Membership and Professional Organizations
Current
Jan. 2022 – Member, International Society for Forensic Genetics,
Ethics Advisory Board
Jun. 2020 – Conseil de Direction, Centre de Recherche en Droit
Prospectif (CRDP)
Dec. 2019 – Member, Steering Committee, Secure Cloud, Ethics and
Policy Lead
Dec. 2019 – Member, Ethics Advisory Board, iReceptor Plus
Dec. 2019 – Co-Lead Regulatory and ethics work stream (REWS)
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)
March 2019 – Member, Observatoire international sur les impacts
sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique
Apr. 2018 – Scientific Director, Genetic Discrimination Observatory
(GDO)
July 2017 – Member, IHEC International Scientific Steering
Committee (ISSC)
May 2017 – Member, Sectoral Commission, Natural, Social and
Human Sciences, Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Apr. 2016 – Regular Investigator, Quebec Population Health Research
Network (QPHRN)
Apr. 2016 – Member Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
Committee on Ethics, Law and Society (CELS)
Jan. 2016 – Member, Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Jan. 2016 – Member, Association québécoise de droit comparé
Nov. 2015 – Chair, Bioethics Working Group, International
Epigenome Consortium (IHEC)
Jul. 2015 – Member, McGill Research Group on Health and Law
(RGHL)
Apr. 2015 – Member, World Association for Medical Law (WAML)
Feb. 2015 – Member, Board of Directors, Quebec Network for
Personalized Health Care (QNPHC)
Apr. 2014 – Member, private research ethics board, Veritas IRB Inc.,
Montreal
Mar. 2014 – Member of the Steering Committee, Quebec’s Network of
Applied Genetic Medicine, RMGA
Nov. 2013 – Co-Chair, Ethics and Policy Working Group,
International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC)
Dec. 2011 – Member of the World Association for Medical Law,
Belgium
Feb. 2009 – Member of the Pedagogical Committee, Association for
Research and Education in Medical Law (ARFDM)
Jan. 2008 – Associate Member, Centre for Intellectual Property
Policy (CIPP), McGill
Past
Jan. 2021 – Mar. 2022 Chair, CanCOGeN, Data Sharing Committee
May 2020 – Mar. 2022 Chair, CanCOGeN, Ethics and Goverance Commitee
Jul. 2016 – Jun. 2020 Chair, Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow
Project (CPTP), Data Access Committee
May 2015 – Apr. 2020 Member, International Cancer Genome
Consortium ARGO (ICGC ARGO) Scientific
Planning Committee
Feb. 2015 – Jun. 2020 Member, Board of Directors, Quebec Network
for Personalized Health Care (QNPHC)
Mar. 2009 – Dec. 2019 Member of the Public Population Project in
Genomics (P3G) Consortium
Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2018 Member, Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
Sept. 2015 – Sept. 2017 Chair, Standards Group, UNESCO and Human
Variome Project
May 2015 – May 2017 Member, Exactis Innovation, Scientific Advisory
Board
Apr. 2014 – July 2018 Member of the Board of Directors, Quebec
Clinical Research Organization in Cancer (Q-
CROC)
Apr. 2015 – Jan 2017 Member, Genome Canada, Data Sharing Policies
Advisory Committee
Apr. 2014 – Feb. 2015 Member, External Advisory Board, Quebec
Network for Personalized Health Care (QNPHC)
Jan. 2013 – Nov. 2015 Co-Chair, International Epigenome Consortium
(IHEC) Bioethics Working Group
Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2011 Expert Consultant for the independent non-
profit consultancy firm The
Innovation Partnership (TIP)
Oct. 2007 – Jan. 2009 Member of the panel on “The Return on
Investments in Health Research”, Canadian
Academy of Health Sciences
Mar. 2006 – Feb. 2007 Member of the External Working Group on the
Registration and Disclosure of Clinical Trials
Information (Health Canada)
Jun. 2005 – Jun. 2011 Member of the Independent Ethics Advisory
Board of Genizon BioSciences Inc.
Jan. 2004 – Feb. 2009 North American Coordinator of the Association
for Research and Education in Medical Law
(ARFDM)
Jan. 2004 – Jan. 2008 Associate Member of the Service de médecine
génique du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de
Montréal (CHUM)
Oct. 2003 – Sept. 2008 Member of the International Expert Group on
Biotechnology, Innovation and Intellectual
Property (McGill University)
Jun. 2003 – Apr. 2004 Coordinator of the Canadian Genetics and Life
Insurance Task Force
Jan. 2003 – Jan. 2013 Member of the Young Bar Association of the
Province of Quebec (Canada)
Jan. 2002 – Jun. 2007 Member of the International Institute of
Research in Ethics and Biomedicine (IIREB)
Aug. 2000 – Jan. 2014 Legal Representative of the Clinical Research
Ethics Committee of the Montreal General
Hospital
Aug. 2000 – Jan. 2014 Substitute Member of the Research Ethics
Committee (surgical), Montreal General Hospital,
Royal Victoria Hospital
Aug. 2000 – Jan. 2014 Substitute Member of the Biomedical Research
Ethics Committee, Montreal Chest Hospital
Centre
Board Memberships (Scientific Journals)
May 2020 – Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
May 2020 – Member of the Editorial Board, Laws
Jun. 2017 – Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Canadian Journal of Bioethics
Jan. 2016 – Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Medical Law International (MLI)
Nov. 2015 – Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal
FACETS
Mar. 2013 – Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal
Frontiers in ELSI in Science and Genetics
Apr. 2012 – Member of the Scientific Committee of the legal
journal Lex Electronica
Feb. 2011 – 2020 Member of the international Editorial Board of the
scientific journal Current Pharmacogenomics and
Personalized Medicine (CPPM)
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