Jean-Claude Tardif is the Director of the Research Centre and cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and professor of medicine at the University of Montreal.

Dr. Tardif graduated from the University of Montreal with his medical degree in 1987 and completed his training in cardiology and research in Montreal and Boston in 1994. Dr. Tardif holds the University of Montreal endowed research chair in atherosclerosis. He is the scientific director of the Montreal Heart Institute Coordinating Centre (MHICC) and chairman of the steering committee of the Canadian Atherosclerosis Imaging Network (CAIN) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Tardif has authored and co-authored more than 600 articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed publications including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Circulation, The European Heart Journal and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In addition, he has written more than 30 book chapters and has edited several books. He is the principal investigator of several large international clinical trials in the field of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases.

Because of his accomplishments, Dr Tardif was named Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS).