Appointments and affiliations
Chair
Valve team
Lead
Valvular Heart Diseases Innovation Hub
Director
Centre for Valvular Heart Disease
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Professor
Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine
University of Ottawa
Dr. Messika-Zeitoun is a cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and a full professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He is currently director of the Centre for Valvular Heart Disease and of the Centre for Valvular Heart Disease Mobile Screening Program.
Background
Dr. Messika-Zeitoun was born in France. He graduated from medical school at the Université Paris VI Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in 1992. He completed his training in cardiology in Paris and became an assistant professor at Tenon Hospital in 1999. After a two-year research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic from 2001 to 2003, he returned to Paris to work at the Bichat Hospital as a staff member in the Division of Cardiology. He completed his PhD in 2009 and was appointed to full professor of cardiology in 2013. He was appointed as staff cardiologist and clinician investigator in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 2018.
- Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology
- Chairman of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Working group on Valvular Heart Disease
- Joint chair of the Dr. T.G. Mesana Endowed Team Chair in Heart Valve Disease
- Member of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography
- Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal (2020)
Research and clinical interests
Dr. Messika-Zeitoun is a non-invasive cardiologist specialized in echocardiography and valvular heart disease. He has a special interest in imaging and new transcatheter therapies. Dr. Messika-Zeitoun is leading the Centre for Valvular Heart Disease.
Publications
See current publications list at PubMed.
Selected publications
- Durr MR, Burwash IG, Tavoosi A, Prosperi-Porta G, Santi N, Unni RR, Lopez Laporte MA, Sharma AN, Aljamaan A, Paterson ID, Chan K, Andrew Mulloy LB, Alfraidi H, Lau L, Froeschl M, Messika-Zeitoun D. Challenges in the Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis: A Guide to Multimodal Imaging. Can J Cardiol. 2024 Oct 11:S0828-282X(24)01024-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2024.10.008. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39396771.
- Dreyfus J, Juarez-Casso F, Sala A, Carnero-Alcazar M, Eixerés-Esteve A, Bohbot Y, Bazire B, Flagiello M, Riant E, Mbaki Y, Tomasi J, Senage T, Rahmouni El Idrissi K, Coisne A, Eyharts D, Doguet F, Viau F, Eggenspieler F, Heuts S, Sardari Nia P, Heitzinger G, Galloo X, Ajmone Marsan N, Benfari G, Badano L, Muraru D, Maisano F, Topilsky Y, Michelena H, Enriquez-Sarano M, Bax J, Bartko P, Selton-Suty C, Habib G, Lavie-Badie Y, Modine T, Chan V, Le Tourneau T, Donal E, Lim P, Radu C, Bernick J, Wells GA, Tribouilloy C, Iung B, Obadia JF, De Bonis M, Crestanello J, Messika-Zeitoun D. Benefit of isolated surgical valve repair or replacement for functional tricuspid regurgitation and long-term outcomes stratified by the TRI-SCORE. Eur Heart J. 2024 Nov 8;45(42):4512-4522. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae578. PMID: 39212387.
- Messika-Zeitoun D, Mousavi J, Pourmoazen M, Cotte F, Dreyfus J, Nejjari M, Attias D, Kloeckner M, Ghostine S, Pierrard R, Eker A, Levy F, Le Dolley Y, Houel R, Unni RR, Burwash IG, Dryden A, Hynes M, Nicholson D, Labinaz M, Chan V, Albertini JN, Mesana T. Computational simulation model of transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair: a proof-of-concept study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Sep 30;25(10):1415-1422. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jeae137. PMID: 38801398; PMCID: PMC11441041.
- Prosperi-Porta G, Nguyen V, Willner N, Dreyfus J, Eltchaninoff H, Burwash IG, Michel M, Durand E, Gilard M, Dindorf C, Iung B, Cribier A, Vahanian A, Chevreul K, Messika-Zeitoun D. Association of Age and Sex With Use of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in France. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023 Nov 14;82(20):1889-1902. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.08.044. Epub 2023 Oct 23. PMID: 37877906.
- Dreyfus J, Galloo X, Taramasso M, Heitzinger G, Benfari G, Kresoja KP, Juarez-Casso F, Omran H, Bohbot Y, Iliadis C, Russo G, Topilsky Y, Weber M, Nombela-Franco L, Sala A, Eixerés-Esteve A, Iung B, Obadia JF, Estevez Loureiro R, Riant E, Donal E, Hausleiter J, Badano L, Le Tourneau T, Coisne A, Modine T, Latib A, Praz F, Windecker S, Zamorano JL, von Bardeleben RS, Tang GHL, Hahn R, Webb J, Muraru D, Nejjari M, Chan V, De Bonis M, Carnero-Alcazar M, Nickenig G, Pfister R, Tribouilloy C, Rudolph V, Crestanello J, Lurz P, Bartko P, Maisano F, Bax J, Enriquez-Sarano M, Messika-Zeitoun D; TRIGISTRY investigators. TRI-SCORE and benefit of intervention in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation. Eur Heart J. 2024 Feb 21;45(8):586-597. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad585. PMID: 37624856.
- Messika-Zeitoun D, Baumgartner H, Burwash IG, Vahanian A, Bax J, Pibarot P, Chan V, Leon M, Enriquez-Sarano M, Mesana T, Iung B. Unmet needs in valvular heart disease. Eur Heart J. 2023 Jun 1;44(21):1862-1873. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad121. PMID: 36924203.
- Willner N, Prosperi-Porta G, Lau L, Nam Fu AY, Boczar K, Poulin A, Di Santo P, Unni RR, Visintini S, Ronksley PE, Chan KL, Beauchesne L, Burwash IG, Messika-Zeitoun D. Aortic Stenosis Progression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Mar;16(3):314-328. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2022.10.009. Epub 2022 Dec 14. PMID: 36648053.
- Baumgartner H, Iung B, Messika-Zeitoun D. The year in cardiovascular medicine 2022: the top 10 papers in valvular heart disease. Eur Heart J. 2023 Feb 14;44(7):551-553. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac777. PMID: 36587939.