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Dr Marc Ruel is Chief of Cardiac Surgery and the endowed chair of Cardiac Surgery Research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada.

Born in Quebec City, Dr. Ruel obtained his medical degree from the University of Ottawa, where he also completed his cardiac training. He left Canada in 2000 to accept a post-graduate fellowship at the Harvard University School of Public Health. He was also a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard University hospital in Boston. In 2002, he returned to Ottawa to join the Heart Institute and is currently Director of Cardiac Surgery Laboratory Research.