Oversight
- Board members
- Governance and Ethics Committee
- Audit and Finance Committee
- Investment Committee
- People and Culture Committee
- External Scientific Advisory Board
- Executive Leadership
- Leadership Committee
- Senior Management Committee
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee
- Scientific Leadership Council (SLC)
- Research Program Council (RPC)
- Centre Directors, Program Leaders, and Department Chairs
- Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training Representative
- Organizational Chart
Board of Directors
Board Members
Officers
- Sarah Prichard, Chair
- Sylvia Morin, Vice-Chair (as of June 18, 2025)
- François Laurin, Treasurer
- Pierre-Albert Coubat, Secretary (as of September 17, 2025)
- Daniela Zorzetti, Recording Secretary (as of April 13, 2026)
Members
- Dominique Bérubé (as of September 26, 2025)
- Mary-Anne Carignan (Vice-Chair until June 17, 2025; continuing as board member)
- Lesley Fellows
- Russell Hiscock
- Peter Kruyt
- Anne Mezei
- Mark Nawacki (as of April 2, 2025)
- Lucie Opatrny
- Rhian Touyz
Departed in 2025–2026
- Martha Crago (until June 20, 2025)
- Pierre Lortie (until September 26, 2025)
- Gloria Tannenbaum (until September 26, 2025)
- Manon Desrosiers, Recording Secretary (until March 13, 2026)
Governance and Ethics Committee
Chair
- Sylvia Morin
Recording Secretary
- Rocio de la Infiesta
Members
- Peter Kruyt
- Don Nicholls
- Nicola Vizioli
Observers
- Geneviève Burdon
- Lucie Opatrny
- Sarah Prichard
- Sonia Rea
- Rhian Touyz
Audit and Finance Committee
Chair
- François Laurin
Secretary
- Pierre-Albert Coubat (as of September 17, 2025)
Recording Secretary
- Daniela Zorzetti
Members
- Patrick Ducharme (as of March 25, 2026)
- Russell Hiscock
- Peter Kruyt
Invited Guests
- Sarah Prichard
- Rhian Touyz
- Vesna Pankovska (as of September 17, 2025; previously Interim Secretary)
Departed in 2025–2026
- Geneviève Dufresne, Member (until November 20, 2025)
Investment Committee
Chair
- Russell Hiscock
Recording Secretary
- Daniela Zorzetti (as of February 11, 2026)
Members
- François Laurin
- Peter Kruyt
- Mark Smith
Invited Guests
- Pierre-Albert Coubat (as of September 15, 2025)
- Sarah Prichard
- Rhian Touyz
- Vesna Pankovska (as of February 11, 2026; previously Recording Secretary)
Observer
- Cristelle Basmaji
People and Culture Committee
Chair
- Anne Mezei
Recording Secretary
- Thérèse Nguyen
Members
- Dominique Bérubé
- Mary-Anne Carignan
Observers
- Diego Herrera
- Jana Hill
- Sonia Rea
- Marie-Ève Rivard
The Institute
Executive Leadership
- Rhian Touyz, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer
- Indra Gupta, Deputy Executive Director & Deputy Chief Scientific Officer
- Louise Pilote, Deputy Executive Director & Deputy Chief Scientific Officer
- Pierre-Albert Coubat, Chief Operating Officer
- Alan Forster, Digital Health Research, AI & Innovation Director
Leadership Committee
- Includes Executive Leadership (above), plus:
- Jake Barralet
- Liane S. Feldman
- Bethany Joy Foster
- Angela Genge
- Marc Rodger
- Kevin Schwartzman
Senior Management Committee
- Christina Antoniou
- Emily Bell
- Benoit Chambaron
- Pierre-Albert Coubat
- Lucie Cote
- Alan Forster
- Angela Genge
- Indra Gupta
- Diego Herrera
- Susan James
- Raphieal Newbold
- Sushmita Pamidi
- Vesna Pankovska
- Ciriaco Piccirillo
- Louise Pilote
- Sonia Rea
- Benjamin Smith
- Pascal St-Onge
- Rami Tohme
- Rhian Touyz
- Patrice Vaillancourt
- Donald Van Meyel
Invited External Members
- Shari Baum
- David Buckeridge
- Catriona McDonald
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee
Chair
- Diego Herrera
Members
- Marilyn Ahun
- Syamala Buragadda
- Julia Burnier
- Annabel Wing-Yan Fan
- Suleima Jacob-Tomas
- Jini John
- Alexandra Kindrat
- Irina Kudrina
- David Lessard
- Gabrielle Mariano
- Augusto Montezano
- Aurore Palanque
- Janae Palmer
- Darcy Wagner
Scientific Leadership Council (SLC)
- Alexander Baldwin
- Jake Barralet
- Mariane Bertagnolli
- Marie Brossard-Racine
- David Buckeridge
- Julia Burnier
- Pierre-Albert Coubat
- Styliani Stella Daskalopoulou
- Reza Farivar-Mohseni
- Livia Garzia
- Angela Genge
- Necola Guerrina
- Indra Gupta
- Susan James
- Tania Janaudis Ferreira
- Loydie Jerome-Majewska
- Sushmita Pamidi
- Ciriaco Piccirillo
- Louise Pilote
- Christian Rocheleau
- Simon Rousseau
- Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze
- Abhinav Sharma
- Jesper Sjöström
- Benjamin Smith
- Rhian Touyz
- Donald Van Meyel
Research Program Council (RPC)
Chair
- Ciriaco Piccirillo
Members
- Alexander Baldwin
- Jake Barralet
- Eric Beliveau
- Emily Bell
- Mariane Bertagnolli
- Amelie Bourdiec
- Marie Brossard-Racine
- David Buckeridge
- Julia Burnier
- Benoit Chambaron
- Pierre-Albert Coubat
- Mohsen Damavandi
- Styliani Stella Daskalopoulou
- Reza Farivar-Mohseni
- Alan Forster
- Livia Garzia
- Angela Genge
- Indra Gupta
- Diego Herrera
- Susan James
- Tania Janaudis Ferreira
- Loydie Jerome-Majewska
- Alexandra Kindrat
- Thomas Kucharski
- Katya Loban
- Anne Mathiot
- Inga Murawski
- Meranda Nakhla
- Sushmita Pamidi
- Vesna Pankovska
- Louise Pilote
- Sonia Rea
- Christian Rocheleau
- Simon Rousseau
- Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze
- Lenka Schorova
- Kevin Schwartzman
- Abhinav Sharma
- Jesper Sjöström
- Benjamin Smith
- Araz Toukmahji
- Fanny Toussaint
- Donald Van Meyel
Centre Directors, Program Leaders, and Department Chairs
- Alex Baldwin
- Jake Barralet
- Mariane Bertagnolli
- Marie Brossard-Racine
- Styliani Stella Daskalopoulou
- Liane Feldman
- Bethany Foster
- Livia Garzia
- Angela Genge
- Tania Janaudis-Ferreira
- Loydie Jerome-Majewska
- Ciriaco Piccirillo
- Christian Rocheleau
- Marc Rodger
- Simon Rousseau
- Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze
- Jesper Sjöström
- Benjamin Smith
- Donald Van Meyel
Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training Representative
- Emily Bell
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External Oversight
External Scientific Advisory Board
Chair
Dr. Victor Dzau
President of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Washington, DC, United States
Members
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
Prof. 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