Carol Richards is a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CIRRIS). She was the founding Director (1994-2003) of the Quebec Provincial Rehabilitation Research Network and co-founder of the Canadian Consortium of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation and the Laval University Research Chair in Cerebral Palsy, and is a member of the Governing Council of CIHR. As one of the first physiotherapists in Canada to obtain a ...

Barry Posner is internationally recognized for his work in cell signaling and diabetes. His current research focuses on the genes responsible for diabetes, the discovery of which will aid in the prediction and treatment of this disease. Following post-graduate work at MIT and the NIH, he joined the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University in 1970. He has trained over 35 graduate and post-graduate students, given over 160 lectures as a Visiting Professor and published more than 270 scientific manuscripts. He is a recipient of the 1990 Distinguished Scientist Award of the CSCI, a fellow of ...

Professueur titulaire, Faculté de médicine, Université Laval

Le Dr Parent a acquis une renommee internationale grace a ses travaux sur l’organisation anatomique et fonctionnelle des regions du cerveau impliquees dans les maladies de Parkinson et de Huntington. Ses etudes lui ont permis de jeter un eclairage nouveau sur la pathogenise de ces maladies neurologiques degeneratives. Le Dr Parent est l’un des chercheurs les plus cites au monde dans Ie domaine des neurosciences. I1 est l’auteur d’un prestigieux traite de neuroanatomie hurnaine et il a contribue a la formation de nombreux jeunes chercheurs et joue un role important dans le developpement de la ...

Director, Centre of Genomics & Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine and the Chaire d’excellence Pierre Fermat (France). She is Professor at the Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal and Senior Researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). She is a graduate of McMaster University (B.A.), University of Alberta (M.A.), McGill University (LL.B., B.C.L.), Cambridge University, U.K., (D.L.S.), Sorbonne Paris I) (Phd.) and was admitted to the Bar of Québec in 1985. She has authored numerous articles and books. Professor Knoppers is former Chair of the International ...

Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine & Emergency Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke

Paul Grand'Maison MD, MSc, FCFPC, FCAHS, FRCPSC(Hon), CQ Paul Grand'Maison has significantly contributed to the evolution of Medicine and Family Medicine, in Quebec, in Canada and internationally. Faculty at Université de Sherbrooke faculty of Medicine since 1976, he is an expert in medical education: curriculum reform, distributed education, human resource development, global health, social accountability. He has a major interest in humanity in medicine, more specifically in compassionand accompaniment of end of life persons; in 2016, he published the book "Guérir est humain" on that ...

Prof. Orthopedic Surgery & Member of the Centre for Medical, McGill University

Richard L. Cruess is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, as well as a Member of the Centre for Medical Education at McGill University. He previously served as Chair of Orthopedics (1976-1981), and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University (1981-1995), and as President of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges (1992-1994). He is an Officer of The Order of Canada and of L’Ordre National du Québec. Since 1995, he has carried out independent research on professionalism in medicine.