Researcher

Title

• Associate Director, Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, University of Montreal, 2006.
• Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cellular Biology, University of Montreal, 2004.
• Head, Department of Pathology, CHU Sainte-Justine, 2001.

• Fellowship in Pediatric Pathology, Cytogenetics and Molecular Pathology, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, 1994.
• PhD in Pathology, McGill University, 1992.
• MD, McGill University, 1986.
• MSc in Pathology, McGill University, 1983.

• The placenta of intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR) infants, with morphometric evaluations and correlation with clinical data, including long-term outcome.
• Epigenetic control of gene regulation in cancer and normal embryonic development, with a particular emphasis on IGF2/H19.
• The myoepithelial cell of the human breast in fetal development and cancer.
• Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in children and adults.

Career Summary

• Course in Medical Embryology given to medical students (20 hours, comprising morphologic, molecular and clinical aspects of development - textbook in preparation) and to BSc students (45 hours)
• Courses in Medical Genetics given to medical students and graduate students.
• Associate Editor of the 2nd edition of Potter's Pathology of the Fetus, Infant and Child, Mosby Elsevier Publishers, published in March 2007.
• Member of the Editorial Committee of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology since 2006.