Pavel Hamet is a Canada Research Chair on Predictive Genomics, Chief, Gene Medicine Services, Member, Endocrinology Services at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), and past Director-Founder of its Research Centre from 1996-2006. He is also a tenured Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, Adjunct Professor in the Departement of Medicine at McGill University and Visiting Professor at the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Doctor in medicine in 1967 from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Ph.D. in experimental medicine in 1972 from McGill University, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada since 1984 and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences founded in 2005. Dr. Hamet is author and co-author of over 450 scientific publications and holds several international patents. He serves on many national and international boards including Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee of the Government of Canada.