Oversight

RI-MUHC Annual Report

THE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2025

—Reporting period: April 2024 – March 2025

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD MEMBERS

Sarah Prichard, Chair
Mary-Anne Carignan, End date as Vice-Chair June 17, 2025
Sylvia Morin – Start date December 12, 2025, start date as Vice-Chair June 18, 2025
François Laurin, Treasurer
Gilbert Tordjman, Secretary – End date January 31, 2025 – Position vacant since then
Manon Desrosiers, Recording secretary
Dominique Bérubé – Start date September 26, 2025
Mark Nawacki – Start date April 2, 2025
Lesley Fellows
Russell Hiscock
Peter Kruyt
Anne Mezei
Lucie Opatrny
Rhian Touyz
Gloria Tannenbaum – End date September 26, 2025
Pierre Lortie – End date September 26, 2025
Martha Crago – End date June 20, 2025

GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS COMMITTEE

Sylvia Morin, Chair since December 9, 2025
Mary-Anne Carignan, Chair – End date as Chair November 30, 2025
Manon Desrosiers, Recording secretary
Don Nicholls
Nicola Vizioli
Peter Kruyt
Geneviève Burdon, Observer – Start date March 27, 2025
Lucie Opatrny, Observer
Sarah Prichard, Observer
Sonia Rea, Observer
Rhian Touyz, Observer

AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE

François Laurin, Chair
Vesna Pankovska, Interim secretary
Daniela Zorzetti, Recording secretary
Russell Hiscock
Peter Kruyt
Geneviève Dufresne
Pierre Lortie - End date November 21, 2024
Sarah Prichard, Invited guest
Rhian Touyz, Invited guest

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Russell Hiscock, Chair
Vesna Pankovska, Recording secretary
François Laurin
Mark Smith
Peter Kruyt
Sarah Prichard, Invited guest
Cristelle Basmaji, Invited guest

PEOPLE AND CULTURE COMMITTEE

Anne Mezei, Chair
Thérèse Nguyen, Recording secretary
Dominique Bérubé
Mary-Anne Carignan
Marie-Ève Rivard, Observer
Diego Herrera, Observer
Sonia Rea, Observer

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THE INSTITUTE

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Rhian Touyz, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, The Institute
Indra Gupta, Deputy Executive Director and Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, The Institute
Louise Pilote, Deputy Executive Director and Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, The Institute
Gilbert Tordjman, Chief Operating and Development Officer, The Institute – End date January 31, 2025 – Position vacant since then

LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

Rhian Touyz, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, The Institute
Indra Gupta, Deputy Executive Director and Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, The Institute
Louise Pilote, Deputy Executive Director and Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, The Institute
Gilbert Tordjman, Chief Operating and Development Officer, The Institute – End date January 31, 2025 – Position vacant since then
Alan Forster, Director, Digital Health Research, AI and Innovation at The Institute and Director of Innovation, Performance and Quality at the McGill University Health Centre
Liane Feldman, Chair, Department of Surgery at McGill University and Surgeon-in-chief, McGill University Health Centre
Bethany Foster, Chair, Department of Pediatrics at McGill University and Pediatrician-in-Chief, Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre
Marc Rodger, Chair, Department of Medicine at McGill University and Physician-in-Chief, McGill University Health Centre

EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Diego Herrera, Chair
Marilyn Ahun
Myriam Beauchamp
Syamala Buragadda
Julia Burnier
Annabel Wing-Yan Fan
Nicholas Hickens
Jini John
Alexandra Kindrat
Irina Kudrina
David Lessard
Carrie Martin
Augusto Montezano
Nitika Pai
Shiva Shahiri
André Simard

RESEARCH PROGRAM COUNCIL

Ciriaco Piccirillo, Chair

ADMINISTRATION

Rhian Touyz
Indra Gupta
Louise Pilote
Alan Forster
Susan James

CENTRE DIRECTORS, PROGRAM LEADERS AND DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

Alex Baldwin
Jake Barralet
Mariane Bertagnolli
David Buckeridge
Sergio Burgos
Alexandra De Pokomandy
Reza Farivar-Mohseni
Liane Feldman
Bethany Foster
Isabelle Gagnon
Ed Harvey
Katya Loban
Peter Metrakos
Sushmita Pamidi
Basil Petrof
Christian Rocheleau
Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze
Jesper Sjöström
Benjamin Smith
Patricia Tonin
Donald van Meyel
Simon Wing
Kolja Eppert – End date March 31, 2025
Keith Murai – End date July 15, 2024

DESJARDINS CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TRAINING REPRESENTATIVE

Emily Bell

RESEARCH PROGRAM MANAGERS

Eric Béliveau
Mohsen Damavandi
Marie-Claude Gingras
Alexandra Kindrat
Anne Mathiot
Inga Murawski
Lenka Schorova
Fanny Toussaint

SENIOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Rhian Touyz, Chair
Manon Desrosiers, Recording secretary
Shari Baum
Emily Bell
David Buckeridge
Lucie Côté
Alan Forster
Angela Genge
Indra Gupta
Diego Herrera
Susan James
Catriona McDonald
Vesna Pankovska
Ciriaco Piccirillo
Louise Pilote
Sonia Rea
Benjamin Smith
Pascal St-Onge
Rami Tohme
Patrice Vaillancourt
Don van Meyel
Simon Wing
Nadine Al Hage Ali – End date December 13, 2024
Gilbert Tordjman – End date January 31, 2025

CENTRE DIRECTORS

Angela Genge, Centre for Innovative Medicine – Start date January 20, 2025
Louise Pilote (Interim Director), Centre for Innovative Medicine – End date January 19, 2025
Benjamin Smith, Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Don van Meyel, Centre for Translational Biology

View The Institute’s current ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

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EXTERNAL OVERSIGHT

EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Victor Dzau (Chair)
President of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Washington, United States

Dr. Alan Bernstein
Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto; President Emeritus of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Toronto, Canada

Prof. Alexis Brice
Executive Director at the Paris Brain Institute in the ICM, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université
Paris, France

Dr. Rory Collins
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford; Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health; Fellow of Green Templeton College
Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr. David Gozal
Dean and Vice President for Health Affairs, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
West Virginia, United States

Prof. Glenda Elisabeth Gray
Chair of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and Distinguished Professor, Wits Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute
Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr. Julie R. Ingelfinger
Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; Senior Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology at Mass General Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital; Deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
Cambridge, United States

Dr. Calum MacRae
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair for Innovation in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH); Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Principal Faculty Member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Cambridge, United States

Prof. Nicolas Padoy
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Strasbourg; Scientific Director and Director of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Research at the Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU) of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France

Jacques Simard
Vice-Dean of Research and Innovation and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Université Laval; Senior Scientist at the CHU de Québec – Université Laval Research Center
Québec, Canada

Dr. Lillian Siu
Senior Medical Oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

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