Dr. Christel Renoux, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, associate member in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and a researcher at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital, is the 2019 recipient of the Heart & Stroke’s John-J.-Day MD Award of Excellence.
Dr. Renoux received the $10,000 award, presented annually to the researcher from McGill University who received the highest evaluation in the grant-in-aid competition in cardiovascular research, during the Heart Quebec Event on November 5.
“I am pleased and honoured to have been selected for this award,” says Dr. Renoux. “It is gratifying to have one’s work recognized.”
Dr. Renoux is a neurologist from Lyon, France with expertise in multiple sclerosis and stroke as well as an epidemiologist. Following her MSc in Epidemiology from McGill, she obtained a PhD in Neurosciences (neuroepidemiology) from Lyon 1 University in France.
She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacoepidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill. She was appointed Assistant Professor in 2012. Her research focuses on neuroepidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology with a particular interest in cerebrovascular diseases.
Congratulations Dr. Renoux!
November 12 2019