Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal
CHRS
Laurent Macle is a cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor of Medicine at
Université de Montréal, and chief of the Electrophysiology service at the Montreal
Heart Institute. He completed his Cardiology training at Université de Montréal
and did a fellowship in electrophysiology at the Montreal Heart Institute. He then
spent two years at the Hôpital Haut Lévèque, Université de Bordeaux in France
where he specialized in atrial fibrillation ablation with Professor Michel
Haïssaguerre.
Since returning to Montreal in 2002, his research interests have centered on
atrial fibrillation ablation. He has completed a large randomized international
clinical trial evaluating pharmacological testing during pulmonary vein isolation
procedures to increase success rates of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
(Lancet 2015). He has now published more than 170 academic journal articles.
He has been highly involved in teaching and was the director of the
electrophysiology fellowship program at the Montreal Heart Institute from 2009-
2014, and he is the Vice-Chair of the cardiology examination board of the Royal
College of Physicians of Canada. He is currently the Co-Chair of the Canadian
Cardiovascular Society guidelines on atrial fibrillation.
Thursday, October 24
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Thursday, October 24
12:30 PM – 12:35 PM
Thursday, October 24
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Thursday, October 24
1:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Thursday, October 24
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Friday, October 25
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Saturday, October 26
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM