Cardiologist & Senior Clinician Researcher

Director, Coronary Care Unit, MHI

Full Professor of Medicine, UdeM

Director, MD-Research Program, UdeM

Director, Interventional Cardiology Program, UdeM

Dr. Jean-François Tanguay received his M.D. degree from the Université de Montréal School of Medicine, where he completed his internship, internal medicine residency, and cardiology fellowship. After an interventional fellowship at the Montreal Heart Institute, he trained at Duke University Medical Center in the Interventional Cardiology Program. He is Director of the Experimental Interventional Cardiology Laboratory at the Montreal Heart Institute.

He has authored or co-authored over 350 scientific publications, abstracts and book chapters in addition to serving as President of the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC) from 2002 to 2005 and being Chair of the Committee for the Antiplatelet Therapy Guidelines of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. These guidelines were published in 2011 and updated in 2013 in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.