MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE - Key Persons


Alain Deguire

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee

Catherine Marcaurelle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Human Resources Technical Coordinator

Christian Morissette

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Treasurer of the Executive Committee

Claudine Nowocien

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Legal Advisor - Corporate Affairs

David Rhainds

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Deputy Director, MHI Research Center

Dr Donato Terrone

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated

Dr Serge Doucet

Job Titles:
  • Director of Education
  • Member of the Executive Team

Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Director of the Research
  • Director of the Research Centre
  • Director, Montreal Heart Institute Research Center Research Center Administrative Services Coordinator
Jean-Claude Tardif is the Director of the Research Centre at the Montreal Heart Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal. Dr Tardif graduated from the University of Montreal with his medical degree in 1987 and completed his training in cardiology and research in Montreal and Boston in 1994. Dr Tardif holds the Canada Research Chair in personalized medicine and the University of Montreal endowed research chair in atherosclerosis. He is the Scientific Director of the Montreal Health Innovations Coordinating Centre (MHICC) and Chairman of the steering committees of the CIHR-funded Canadian Atherosclerosis Imaging Network (CAIN) and Medical Imaging Trials NEtwork of Canada (MITNEC). His research covers the molecular and genomic aspects of atherosclerosis and related diseases and also involves animal models, mechanistic and observational clinical studies as well as early clinical studies and large international randomized clinical trials. Dr Tardif is or has been the international principal investigator or part of the study leadership of several large clinical trials in the field of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases. Dr Tardif and his team have created the Beaulieu-Saucier Pharmacogenomics Center at the Montreal Heart Institute and he has created the Center of Excellence in Personalized Medicine, the latter funded by the Network of Centers of Excellence of Canada and which is also supported by multiple pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies. Dr Tardif has authored more than 600 scientific articles and has won multiple awards during his career, including the Research Achievement Award of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the Distinguished Lecturer Award of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Genesis Award of BIOQuébec (for his outstanding contributions to life sciences) and the Armand-Frappier Award of the Government of Québec (the highest scientific honour). He was also named scientific personality of the year by La Presse newspaper. Because of his accomplishments, Dr Tardif was named Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS) and was recently inducted in the Order of Canada (the highest distinction in the country).

Dr. Martin Juneau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Director of Prevention

Dr. Pierre Pagé

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Director of Professional / Services

Dre Valérie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated

Fabiola Duré

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Technician

Garth Linton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Projects and Logistics Manager ( CDR )

Gilles Spinelli

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Ivan de Grandpré

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Julie Rodrigue

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Research Fund Senior Manager

Karine Nadeau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Head of Reseach / Education

Lily Carignan

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee

Mr Gilles Lefebvre

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Deputy Director of the Research Center

Mr Paul Dubé

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team

Mr Yves Amyot

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Team

Mr. Christian Baron

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Appointed
  • Member of the Complaint Review Committee
  • Member of the Research Committee

Mr. Henri-Paul Rousseau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated
  • Observing Member for the MHI Foundation

Mr. Marc de Bellefeuille

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Financial, Material and Information Resources Committee
  • Member of the Human Resources Committee
  • Member of the Independant
  • Human Resources Committee

Mr. Mark Liszkowski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Prevention Committee

Mr. Philippe Demers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee

Mr. Pierre Anctil

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Independant

Mr. Robert Couillard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated
  • Member of the Financial, Material and Information Resources Committee

Mr. Robert Courteau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Financial, Material and Information Resources Committee
  • Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Independant

Mr. Éric Bédard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Complaint Review Committee
  • Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Independant
  • Research Committee
  • Research Ethics and New Tech. Dev. Committee

Ms. Andrée-Lise Méthot

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Independant

Ms. Brigitte Boyer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Independant
  • Member of the Vigilance and Quality Committee
  • Risk Management Committee

Ms. Carole Boucher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Director of Multidisciplinary Services

Ms. Geneviève Giraldeau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Prevention Committee

Ms. Isabelle Perras

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Independant

Ms. Isabelle Viger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Independant
  • Member of the Prevention Committee
  • Clinical Ethics Committee

Ms. Joelle Boisvert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Independant

Ms. Liza O'Doherty

Job Titles:
  • Director of Nursing
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Member of the Risk Management Committee
  • Member of the Vigilance and Quality Committee

Ms. Lucie Verret

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated

Ms. Manon Léveillé

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated

Ms. Mélanie La Couture - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Appointed
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • President

Ms. Sarah Samson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Designated

Ms. Sylvie Mireault

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Director, Human Resources, Communications

Normand Brunet

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Philippe Bessette

Job Titles:
  • Planning, Programming and Research Agent

Pierre Blais

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Secretary of the Executive Committee
  • Risk Management Committee

Pierre Soulié

Job Titles:
  • Professors
Born in 1919, Paul David studied medicine at Université de Montréal and graduated in 1944. Encouraged to specialize in cardiology during his residency at Hôpital Notre-Dame, he spent a year in Boston with Dr. Paul Dudley White, a renowned North American cardiologist. The following year, he studied with eminent professors Pierre Soulié and Jean Lenègre at the Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris. When he came back to Montréal in 1947 , he immediately began applying what he learned from his exceptional training in the United States and France. With the foresight of the impending boom in modern cardiology, he developed a project-which was very cutting-edge for the time-to create an institute that was entirely dedicated to this field. Decades later, it is not surprising to see the Montreal Heart Institute's unique place at the crossroads of the American and French cardiology traditions.

Sylvie Lacroix

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Research Ethics and New Technology Development Committee
  • Research Ethics Advisor