After completing his PhD in computer science and operations research at Université de Montréal, professor Louis-Martin Rousseau joined the Mathematics and Industrial Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal in 2003.

He was one of the first researchers to investigate the hybridization of classical operations research methods and constraint programming, which comes from artificial intelligence. His current research focuses on transportation logistics, scheduling and resource optimization in healthcare.

Nadia Lahrichi is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and industrial engineering at Polytechnique Montreal.

Her research is mainly focused towards applying modeling and operational research tools to improve patient flow in the healthcare system. She uses exact, metaheuristics and discrete event simulation approaches to tackle patient and resource scheduling problems. She actively collaborates with various organizations from the heath care sector to solve practical problems such as patient booking for chemo, radiotherapy treatments and diagnostic imaging, nurse and physician scheduling, operating room planning and scheduling or homecare planning.

From the Canadian Operational research society, professor Lahrichi has received the award for outstanding application of operational research for solving the home health care routing and scheduling problem.

First trained as an architect, Dr. France Légaré has practiced family medicine in Quebec since 1990 and is a full professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada). She is an internationally recognized leader in shared decision-making (SDM) and knowledge translation research. In 2005, she obtained her PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Annette O’Connor.

From June 2006 to May 2016, Dr. Légaré held the title of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care. As of June 1st 2016, she holds the title of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation.

Dr. Légaré was nominated PI/co-PI on 35 grants and Co-I on 49 grants in the past seven years. She has published more than 363 papers, 343 of which are PubMed indexed; her H index is 69 and she has > 25 086 citations (Google Scholar). In 2017, 2018 and 2019, she was listed as one of the top 1% most cited scientists worldwide (Clarivate Analytics), indicating that her work has been repeatedly judged by her peers to be of notable significance and utility. A SDM bibliometric analysis recently identified France Légaré as the person who has participated in the most studies (n=101) since 2009. Her research program aims at implementing shared decision making in clinical practices with a focus on home care and prenatal screening programs.

In addition to SDM, primary care and knowledge translation, she is also an expert in implementation science and scale-up science. With her colleagues she has developed several SDM interventions for various contexts and trained a large number of healthcare professionals. For example, she has trained more than 270 family physicians in SDM and optimal use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections. More recently, she trained more than 600 healthcare professionals in an interprofessional approach to SDM in home care.

Lastly, her team was the first to create an online inventory of SDM training programs, which is updated on a regular basis. All of her research initiatives can be consulted on http://www.decision.chaire.fmed.ulaval.ca/france-legare.

Catherine Régis is a full professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Montreal, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy (since 2013), co-responsible for the Hub santé –politique, organizations and law (H-POD) and founding member of the JusticIA research group (justice-ia.com). She is also a researcher at the Research Center in Public Law, at the Research Center of the University Hospital Center of the University of Montreal (CRCHUM) and at the Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique (OBVIA).

She holds a law degree from the University of Montreal, a master's degree in health law from the University of Sherbrooke, a certificate in clinical ethics from the University of Geneva and a doctorate in law (SJD) from the University from Toronto.

Professor Régis has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1999 and an accredited mediator. Recipient of several prizes, grants and subsidies, notably from the Canada Research Chairs program, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Quebec Research Funds, the Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie and the Georg Stellari Fund, she is regularly contacted by the health network as a consultant and trainer. She collaborates with several interdisciplinary and international research teams, notably in medicine, machine learning, management, engineering, public health and psychology.

She is a member of various committees in the health and social services sector, including that of the Ethics Committee from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the University of Montreal’s Health Data Science Committee. She is regularly sought out as a visiting professor in various countries, including France and Israel. His work, published in numerous national and international journals, focuses mainly on digital innovation in health, collaborative governance in health systems, the normative action of the World Health Organization and innovative models of medical practice.

Dr. John Kildea is a medical physicist at the McGill University Health Center and an assistant professor in Oncology at McGill University.

His research interests are focused on the carcinogenic effects of ionizing radiation for radiotherapy and space travel and the use of informatics techniques to improve the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of patients.

With radiation oncologist Dr. Tarek Hijal, Dr. Kildea co-leads the development of the Opal patient portal (opalmedapps.com). Opal was named Quebec e-Health solution of the year in 2019 by Le Point Santé et Services Sociaux and was awarded the prestigious 2019 Prix d’excellence–Coup de cœur des ministres of the Quebec Ministry of Health.