PhD Candidate, Biostatistician
Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
Université Laval, Canada
Marc Simard is PhD student at the Laval University (Québec, Canada) and is working in multimorbidity and polypharmacy population based surveillance. His projects included methodological improvement aspect of population based indicator using administrative database and epidemiology of multimorbidity (risk factors, prevalence and impact on health outcome). He is supported by the Québec Health Research Fund (FRQS), the Laval University Primary Care and Services Research Center (CERSSPL-UL) and the Québec City Center of Excellence on Aging (CEVQ).
He is Biostatistician at the Québec Institute of Public Heath for more than 10 years. He is the coordinator of the population-based multimorbidity surveillance projects for 4 years and his team published three scientific papers on multimorbidity topics. He is the author of the validation study of a comorbidity index using both 9th and 10th version of International Classification of Disease (ICD) system. He collaborates with researchers in many fields, including polypharmacy, juvenile diabetes and mental health. He was elected on the Board of directors of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) in 2015.
He likes hiking in forest and mountains and having fun with his child. He hopes to reach Mont Blanc summit in the next few years.