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George Thanassoulis

ResearcherMedicine/CardiologyMcGill University

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George Thanassoulis

Researcher

Medicine/Cardiology

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
66 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (11 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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178

Publications

2,052

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Research

Genomics Cardiovascular Disease Mendelian Randomization Aortic Stenosis Prevention Risk Prediction Myocardial Infarction Aortic Valve

Latest papers

Rationale and Design of the Canadian Lipoprotein(a) Registry.
CJC open · 2026
Sex-Focused Evaluation of Income and Education and the Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases Within a Universal Healthcare Context.
CJC open · 2026
Interplay of HDL cholesterol and apoB and the risk of incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in UK Biobank.
European journal of preventive cardiology · 2026

All 178 publications

Latest funding

Deconstructing the phenotypic heterogeneity of type-2-diabetes associated with cardiovascular outcomes through multi-omics profiling and clinical clustering: DECIDE-CCVS program
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$703,800
Using Routine Lab Tests to Develop and Validate a New Risk Prediction Model for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$286,876
Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Secondary Prevention Pathway Planning Meeting: Exploring the Potential for Scale and Spread Across Canada
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$19,870

All 18 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 178 publications.

Rationale and Design of the Canadian Lipoprotein(a) Registry.

Kramer AI, Abdel-Qadir H, Abramson BL, Baass A, Bergeron J, Bollu A, Cermakova L, Couture P, Fordyce CB, Gupta M, Hegele RA, Mancini GBJ, McPherson R, Moulson N, Pearson GJ, Roston T, Ruel I, Sedlak T, Sherman MH, Thanassoulis G, Udell JA, Verma S, Wan D, Iatan I, Brunham LR

CJC open2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2026.06.003 PMID: 42756755

Sex-Focused Evaluation of Income and Education and the Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases Within a Universal Healthcare Context.

Haichin K, Alter D, Poirier P, Ni J, Tardif JC, Goodman SG, Yan A, Ko D, d'Entremont MA, Lawler PR, Spaziano M, Sharma A, Thanassoulis G, Dery JP, Nguyen M, Mansour S, Lee DS, Schampaert E, Huynh T

CJC open2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2026.03.014 PMID: 42610040

Interplay of HDL cholesterol and apoB and the risk of incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in UK Biobank.

Sniderman A, Pencina K, Thanassoulis G, Dufresne L, Pencina M

European journal of preventive cardiology2026

DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwag400 PMID: 42533703

Aspirin use, lipoprotein(a), and calcific aortic valve disease: the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Razavi AC, Bhatia HS, Marrero N, Dzaye O, Post WS, Nasir K, Tsai M, Vaccarino V, Vasan RS, Thanassoulis G, Tsimikas S, Sperling LS, Budoff MJ, Blumenthal RS, Blaha MJ, Whelton SP

European heart journal2026

DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehag018 PMID: 41721439

Regulators of Mineralization and Long-Term Progression of Aortic Valve and Mitral Annular Calcification: MESA.

Bortnick AE, Naveed M, Fu X, Shea K, Kestenbaum B, de Boer I, Ix JH, Kim R, Hamerton E, Kankaria R, Tracy RP, Tsai M, Budoff M, Thanassoulis G, Booth S, Kizer JR

Journal of the American Heart Association2026

DOI: 10.1161/jaha.125.042370 PMID: 42786596

Poor Performance of LDL-Cholesterol Equations versus Beta Quantification in a Very Large Cohort of Patients with Dyslipidemia.

Paquette M, Thanassoulis G, Sherman MH, Blank DW, Baass A

Clinical chemistry2026

DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvag038 PMID: 42047357

Old and New Lines of Therapy Targeting Lipoprotein(a).

Anchouche K, Koran N, Thanassoulis G

Current atherosclerosis reports2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11883-026-01419-x PMID: 42234287

Association of Polygenic Risk Scores With Aortic Valve Calcium: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Whelton SP, Yao J, Clish C, Wood AC, Taylor KD, Blaha MJ, Budoff M, Marrero N, Thanassoulis G, Post WS, Guo X, Rotter JI

Journal of the American Heart Association2026

DOI: 10.1161/jaha.124.040064 PMID: 42089167

Sex-Specific Prognostic Value of Aortic Valve Calcium and the Risk for Aortic Stenosis: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

Marrero N, Jha K, Grant JK, Razavi AC, Budoff MJ, Shah SJ, Rotter JI, Blumenthal RS, Post WS, Gulati M, Shaw LJ, Thanassoulis G, Blaha MJ, Whelton SP

Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging2026

DOI: 10.1161/circimaging.125.018849 PMID: 41953973

ApoA-1 versus HDL-C as markers of cardiovascular risk.

Bilgic S, Pencina K, Pencina M, Dufresne L, Thanassoulis G, Sniderman A

Journal of clinical lipidology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jacl.2026.02.017 PMID: 41832071

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George Thanassoulis

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Rationale and Design of the Canadian Lipoprotein(a) Registry.

Sex-Focused Evaluation of Income and Education and the Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases Within a Universal Healthcare Context.

Interplay of HDL cholesterol and apoB and the risk of incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in UK Biobank.

Aspirin use, lipoprotein(a), and calcific aortic valve disease: the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Regulators of Mineralization and Long-Term Progression of Aortic Valve and Mitral Annular Calcification: MESA.

Poor Performance of LDL-Cholesterol Equations versus Beta Quantification in a Very Large Cohort of Patients with Dyslipidemia.

Old and New Lines of Therapy Targeting Lipoprotein(a).

Association of Polygenic Risk Scores With Aortic Valve Calcium: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

Sex-Specific Prognostic Value of Aortic Valve Calcium and the Risk for Aortic Stenosis: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

ApoA-1 versus HDL-C as markers of cardiovascular risk.

Frequent collaborators

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Louise Pilote

Patrick Couture

Jean-Claude Tardif

Jacques Genest

Ruth McPherson

Vidal Essebag

Karen Tu

Patrick Mathieu

Jean-Claude Tardif

Mark Lathrop

David Messika-Zeitoun

Maneesh Sud

Thao Huynh

Philippe Pibarot

Marie-Annick Clavel

Igor Karp

Jacqueline Joza

Michael Goldfarb

Paul Poirier

Eva Lonn

Laurent Macle

Eric Smith

Peter Selby

Guillaume Pare

Diana Sherifali

Gina (Ragini) Agarwal

Sean Wharton

Gina Agarwal

Jeff Healey

Amritanshu Pandey

Robert Sladek

Sonia Anand

Nicole Bernard

Martin Dawes

Salim Yusuf

Marie-Pierre Dubé

Shamir Mehta

Christos Tsoukas

James Brophy