Ontario Consortium for Cardiac Imaging

Robert Gagnon, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C) [LHRI]
Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Physiology
The University of Western Ontario, Lawson Health Research Institute
St. Joseph's Health Centre, 268 Grosvenor Street, London, ON N6A 4V2
Telephone: 519-646-6106; Fax: 519-646-6213
Email: rgagnon @ uwo.ca
URL: Lawson Health Research Institute

Established investigator recruited to University of Western Ontario, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1987.
Completed 2.5 years Research Fellowship with Dr. John Patrick on Fetal Physiology.
Became Medical Research Council of Canada Scholar in 1989 and remained on External Salary Funding until 1999.
Pioneered an animal model using fetal sheep of chronic placental insufficiency.
As a result, demonstrated for the first time that chronic placental insufficiency leads to myocardial hypertrophy and chronic fetal hypertension.
Peer-reviewed funding from the Medical Research Council of Canada.
24 papers and 47 abstracts published over the last five years.
Major research projects using a non-invasive technology including Doppler technique to assess regional distribution of blood flow and cardiac function during placental insufficiency.
Interest in improving detection and treatment of placental insufficiency and using pharmacologic vasoactive agents to prevent myocardial hypertrophy and its consequences in adulthood.