Dr Rafik Tadros is a cardiologist, clinical electrophysiologist and the director of the cardiovascular genetics centre at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI). He is associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Translational Cardiovascular Genetics. His clinical interests are sudden death in the young and heritable heart diseases. His research program focuses on applying genomics to cardiovascular clinical care and prevention as part of personalized medicine.