Alain Beaudet, president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, has been appointed to serve a second five-year term.
Canada’s minister of health Leona Aglukkaq announced on 26 April that Beaudet had been reappointed to the job he first took on in 2008. “During his tenure, Dr. Beaudet has proven himself as a strong leader and a visionary in Canada and internationally,” said Aglukkaq. “He has spearheaded such transformative initiatives as the new Strategy for Patient-oriented Research, a research initiative that places patients at the heart of health research, and the reform of CIHR’s open programmes and peer review process.”
Before becoming CIHR president, Beaudet was the president of Quebec’s health research funding agency (FRSQ). During his career as a neuroscientist, he served as associate director of research at the Montreal Neurological Institute from 1985-1992 and taught at McGill University. He was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.
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