CLINICAL INTERESTS
- Advanced Heart failure
- Cardiac transplantation
- Cardiac rehabilitation and prevention
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Cardiac sarcoidosis
- Cardiac amyloidosis
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Desplantie O, Ramanathan K, Daskalopoulou SS, Eisenberg M, Pilote L, Khan NA. Can Apolipoproteins apoB and apoB/apoA1 Ratio Predict Future Cardiovascular Risk Post Acute Coronary Syndrome? A Retrospective Cohort Study. J Clin Exp Cardiolog 2016, 7:5.
- Desplantie O, Tremblay-Gravel M, Avram R, Marquis-Gravel G, Ducharme A, Jolicoeur EM. The Medical Treatment of New Onset Peripartum Cardiomyopathy; a Systematic Review of prospective studies. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 31, Issue 12, 1421 – 1426. Editorial by Dr. R. Cardona-Guarache and Dr. J. Kron.
- Desplantie O, Filion KB, Eisenberg MJ. Perspectives on the Clinician-Scientist Pathway: A Survey of Cardiology Fellows. CJGIM 2012, Volume 7, Issue 4, 122-126.
MEDICAL SCHOOL/RESIDENCY/FELLOWSHIP/QUALIFICATIONS
- D.C.M. McGill University
- Internal medicine residency, UBC
- Adult cardiology fellowship, Université de Montréal
- Advanced heart failure and transplantation fellowship, St-Paul’s Hospital, UBC
- Cardiac rehabilitation and prevention fellowship, UBC
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC)
- Site director of the Vancouver Island Inherited Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy clinic
HIGHLIGHTS/ACHIEVEMENTS/COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Member of the secondary panel for the 2019 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure guidelines update
- Contributor to the 2017 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure guidelines
- CCS Bayer Vascular Award recipient in 2014
