Rouleau, Dr. Jean L.
Biography
Named dean of the faculty of medicine of the University of Montreal in June 2003, Dr. Rouleau has first obtained his MD (cum laude) from the University of Ottawa in 1974 and obtained his FRCPC in Internal Medicine and in Cardiology following his training at McGill University. He won the McLaughlin Research Fellowship to the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California at San Francisco and returned to Canada where he held a number of key positions in Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology and Pharmacology at McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, University of Montreal, University of Sherbrooke and the Montreal Heart Institute.
Dr. Rouleau is an accomplished clinical cardiologist, having served as Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Montreal General Hospital, the Hôpital du Sacré Coeur in Montreal, and most recently at the University Health Network in Toronto. He has also been Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit of the Montreal General Hospital. He has served as Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology at the University of Sherbrooke as well as Associate Director of Research and Director of the Medical ICU at the Montreal Heart Institute. He received the Exceptional Merit Award of the FRSQ, and has been Governor for Quebec at the American College of Cardiology. He received the Confederation Commemorative Medal of Canada in 1992.
In addition, he is an excellent teacher having influenced a generation of students in both Cardiology and Medicine. In 1996-97 he won the Best Teacher of the Department of Medicine at the Montreal Heart Institute. He has also been a mentor to over 20 graduate and postgraduate research students who have come to study with him.However, it is for his research accomplishments that Dr. Rouleau has been best recognized in Canada and throughout the academic world. His research interests include: heart failure, post-infarction, ventricular remodelling, neurohormones, therapeutic interventions, ventricular function and the development of heart failure post-infarction. His work has explored myocardial pathophysiology, pharmacology and molecular biology in animal models and human subjects, and has contributed greatly to our fundamental understanding of myocardial and endothelial function in human disease. He also chaired the MRC Cardiovascular B Committee.
He has made major contributions in clinical research, examining multiple aspects of investigation and intervention in human heart disease. His studies have resulted in 300 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals, 6 book chapters and 271 published abstracts. For these research accomplishments, Dr. Rouleau was awarded the Career Research Achievement Award of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society in 1997.
He has served on several editorial committees, including his present post on the prestigious editorial board of Circulation (Journal of the American Heart Association), and the Editorial Board of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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