Clinician Scientist
McGill University Health Center and McGill University
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Louise Pilote is a Professor of Medicine at McGill University where she holds a James McGill chair. She is a practicing general internist and led the McGill division of general internal medicine from 2006-2016. Dr. Pilote research program targets gaining knowlegde on women specific risk factors, disease presentation and treatment and outcomes of cardiovascular diseases.
As a clinician scientist, Dr. Pilote has directed several research initiatives that led to important new insights into the determinants of premature coronary disease. With support from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Dr. Pilote led the GENESIS team which clarified the role of sex and gender in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes in heart disease and build capacity in women’s heart health research in Canada. Dr. Pilote recently launched the GOING-FWD consortium a data science, personalized medicine project funded by CIHR and the European GENDER-NET+ initiative, where 30 million patients with chronic disease across Canada and Europe will be analyzed using a sex and gender lens to more precisely predict their risk of clinical and patient-relevant outcomes.
As a principal investigator of the CAN-AIM team, funded by CIHR, Dr. Pilote has also harnessed big data to study sex differences in the effectiveness and safety of cardiac drugs and devices with a particular focus on atrial fibrillation, heart failure and diabetes.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM EDT