Stephane Rinfret MD, SM, FRCPC

Dr. Stephane Rinfret, MD, SM, FRCPC, is a Professor at Emory University. He completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Montreal in 1997 and pursued clinical training in interventional cardiology at the Montreal Heart Institute and at the Central Hospital of the University of Montreal (CHUM) in 1998 and 1999. He completed a postgraduate fellowship in Interventional Cardiology, Health Services, and Economic Research, in 2001, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Clinical Research Institute (Harvard University).

He also obtained a science master's (S.M.) degree in clinical epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2001. Dr. Rinfret spent the first 7 years of his career at the CHUM and moved in 2008 to the Institute University of cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec (IUCPQ) (Quebec Heart and Lung Institute) where he spent 7 years.

He is now appointed as chief of interventional cardiology at the MUCH and associate professor of medicine at McGill University since January 2016. He has held several peer-reviewed grants, published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and several abstracts, and has been invited over 200 times to give lectures in the past 6 years. His epidemiological research focuses on health services and outcomes.

He is also a high-volume and world-renown coronary operator, performing over 300 percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) per year, mostly from the transradial approach and most referred complex anatomies, and responsible for the new MUHC chronic total occlusion (CTO) and Complex Higher-risk but Indicated Procedures (CHIP) program. He is the lead editor of a textbook on CTO PCI published by Springer in 2015.