Positions:

Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, CHUM

Previous Head, Endocrine division, Hotel-Dieu and Director Endocrine Training program, Université de Montréal

Chairman, Department of Medicine CHUM 2002-2008

Associate Director General for Medical and Academic Affairs at CHUM (2008-2012).

President of the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (2005-2007)

Chairperson of the International Society of Endocrinology (2016-20)

Editor of the Adrenal Section of UpToDate (Boston, MA), Editorial boards EJE, JCEM .

Awards

Medical Leadership award from CHUM Foundation in 1999

Robert Volpé  award from CSEM 2010

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences since 2008

Foreign member of the National Academy of Medicine of France since 2016.

Major Areas of Research

Molecular and genetic mechanisms of adrenal tumors and hyperplasias leading to Cushing's syndrome, primary aldosteronism and adrenal tumorigenesis.

Role of aberrant adrenal hormone receptors in adrenal overfunction.

New  drugs in the therapy of Cushing's disease and primary aldosteronism, of adrenocortical cancer and pheochromocytomas.

Pr. Lacroix  has published more than 225 articles (Including several in New England J Med, Lancet, Endocrine Reviews) or book chapters (h index: 59, 16559 citations, i10 index: 145), 305 scientific meeting abstracts and 315 invitations to conferences at national and international institutions or scientific meetings.