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null François Tournoux, MD, PhD

Scientist, RI-MUHC

Cardiovascular Health Across the Lifespan Program

Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, MUHC

 

Keywords

echocardiography • amyloidosis • exercise • digital health • heart failure

Research Focus

My research focuses on new technologies and strategies to transform heart failure management and patient experience, with a focus on cardiac imaging, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, exercise, and amyloidosis. I am also Director of the non-invasive cardiology at the MUHC.

Selected Publications

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  • Laurier, N., Salvini, Z., Syed, L. D., Hodzic, A., Ni, J., Poirier, P., d'Entremont, M. A., Jolly, S., Connelly, K. A., Tournoux, F., & Huynh, T. (2025). Normal echocardiographic and electrocardiographic indices in young female athletes: A meta-analysis across sex, types of sports, races and ethnicities. European journal of preventive cardiology, zwaf755. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf755. PMID: 41289042.

  • Saldanha, M., Chen, L. K., Solomon, J., Cunanan, K., Tournoux, F., Massie, R., & Chetrit, M. (2025). Beyond the Heart: Exploring Extracardiac Manifestations in Cardiac Amyloidosis for Early Diagnosis. Current cardiology reports, 27(1), 105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-025-02251-6. PMID: 40563051.

  • Legault, E. P., Ribeiro, P. A. B., Moreau-Amaru, D., Robert, E., Forte, S., Comtois, A. S., Samouëlian, V., & Tournoux, F. (2025). The PREPARE Study: Acceptability and Feasibility of a Telehealth Trimodal Prehabilitation Program for Women with Endometrial Neoplasia. Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 32(1), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol32010055. PMID: 39851971.

  • Marier-Tétrault, E., Bebawi, E., Béchard, S., Brouillard, P., Zuchinali, P., Remillard, E., Carrier, Z., Jean-Charles, L., Nguyen, J. N. K., Lehoux, P., Pomey, M. P., Ribeiro, P. A. B., & Tournoux, F. (2024). Remote Patient Monitoring and Digital Therapeutics Enhancing the Continuum of Care in Heart Failure: Nonrandomized Pilot Study. JMIR formative research, 8, e53444. https://doi.org/10.2196/53444. PMID: 39504548.

  • Hodzic, A., Gendron, P., Baron, E., Éthier, A., Bonnefous, O., Saloux, E., Milliez, P., Normand, H., & Tournoux, F. (2024). Inter-season training effects on cardiovascular health in American-style football players. BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation, 16(1), 108. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-024-00888-4. PMID: 38741116.