Dr. Anique Ducharme is a Professor of Medicine at Université de Montréal. She is also the founder and Director of the Heart Failure Clinic at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), scientific program committee chair for the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress (2019-20), vice-president of the Canadian Heart Failure Society and an active member of the CCS HF Guidelines Committee, since 2006. She is the chair holder of the University of Montreal’s Fondation Coutu & Cal and Janine Moisan for best practices in advanced HF. She graduated from Université de Montréal in 1991 in Medicine (MD) and Biomedical sciences (MSc, cardiac transplantation), completed her residency in Cardiology in 1996 and a research fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (1998-99). Her clinical and research focus is on advanced HF, including remodeling, pharmacological and device therapies (CRT, MCS). She had published over 150 articles 16 book chapters and sits on many steering committees