Anique Ducharme

Dr. Anique Ducharme is a Professor of Medicine at Université de Montréal and holds the University of Montreal endowed chair “Fondation Marcelle and Jean Coutu, Cal & Janine Moisan for better practices in advanced heart failure.” She is also the founder and Director of the Heart Failure Clinic at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and a former Senior Clinical Researcher at the Fonds québécois de recherche en santé (FQRS). She is the immediate past president of the Canadian Heart Failure Society (CHFS) and the past chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress (2018-2020). In addition, she is an active member of the CCS Heart Failure Guidelines Committee, sitting on the primary panel since 2006. She is currently the co-chair for the ISHLT guidelines for the care of the pre-transplantation patient.

Dr. Ducharme graduated from Université de Montréal in 1991 in Medicine (MD) and Biomedical sciences (MSc, cardiac transplantation) and completed her residency in Cardiology in 1996. She pursued additional training in Echocardiography at the Montreal Heart Institute, then in Molecular Biology and Heart Failure at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. Since her return in 1999, she has held a position in the Noninvasive Cardiology department at the Montreal Heart Institute, where she carries out activities in echocardiography, advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation. Her clinical and research focus is on advanced heart failure, including remodeling, pharmacological and device therapies (cardiac resynchronization and percutaneous valvular therapies, mechanical assist devices and transplantation).

Dr. Ducharme has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles, 15 book chapters, 200 abstracts and 2 online university tutorial courses (Echocardiography Certificate, University of Melbourne, Australia).