Full professor
Department of Surgery
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Louis Lacombe is a urologist-oncologist and clinical researcher at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, specifically at L’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.

Dr. Lacombe completed his medical training in Sherbrooke in 1988 and then pursued a specialization in Urology at Laval University in 1993. Subsequently, Dr. Lacombe traveled to New York to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center associated with Cornell University to undertake a subspecialization in uro-oncology. This subspecialization ended in 1996.

Following this subspecialization, Dr. Lacombe joined the Urology Department of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval in July 1996. As a urologist, Dr. Lacombe specializes in complex surgeries associated with prostate, kidney, testicular, and bladder cancer. He also collaborates in kidney transplant surgery.

Research at the Experimental Uro-Oncology Laboratory aims to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy of prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers, covering many aspects of research, from basic research to applied research. His interest is mainly focused on bladder and prostate cancers.

Dr. Lacombe is also actively involved in clinical research by conducting numerous Phase I, Phase II, or Phase III clinical trials to test new drugs or therapies. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator in more than 165 studies since the beginning of his career.

He has published more than 195 scientific papers and more than 300 scientific abstracts and has presented at many international conferences.

Throughout his career, he has been awarded the FRQS Junior I and II Clinician Fellowship. He is a full professor in the Department of Surgery, and from 2016 to 2024, he was the Head of the University Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine at Laval University.