Marie-Chantal Fortin MD, PhD, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Clinic
University of Montreal
Researcher, Nephrologist, CRCHUM

Marie-Chantal Fortin, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.(c) is a transplant nephrologist at the Centre Hospital de University de Montréal (CHUM), a researcher at the Research Center of the CHUM and an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University de Montréal. She received her medical degree from the University de Sherbrooke. She completed her nephrology residency at the University de Montréal. She has completed a PhD in bioethics in 2008 at the University de Montréal.

She is also a researcher within the Canadian National Transplant Research Program (CNTRP) and the co-leader of the Core 4 (the patient-researcher partnership platform). Her research interests are related to transplantation ethics and patient and researcher partnership in research and clinical care. She chairs the ethics committee of the Canadian Society of Transplantation and she is a member of the ethics committee of Transplant Québec, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Blood Services and the Collège des medicine du Québec. Finally, she is also a research scholar of the FRQS.

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