A powerful voice for the role and place of the clinician scientist in modern academic health centres
After completing his medical degree at l’Université Laval and his paediatric training at McGill and Harvard, Dr. Claude Roy spent six years at the University of Colorado where he began an academic career in which research was always at the core of his academic activities. His major research contributions are in the areas of infant nutrition, metabolism of bile acids and fatty acids, chronic liver disease in infants and Cystic Fibrosis. As Director of Research as Ste-Justine, he greatly contributed to the hospital’s transformation into the paediatric university hospital it is today with an international reputation for exemplary care and for superb training and research programs.