Paul Brassard, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine
Dr Brassard is a public health and preventive medicine physician with post graduate training in parasitology and epidemiology. He is a Professor of Medicine at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ in Montreal and a clinician investigator in Clinical Epidemiology at the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Health Center and an associate member at the Lady Davis Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital.
Dr Brassard is currently developing a screening, prevention and promotion agenda focusing on the modern cancers touching the Inuit population of Canada, also looking into the natural history of inflammatory bowel diseases in Quebec, and conducting pharmacovigilance studies using large databanks to explore the exposure /disease relationship between commonly prescribed medications (such as steroids, metformin or statins) and common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer and infectious diseases.