Louis P. Perrault MD, PhD

Louis P. Perrault received his medical degree from Universite of Montréal in 1986. He completed 3 years of training in basic science research in Paris under the supervision of Professor Paul VanHoutte at Universite Louis-Pasteur and obtained a doctor degree (PhD) in fundamental research in 1997.

In 1997, Dr Perrault joined the department of cardiac surgery of the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) as a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon. He recently has been named chief of Service of the Cardiac Surgery Department. Dr Perrault is an active cardiac surgeon that performed around 200 cases this year. His areas of clinical expertise include: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery (CABG), valve surgery and heart transplantation. As an active researcher of the MHI, his main study fields are endothelial dysfunction in left ventricular hypertrophy, pulmonary hypertension following CPB, stem cells therapy and heart transplantation. Outside the hospital, he is a Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology at the Universite of Montreal and the director of the Extracorporeal Program of Perfusion since 2004. He is the current president for the CSCS.