Luc Mertens

Titles and Positions:
Section Head, Echocardiography, Hospital for Sick Children
Staff Physician, Division of Cardiology, Toronto General Hospital

Area(s) of Special Interest:
Congenital Echocardiography, General Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Bio:

Dr. Luc Mertens is currently the Director of the Echocardiography and co-director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mertens obtained his medical degree and a doctoral degree in Medical Sciences (Physiology and Molecular Biology) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He trained in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology at the University Hospitals Leuven and at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN (USA). He worked as a pediatric cardiologist at the University Hospitals in Leuven between 1998 and 2008. His clinical expertise is in pediatric echocardiography. His research interests focus on studying cardiac function in children.