Membership and Professional Organizations

Current

Jul. 2025 – Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Board on Life Sciences

Mar. 2024 – Steering Committee, Canadian Genomics Data Commons (CGDC)

Jul. 2023 – Member, CFREF, DNA to RNA (D2R) Research Steering Committee (executive), D2R Ethics, Equity and Policy Committee and Chair of EDI Committee

Dec. 2022 – Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Workshop planning committee Engaging Scientists in Central Asia on Data Governance Principles for Life Science Data

Nov. 2022 – Member, Human Pangenome Reference Consortium Working Group on International Partnership

Dec. 2019 – Member, Steering Committee, Secure Cloud (SD4H), Ethics and Policy Lead

Apr. 2018 – Scientific Director, Genetic Discrimination Observatory (GDO)

May 2017 – Member, Sectoral Commission, Natural, Social and Human Sciences, Canadian Commission for UNESCO

May 2016 – Member, 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, Association québécoise de droit comparé

Jul. 2015 – Member, McGill Research Group on Health and Law (RGHL)      

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. 2025 – Dec. 2025 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)

Jun. 2024 – Nov. 2025 Full member, College of Reviewers, Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Jan. 2022 – Jul. 2025 Member, International Society for Forensic Genetics, Ethics Advisory Board (Co–chair from Oct 2023)

Dec. 2019 – Nov. 2024 Co-Lead Regulatory and ethics work stream (REWS) Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)

Mar. 2019 – Apr. 2024 Member, Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique

Jan. 2024 – Mar. 2024 Temporary advisor, WHO on the development of the WHO guiding principles for human genome data sharing

Jul. 2017 – Feb. 2024 Member, IHEC International Scientific Steering Committee (ISSC)

Oct 2022 – Jan. 2024 Member, Predictive Genomics Advancement Group, Thermo Fisher

Apr. 2014 – Jun. 2023 Member, private research ethics board, Veritas IRB Inc., Montreal

Dec. 2019 – Sept. 2022 Member, Ethics Advisory Board, iReceptor Plus

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

Mar. 2014 – Mar. 2020 Member of the Steering Committee, Quebec’s Network of Applied Genetic Medicine, RMGA

Mar. 2009 – Dec. 2019 Member of the Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) Consortium

Jan. 2009 – Dec. 2018 Data Access Officer, International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)

Apr. 2014 – July 2018 Member of the Board of Directors, QuebecClinical Research Organization in Cancer (Q-CROC)        

Sept. 2015 – Sept. 2017 Chair, Standards Group, UNESCO and Human Variome Project

May 2015 – May 2017 Member, Exactis Innovation, Scientific Advisory Board

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)

Aug. 2000 – Jan. 2014 Legal Representative, Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Montreal General Hospital

Aug. 2000 – Jan. 2014 Substitute Member, Research Ethics Committee (surgical), Montreal General Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital

Aug. 2000 – Jan. 2014 Substitute Member, Biomedical Research Ethics Committee, Montreal Chest Hospital Centre

Jan. 2003 – Jan. 2013 Member, Young Bar Association of the Province of Quebec (Canada)

Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2011 Expert Consultant for the independent non-profit consultancy firm The Innovation Partnership (TIP)

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)

Oct. 2007 – Jan. 2009 Member of the panel on “The Return on Investments in Health Research”, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Oct. 2003 – Sept. 2008 Member of the International Expert Group on Biotechnology, Innovation and Intellectual Property (McGill University)

Jan. 2004 – Jan. 2008 Associate Member of the Service de médecine génique du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Jan. 2002 – Jun. 2007 Member of the International Institute of Research in Ethics and Biomedicine (IIREB)

Mar. 2006 – Feb. 2007 Member of the External Working Group on the Registration and Disclosure of Clinical Trials Information (Health Canada)

Jun. 2003 – Apr. 2004 Coordinator of the Canadian Genetics and Life Insurance Task Force

Board Memberships (Scientific Journals)

Feb 2024 –  Member of the Editorial Board, Editorial Board, Scientific Reports

Dec 2022 –  Associate Editor, Frontiers in Pharmacology

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 –  Associate Editor, Frontiers in Genetics

Apr. 2012 –  Member of the Scientific Committee, Lex Electronica

Feb. 2011 – 2020 Member of the international Editorial Board of the scientific journal Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine (CPPM)

 Jan. 2018 – Guest Editor, Human Genetics, Series International Genomic Data Sharing                            

This content has been updated on April, 15 2026 at 10 h 57 min.