Cardiologist
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Jean L. Rouleau obtained his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 1974, did his training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at McGill University, and did his post-graduate training at the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Rouleau has served as director of the coronary/cardiac care units of the Montreal General Hospital, Hôpital du Sacré Coeur, the Montreal Heart Institute, and Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN). Dr. Rouleau has also held a number of senior administrative positions including director of cardiology at the University of Sherbrooke from 1988 to 1993, and Director of the Cardiac Program and the Cardiology divisions at UHN and at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto from 1999 to 2003. He was Dean of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Medicine from 2003 to 2010. He was a member of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada’s (AFMC) executive committee, and co-chair of their research committee as well as the AFMC’s dean representative on the Canadian Medical School accreditation committee. Finally, he co-chaired the Association of Canadian Academic Health Organization (ACAHO) strategic plan in 2009.
Dr. Rouleau was associate director of the research center of the Montreal Heart Institute from 1995-98 and is presently director of the cardiac research axis at the Montreal Heart Institute’s research center. From 2005 to 2019, he served as co-director of the NHLBI heart failure network pharmacogenomics core. He served as a member of the CIHR Governing Council from 2005 to 2010, and was the Scientific Director of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) of the Canadian Institutes of Health and Research (CIHR) from 2010 to 2015. In 2011, he directed the development of what has become the largest strategic program of CIHR, the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR).
Dr. Rouleau has been awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal, the Exceptional Merit Award given by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ), the Canadian Henry Friesen Award, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society's Career Research Achievement Award, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society’s Annual Achievement Award, the Prestige Award given by the Quebec Medical Association and was named a member of the Order of Canada to recognize his contribution to the development of the field of cardiology as a researcher, a clinician and his high-caliber administrator.
Dr. Rouleau’s H index is 106, and he has published over 500 scientific articles in journals such as the American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. He presently is an active clinician at the Montreal Heart Institute, an executive committee member of several large clinical trials, and member or chair of a several data safety monitoring committees of clinical trials.
Friday, October 28, 2022
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM EDT