Full professor
Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Michou completed her medical studies, residency in rheumatology, and PhD in human genetics in France. She concurrently completed a two-year clinical fellowship in fragility bone diseases at the Viggo Petersen Center, Rheumatology Federation, Lariboisière Hospital, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

Dr. Michou is a clinician-researcher at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center, a rheumatologist at the CHUL, and a regular teaching clinician at the Department of Medicine at Laval University. Dr. Michou is the principal investigator of several academic research projects in the field of rheumatic diseases, primarily funded by the Quebec Health Research Fund, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the oral and bone health research network, the Canadian Rheumatology Society, the Arthritis Society, and the CHU de Québec Foundation. She has supervised or co-supervised research projects for over 50 students at all three levels of university education, including master’s and doctoral students, as well as clinical research projects for rheumatology and internal medicine residents.

She is the author or co-author of 78 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, 148 oral or poster presentations at scientific conferences, 81 invited lectures, and around thirty articles on continuing medical education for rheumatologists or family physicians. She is the author of the Paget’s disease chapter in several reference works, such as the Rheumatology textbook (Hochberg), the EULAR textbook, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research primer, and the medical treatise (France).

Dr. Michou’s research interests include human genetics and precision medicine for bone and joint diseases, particularly Paget’s disease, rare bone diseases, osteoporosis, Dupuytren’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. She manages the Human Biological Material and Data Bank for the study of heritable musculoskeletal diseases.