Listen to a presentation on personalized treatments in cardiovascular disease given by Simon de Denus, the Beaulieu-Saucier Chair in Pharmacogenomics at the Université de Montréal, whose research and teaching interests are in the areas of cardiovascular pharmacotherapy and personalized medicine.

He completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) in 1999 and completed his MSc in hospital pharmacy practice at the Université de Montréal in 2000. He then completed a residency in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in Montreal and then a Fellowship at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. De Denus obtained his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from UdeM. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UdeM, as well as a pharmacist and researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute. He has published over 80 articles in journals such Chest, Archives of Internal Medicine, Pharmacogenomics Journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, American Heart Journal, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has also authored more than 15 book chapters.