Hélène Boisjoly

After obtaining degrees in Medicine and Ophthalmology from Université de Sherbrooke, Hélène Boisjoly specialized in Cornea at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Schepens Eye Research Institute, affiliated with Harvard University. She later obtained an MPH degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Clinician-scientist at Université Laval before moving to Université de Montreal, she was Scientific Director of the Quebec Vision Health Research Network. Her research interests include ocular viral diseases, functional visual outcomes, and epidemiology of eye diseases. A full professor at Université de Montréal, she served as Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology (2000-2008), as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (2011-2020), and now as member of the Centre Présence Médecine Intégrative and of the Board of Directors of Université de Montréal. She is also on the Board of directors of Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal. Elected at the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, she is recipient of the Order of Canada, and of Lifetime Achievement Awards from Université de Sherbrooke, the Canadian Ophthalmological Society, and the Harvard Ophthalmology Department.