VentriPoint Diagnostics Ltd. announced the appointment of Dr. Luc Mertens one of Canada's and the world's top practitioners of echocardiography to Clinical Advisory Board. Dr. Mertens, MD, PhD, is the current Section Head of Echocardiography at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and is also a Professor at the University of Toronto. His achievements and expertise are globally recognized in the echocardiography community.

Dr. Mertens received his medical degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium and trained as a Pediatric Cardiologist at the University of Leuven and at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN (USA). He worked as a paediatric cardiologist at the University Hospitals in Leuven between 1998 and 2008, focusing on paediatric echocardiography and studying cardiac function in children. Dr. Mertens has also received international recognition as the Feigenbaum Lecturer for the American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions in 2014, as well as the Founding Chair of the European Accreditation Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Echocardiography in 2004.