Health e-News

Chantal Thomas appointed Managing Director, Development, Faculty of Medicine

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Chantal Thomas as Managing Director, Development, in the Faculty of Medicine, effective September 5, 2017.
Chantal brings a wealth of experience to the position as she has been working in advancement leadership roles at the Université de Montréal since 1991, including their most senior role, Executive Director, Office of Development and Alumni Relations.
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Dr. Francis Girard appointed Associate Director, AEC 10, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Physiology

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Francis Girard, PhD, to the position of Associate Director, Administrative Excellence Centre (AEC) 10, encompassing the Departments of Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Physiology within the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. Dr. Girard takes over from Interim Associate Director Maria Isabel Ramirez, effective August 29, 2017.
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Dr. Logan Walsh joins Goodman Cancer Research Centre and Department of Human Genetics

Together with the Department of Human Genetics, the Goodman Cancer Research Centre welcomes Dr. Logan Walsh from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York City. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Logan Walsh and wishing him continued success in his research.
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Dr. Daniela Quail joins the Goodman Cancer Research Centre and Department of Physiology

Together with the Department of Physiology, the Goodman Cancer Research Centre welcomes Dr. Daniela Quail from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, in New York City. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Daniela Quail and wishing her continued success in her research.
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Welcome to the 2017-2018 academic year

Message from the principal:

The nearly 200 international flags that currently line Sherbrooke Street as part of “La Balade pour la Paix” are a perfect symbol for a university and a city that celebrate and embrace diversity. More than 45,000 people study and work on our downtown and Macdonald campuses. You come to McGill from across Quebec, Canada and the world. I would like to welcome all of you to an academic year that is sure to be filled with great ideas, exciting projects and boundless energy.
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In memoriam: Dr. Shreyas Roy (1979 – 2017)

The Faculty of Medicine was saddened to learn about the tragic recent passing of Dr. Shreyas Roy, a member of the McGill MDCM Class of 2010. Our condolences go out to Dr. Roy’s family and friends.
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Happy 99th birthday, Dr. Milner!

The Montreal Neurological Institute celebrated some important birthdays recently, including the unstoppable Dr. Brenda Milner, a renowned neuropsychologist, who turned 99, Dr. Hanna Pappius, 92, and Dr. Gilles Bertrand, 93. Happy Birthday!
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This year, let’s ensure students’ mental health isn’t their top worry

In his most recent HuffPost opinion piece, Dr. Rob Whitley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, offers the timely reminder that a new academic year is both exciting and stressful for many young peopled. Dr. Whitley shares insights on how individuals and the community-at-large within a student’s network can help promote and support mental health during the upcoming semester.
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George Eli Armstrong’s burning curiosity

A noted innovator in an era of rapid change, former McGill University Dean of Medicine Dr. George Eli Armstrong is credited with being the first in Montreal to champion two revolutionary medical practices at the turn of the last century: radium and endotracheal anaesthesia.
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Moshe Szyf on TED Radio Hour: How do our experiences rewire our brains and bodies?

Dr. Moshe Szyf, Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, recently gave a talk for TED Radio Hour to dispel the common belief that genetic makeup is fixed from birth. In his talk, Dr. Szyf shares his pioneering work in epigenetics and explains how experience and environment both have the ability to alter biology.
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Proliferating drug trials pose pitfalls for doctors and patients

In a Viewpoint article published online this week in JAMA, researchers from McGill University in Montreal and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York caution that researchers, physicians, and regulators may be overestimating the value of many new drugs because they fail to consider all the evidence available to them.
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Eating protein three times a day could make our seniors stronger

Loss of muscle is an inevitable consequence of aging that can lead to frailty, falls or mobility problems. Eating enough protein is one way to remedy it, but it would seem that spreading protein equally among the three daily meals could be linked to greater mass and muscle strength in the elderly. These are the findings of a study conducted at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in collaboration with l’Université de Sherbrooke and l’Université de Montréal.
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Searching for the signature causes of BRCAness in breast cancer

An international team of researchers, including McGill University’s Dr. William Foulkes, reanalyzed data from nearly 1,000 breast cancer tumors collected by The Cancer Genome Atlas. Their findings, reported in Nature Genetics, hint that mutational signatures like Signature 3 might fuel a precision medicine approach that uses a tumor’s full scope of mutations to guide risk and treatment decisions, instead of focusing on individual genes.
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Dr. Eduardo Franco receives the Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research

Dr. Eduardo Franco, James McGill Professor and Chair of the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research, given by the University of British Columbia (UBC). Congratulations Dr. Franco!
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August winner of the Étudiants-chercheurs étoiles award

Claire Gizowski, a PhD student in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, is the award winner of the Fonds Santé, one of the three Fonds awards of the Fonds de recherche du Québec.

Congratulations Claire!
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Medicine welcomes new Global Health fellows

The Steinberg Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship has announced its 2017 cohort. Over the next year, Shaun Cleaver and Wenhua Wang will be tackling, respectively, the impact of social policy on disabled individuals in Zambia and primary health care evaluation in China. Their fellowships begin in September.
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