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Louise Pilote

Louise Pilote
Contact Information
Address: 

RI-MUHC, 5252 de Maisonneuve site

Email address: 
louise.pilote [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Biography: 

Dr. Louise Pilote is a member of the AOC and the ACT Sex and Gender-Based Analysis Champion. She is a Professor of Medicine at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University and holds the Distinguished James ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Chair. She is the Deputy Director of the Research Institute of the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University Health Centre, co-founder of the Canadian Organization for Sex and Gender Sciences, and co-chair of the Health Canada scientific advisory committee on women’s health care products. She is a sex and gender scientist who developed a gender measure to assess the impact of gender on cardiovascular outcomes, which is used internationally, and one of the first to use Canadian administrative databases to conduct a registry trial on report cards. She also conducts comparative effective studies to assess sex differences in the safety and effectiveness of cardiac drugs and devices to supplement evidence-based trials. She has 350 publications, and her h-index is 83.

Going Forward for Gender in Health

Group: 
Associate member
Research areas: 
Global Health
Public Health
Non-communicable Diseases
Specialization: 

comparative effectiveness; sex differences in cardiovascular diseases; outcomes research; cardiovascular epidemiology; pharmacoepidemiology

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Media availability: 
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Language(s) spoken: 
English
French
Language(s) written: 
English
French
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