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Professor
Faculty of Medicine
Université de Sherbrooke
Dr. Michel A. Bureau has been the Director General of the medical and academic unit of Quebec's Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux since 2003.
In this capacity, he holds departmental responsibility for academic medicine, health services, especially general and specialized hospital services, and services dealing with cancer, mental health, perinatal medicine, high-end technology and medical manpower.
Previously, Dr. Bureau enjoyed a long career in academic medicine at Université de Sherbrooke and McGill University. He held positions as professor and researcher in the department of pediatrics at the faculty of medicine, Université de Sherbrooke. Dr. Bureau earned his doctoral degree in medicine (M.D.) from Université Laval, and went on to complete his training as a specialist in pneumology, pediatrics and neonatology, first at McGill University and then at Université Louis-Pasteur de Strasbourg, in France. He founded the neonatal unit at Sherbrooke and was director of pediatric pneumology at McGill's Montreal Children's Hospital. He chaired the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) from 1995 to 2003, and served as dean of the faculty of medicine at Université de Sherbrooke. On the national level, he was a founding member of both the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, and sat on the boards of organizations such as Valorisation-Recherche Québec, Génome Québec, CANVAC, PharmaVision and SICUSM.
