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René Cardinal is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, researching electrophysiological and nervous mechanisms of cardiac rhythm disorders, cellular electrophysiology, and antiarrhythmic drug actions in myocardial ischemia.
Education:
- 1981: Postdoctoral internship at Sacré-Coeur Hospital Research Center, Canada
- 1980: Postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiology and Clinical Physiology at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1978: Ph.D. in Pharmacology from McGill University, Canada
- 1973: B.Sc. in Biophysics from University of Montreal, Canada
His research integrates cardiac electrophysiology with pharmacological interventions, focusing on arrhythmia mechanisms in ischemic conditions. Key investigations include drug effects on action potential dynamics, anisotropic conduction abnormalities, and ventricular tachycardia initiation/stability using translational models spanning cellular preparations to canine and human subjects.
Publications from 1994-1996 reveal consistent methodology in experimental cardiac electrophysiology, with emphasis on post-infarction arrhythmias, antiarrhythmic drug evaluation (e.g., captopril, lignocaine), and spatiotemporal dynamics of reentrant circuits in ventricular tissue.
Advising: Supervises Ph.D. candidate Ghayda Al-Hawat and M.Sc. student Stéphanie Falcao. Laboratory operations involve research assistants Jean-Yves Domerçant, Michel Vermeulen, Yalin Yin, and technician Caroline Bouchard conducting electrophysiological experiments and data analysis.
