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Paul Brassard

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology

Paul Brassard
Contact Information
Email address: 
paul.brassard [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
(514) 340-8222 ext. 28373
Biography: 

Dr Brassard is a public health and preventive medicine physician with post graduate training in parasitology and epidemiology. He is an Associate professor of Medicine at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Montreal and a clinician investigator in Clinical Epidemiology at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Center and an associate member at the Lady Davis Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital.

He is currently developing a screening, prevention and promotion agenda focusing on the modern cancers touching the Inuit population of Canada, also looking into the natural history of inflammatory bowel diseases in Quebec, and conducting pharmacovigilance studies using large databanks to explore the exposure /disease relationship between commonly prescribed drugs (such as steroids, metformin or statins) and common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer and infectious diseases.

Current research: 
Cancer
Immunology
Respiratory diseases
Selected publications: 

Division: 
Experimental Medicine
Clinical Epidemiology, Data Science and Informatics
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