Doctor Eileen O'Meara

Dr. Eileen O’Meara is a professor at Université de Montréal and at the Montreal Heart Institute. She specializes in Heart Failure, and Echocardiography. She holds the MHI Carolyn and Richard J Renaud’s research chair in Heart Failure and is the co-director of the Myocardial Research Axis at MHI. She is a member of the Internal Review Board, of the Research Core Echocardiography Laboratory and of the Pharmacology Committee at MHI, as well as Chief of Outpatients Clinics at MHI. She served as Co-Chair of the Primary Panel for the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Heart Failure Society (CCS and CHFS) HF Guidelines and co- chair of the Cardiorenal Protection Guidelines for the CCS/CHFS (2020-2022). She was section lead for the 2025 CCS HFpEF guidelines. Her research focuses on cardio-kidney-metabolic interactions and fibrosis in HF, including circulating and cardiac imaging biomarkers; as well as on comorbid conditions that contribute to HF, namely atrial fibrillation and anemia