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- Senior Investigator, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Lady Davis Institute
- Director of the Cardiovascular Health Services Research Group, Jewish General Hospital
- Director of the Cardiac Catheterization
Laboratory, Jewish General Hospital
- James McGill Professor of Medicine, McGill University
- Director of the MD-PhD Program, McGill
University
Dr. Eisenberg is a James
McGill Professor of Medicine at McGill University and a Staff Cardiologist at
the Jewish General Hospital. He is an Associate Member of the McGill Department
of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. In addition to his
clinical responsibilities, Dr. Eisenberg is Director of the McGill MD-PhD
Program, as well as Director of the Cardiovascular Health Services Research
Group of the Jewish General Hospital and a Senior Investigator at the Centre
for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies.
Dr. Eisenberg was born in
Rochester, New York. He completed a BA in Chemistry in 1980 at Cornell
University, followed by an MD at the University of Rochester. After completing
his MD, Dr. Eisenberg did a residency in internal medicine at McGill
University, a Masters of Public Health at Harvard University, a research
fellowship in echocardiography and epidemiology and a cardiology fellowship at
the University of California in San Francisco. In 1995, Dr. Eisenberg completed
an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.
In 2008-2009, Dr. Eisenberg
spent a year in Israel as a visiting professor in the Department of Human
Metabolism and Nutrition at the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Hebrew University,
Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine. During this
sabbatical, he also completed an International Master’s of Health Leadership at
McGill University.
Dr. Eisenberg is married and has five children. He is fluent in English, French, and Hebrew.
Major Research Activities
Over
the course of his career, Dr. Eisenberg has published over 300 articles in
peer-reviewed journals and participated in multiple collaborative works.
His
research team is examining the use and effectiveness of various smoking
cessation pharmacotherapies with several randomized controlled trials. The
Zyban as an Effective Smoking Cessation Aid (ZESCA) trial compared the efficacy
of bupropion (Zyban) to that of a placebo as a means of reducing smoking rates
in patients following an enzyme-positive acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The evaluation
of varenicline (Champix™) in smoking cessation for patients post-acute coronary
syndrome (EVITA) trial examined the efficacy and safety of varenicline for
smoking cessation post-ACS. The CIHR-funded Evaluating the Efficacy of E-Cigarette
use for Smoking Cessation (E3) trial assessed the efficacy of nicotine and
non-nicotine e-cigarettes for smoking cessation in the general population of
smokers motivated to quit. Dr. Eisenberg’s current CIHR-funded trial, titled
Aggressive Smoking Cessation Therapy Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome (ASAP), aims
to determine the efficacy of combining varenicline and nicotine e-cigarettes
for increased smoking abstinence in patients with ACS.
Dr.
Eisenberg’s research team also performs systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Recent publications concern the regulation, ethics, and efficacy of
e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, impaired driving and cannabis use, and revascularization in patients with ST-segment elevation
myocardial infarction and multivessel coronary disease.
In addition, Dr. Eisenberg
has authored four books, the links for which are listed under the “Important
Links” section of this page.
Recent Publications
Belzile-Dugas E, Eisenberg MJ. Radiation-Induced Cardiovascular Disease: Review of
an Underrecognized Pathology. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Sep 21;10(18):e021686.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.021686. Epub 2021 Sep 6.
Razaghizad A, Windle SB, Filion KB, Gore G,
Kudrina I, Paraskevopoulos E, Kimmelman J, Martel MO, Eisenberg MJ. The Effect of Overdose Education and Naloxone
Distribution: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews. Am J Public Health.
2021 Aug;111(8):e1-e12. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306306. Epub 2021 Jul 2.
Windle SB, Sequeira C,
Filion KB, Thombs BD, Reynier P, Grad R, Ells C, Eisenberg MJ.
Impaired driving and legalization of recreational cannabis. CMAJ. 2021 Apr
6;193(14):E481-E485. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.191032.
Levett
JY, Windle SB, Filion KB, Cabaussel J, Eisenberg
MJ. Meta-Analysis of Complete versus Culprit-Only Revascularization in
Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Multivessel
Coronary Disease. Am J Cardiol.
2020 Nov 15;135:40-49. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2020.08.030.
Eisenberg MJ, Hébert-Losier A, Windle SB, Greenspoon T, Brandys T, Fulop T, Nguyen
T, Elkouri S, Montigny M, Wilderman I, Bertrand OF, Bostwick JA, Abrahamson J,
Lacasse Y, Pakhale S, Cabaussel J, Filion KB. Effect of E-Cigarettes Plus
Counseling vs Counseling Alone on Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Clinical
Trial. JAMA. 2020 Nov 10;324(18):1844-54. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.18889.
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