Dr. M. Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia, MD, PhD, is a pediatric electrophysiologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Université de Montréal. She leads the Pediatric Electrophysiology Program at CHU Sainte-Justine and is also part of the electrophysiology teams at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and the Montreal Heart Institute. She completed her medical training in Buenos Aires (Summa Cum Laude), followed by advanced fellowships in pediatric cardiology and electrophysiology at Harvard Medical School and extensive academic training in Europe, including a PhD on Brugada syndrome in the young (ULB Brussels) and an MSc in Cardiac Genomics (Imperial College London).
Her clinical and research work focuses on inherited arrhythmia syndromes, sudden cardiac death in the young, pediatric electrophysiological interventions, and precision medicine in channelopathies. She leads several international initiatives, including the International Pediatric Brugada Registry, and contributes to multiple international guideline committees (EHRA, PACES, HRS, FA/FIFA). She serves on editorial boards of Heart Rhythm O2, Heart Rhythm Case Reports, and the European Journal of Pediatrics, and is an invited reviewer for major cardiovascular journals.
Dr. Gonzalez Corcia has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, several book chapters, and two books, and is a frequent invited speaker at leading international cardiology congresses. She is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Université de Montréal Career Development Award and the Women as One Mentor Match Award.