Bruno Piedboeuf

Bruno Piedboeuf, MD, has done his medical school, his pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at the University of Montreal. After completing an additional three years in Molecular Biology at the University of Rochester, he has joined, in 1993, the Pediatric Department at Université Laval and the CHU de Québec as a clinician researcher where he practiced neonatology for 30 years. From 2003 to 2012, he was the Chair of the Pediatric Department at Université Laval and the pediatric chief at the CHU de Québec, and from 2012 to 2017, he was the executive vice-dean of the Faculty of medicine of Université Laval. Since 2009, he is the president of the Table sectorielle mère enfant of the province of Quebec. In 2018, he was appointed Director of the University affairs for the Quebec Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. His direction his responsible for the planification of the medical resources for the province.

He has maintained research activities over the years, and he is currently director of the Reproductive, maternal and child health research division of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Centre and because of his involvement in different administrative functions in the educational and health-care system, his interest in using evidence based medicine to improve the organization of the health care system growth and has directed his interests in research. He is the new president of the board of governance of the Canadian Neonatal Network.