Dr. Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil assumed leadership of MICYRN in May 2018. He received his medical degree from the University Paris 5 - René Descartes in 1993 and a PhD in biological sciences at the University Paris 7 - Pierre et Marie Curie in 1995. He completed a fellowship in Neonatology in 1997 and a Master in Epidemiology in 2000. He was appointed professor of Pediatrics at the University Paris 11 in 1997. Thierry moved to Edmonton, Alberta, in 2003 to become the inaugural director of the Women and Children Health Research Institute (WCHRI) in 2006. In 2010, He was recruited as a senior scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and was the scientific director of the Clinical Research Unit at CHEO from 2011 to 2015. From 2016 to 2021, Thierry has been the section head of Neonatology at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Since May 2021, He dedicates most of his time to MICYRN (https://www.micyrn.ca/), expending capacities and providing services of an Academic Research.
Research Discipline: Clinical Research