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Denis Bouchard, MD, PhD

CARDIAC SURGEON
Montreal Heart Institute
Université de Montréal

Denis Bouchard MD CM, M.Sc, Ph.D, FRCS(C), studied medicine at McGill University and specialized in cardiac surgery at Université de Montréal. He completed a surgical fellowship in valve repair at the Cleveland Clinic. He has practiced adult valvular heart surgery at the Montreal Heart Institute where he joined the staff in 2000. Over the years, he has developed expertise in valvular repair, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy surgery. In 2006, he co-founded the Cardiac Surgery Minimally Invasive and robotic-assisted Surgical Program of the Montreal Heart Institute. As of this year, Dr Bouchard is Chair of the Cardiac Surgery Specialty Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Secretary of the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeon.

Dr. Bouchard is an active researcher and clinical investigator, with above 170 peer reviewed publications, 4 book chapters and has obtained a PhD in clinical research in Cardiac Surgery in 2014. He is invited around the globe for lectures and surgeries and has been leading 8 humanitarian cardiac surgery missions in Southern Egypt and Ethiopia to this day.

Dr. Bouchard is co-director of the Montreal Heart Institute Robotic and MIS Surgery Program within which he has completed more than 2000 mitral valve repair procedures. His clinical involvement now includes a specific interest in trans-catheter mitral and tricuspid therapies.

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