The head of a research lab that induced heart attacks in dogs as part of human heart research is no longer with St. Joseph’s Hospital where she oversaw the animal experimentation.

A week after an IJB investigation into the clandestine dog testing program at St. Joseph’s triggered widespread public and political outrage, the hospital, which shut down the animal testing program Monday on orders from the premier of Ontario, announced Dr. Lisa Porter is gone.

The email address for the former vice-president of research and scientific director of the Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph’s Health Care London bounced back on Thursday. And a profile about her on the hospital’s website has been taken down.

A statement Thursday from Roy Butler, chief executive of St. Joseph’s Health Care, say

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