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