t see myself teaching long term. When I decided not to continue with teaching, my parents suggested I follow in my dad’s footsteps and go into healthcare.

Healthcare for him was a second career. I took pre-health and that’s when I started looking into the different fields I could go into. I came across the Cardiovascular Technology program at Algonquin and was drawn to it. I started researching careers in the field, what it entailed, the different paths that would open up later down the line after completing the program and I was sold.

I don’t have much of a science or math background, and I never pictured being in a STEM field, but it challenges me in ways that I never expected.

I have learned so much about the heart, and health in Canada being in this program and I know there is still so much more to learn.

I find myself pushed in new ways, and I am so proud of my progress in the program. In the future, I hope to be able to blend some of my past experiences as an elementary school teacher and a cardiovascular technologist with the goal of working in pediatrics when I graduate in 2027.”

— Sarah Piper, Cardiovascular Technology student

Learn more about the Cardiovascular Technology program at Algonquin College.


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