Dr. Gernot Schram
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
175 Stillview Ave 143 Pointe-Claire Quebec, H9R 4S3About
A Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians, Dr. Gernot Schram is an established clinical cardiologist currently providing care at Lakeshore General Hospital in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. In addition, he works as Clinical Researcher at Montreal Heart Institute and Clinical Cardiologist at West Island Cardiology Center in Pointe-Claire, MUHC Cardiovascular Center. To begin his career, Dr. Schram attended the University of Tübingen and earned his medical degree in 1995. In 2006, he completed his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Montreal. Wanting to further his knowledge in the field, Dr. Schram went on to complete his internal medicine residency in 2007 from the University of Montreal, his cardiology residency in 2010, and his cardiac electrophysiology fellowship in 2012. Furthermore, Dr. Schram completed his echocardiography fellowship in 2012 from the University of Montreal. On a more personal note, Dr. Schram is fluent in English, French, and German.
Education and Training
Germany
Provider Details
Treatments
- Cardiology
Teaching and speaking
SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS:
May 2009 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology, Innsbruck, Austria
Title: Steroids and Vascular Resistance Reducing Agents Improve Cardiac Outcome and Survival in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Feb. 2005 49th Annual meeting of AESMB/Biophysical Society, Long Beach, California, USA
Title: Differences in Barium block of Kir2.1 vs Kir2.4: H5 segment confers voltage- but not concentration-dependence of block
Feb. 2003 4yth Annual meeting of AESMB/Biophysical Society, San Antonio, USA
Title: Ba2+ block of Kir2 and cardiac IK1: Evidence for subunit heteromeric contribution to native currents
Feb. 2002 46h Annual meeting of AESMB/Biophysical Society, San Francisco, USA
Title: Atrial ventricular differences in delayed rectifier expression and response to hyperthyroidism
Nov. 2000 73nd Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans, USA
Title: Kir2.4: A Novel Contributor to cardiac IK1 heterogeneity
June 2000 Research day of the Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Title: Kir2.4: A Novel Contributor to cardiac IK1 heterogeneity
Feb. 2000 44th Annual meeting of AESMB/Biophysical Society, New Orleans, USA
Title: Kir2.1 coassembles with Kir2.4 to form heterotetrameric inward rectifier channels
Nov. 1999 ?2nd Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Atlanta, USA
Title: Molecular Composition of human cardiac IK1 evaluated by barium
blocking profile
June 1999 Research day of the Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Title: Molecular composition of human cardiac IK1 evaluated by barium
blocking profile
Feb. 1999 43rci Annual meeting of AESMB/Biophysical Society, Baltimore, USA
Title: Differences in barium block among various inward rectifier subunit clones
In community, presentations and talks about atrial fibrillation with focus on oral anticoagulation.
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West Island Cariovascular Clinic
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