Dr. Luc Mertens

Professor Luc Mertens has been the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Program at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa since April 2025. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Leuven, Belgium and acquired a doctoral degree in Medical Sciences. Luc went on to complete specialized training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology at the University Hospitals Leuven and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA. From 1998 – 2008, Prof Mertens worked as a consultant pediatric cardiologist for the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. He moved to Toronto in 2008 where he became the Medical Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and later also Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at the Labatt Family Heart Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children. He was promoted to Full Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto in 2013. He worked as a Senior Associate Scientist in the Translational Medicine Program at the SickKids Research Institute.