Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Dr. Rhian M Touyz
MBBCh, PhD, FRCP, FRSE, FCAHS, FMedSci
Dr. Touyz is the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. She is the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and the Dr. Phil Gold Chair in Medicine McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is also the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Emeritus Chair. She was recruited to Montreal in September 2021 after serving 10 years as the Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences and BHF Chair and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. She also directed the BHF Centre of Research Excellence in vascular biomedicine at the University of Glasgow.
A clinician-scientist, she received her BSc(Hons)(1980), MBBCh(1984), MSc(1986) and PhD(1992) in South Africa. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM) in 1996 and then progressed the scientific/academic ladder to become Staff Scientist and Professor in the CRIM, University of Montreal. In 2005 she was recruited to the Kidney Research Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Univeristy of Ottawa, where she was the Canada Research Chair in Hypertension Tier 1, until 2011 when she was recruited to the University of Glasgow to direct the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences.
She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, AHA, European Society of Cardiology, and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
She has received numerous awards and honours: the Dahl Award, Harriet Dustan Award, Hypertension Research Excellence Award, Robert M. Berne Award (American Physiological Society), RD Wright Award (BPRC, Australia), Irvine Page Award (American Society of Hypertension), Joan Mott Award (Physiology Society) and Kenneth Bloch Memorial Lecture Award in Vascular Biology (Council on basic cardiovascular sciences).
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
09:45 – 10:45 EST