Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Canada
Louis P. Perrault earned his medical degree from Université de Montréal in 1986. He pursued three years of basic science research training in Paris under the mentorship of Professor Paul VanHoutte at Université Louis-Pasteur, completing a PhD in fundamental research in 1997. That same year, Dr. Perrault joined the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) as a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon.
His clinical expertise includes coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), valve surgery, and heart transplantation. As an active researcher at the MHI, his primary research interests focus on endothelial dysfunction in left ventricular hypertrophy, pulmonary hypertension after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), stem cell therapy, and heart transplantation.
Dr. Perrault also serves as a Vice-Chair & Vice-Chair of scientific affairs at the department of surgery at Université de Montréal, but also as full Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology. He has been the Director of the Extracorporeal Perfusion Program since 2004. He has been the local Principal Investigator for the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSNet) under the NIH/CIHR since 2007 and is an investigator with the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ).
Dr. Perrault has authored or co-authored over 360 peer-reviewed articles, including publications in The New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, Journal of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, and The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. He has served as senior author on more than 90 of these papers and contributed several book chapters. Additionally, he has delivered over 60 lectures at international conferences. His key research areas include endothelial dysfunction in left ventricular hypertrophy, pulmonary hypertension post-CPB, stem cell therapy, and heart transplantation