Top Researchers
Top Medicine Researchers at Université Laval for 2026
At Université Laval, recent work in Medicine spans operating room decision-making, rehabilitation, mental health, and neurocognitive assessment. Looking across the last year, the institution’s researchers have been publishing on topics that connect clinical care with measurement, prevention, and treatment planning.
The snapshot below highlights a diverse set of contributors whose papers reflect both highly specialized questions and practical concerns in patient care. From surgical technique to disability, autoimmune disease, and brain health, the collection offers a useful view of where medical research at Université Laval has been active recently.
Featured Researchers
Pierre‐Olivier Champagne
Pierre‐Olivier Champagne’s recent work at Université Laval centers on surgery and epidemiology, with a strong thread of endoscopic approaches in neurosurgical care.
Activity over the last year: 21 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Safety and efficacy of purely endoscopic microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: systematic review and single arm meta-analysis (Feb 2025)
- Fully endoscopic approach to cerebellopontine angle tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Nov 2025)
- The Use of Induction Chemotherapy in Olfactory Neuroblastoma: A Multi-institutional Series (Feb 2025)
Krista L. Best
Krista L. Best has focused on psychiatry and mental health, occupational therapy, and related clinical research on disability, stroke rehabilitation, and long COVID.
Activity over the last year: 26 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Canadian children and youth with disabilities are not meeting the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines: Cross-sectional results from the national physical activity measurement (NPAM) study for children and youth with disabilities (Apr 2025)
- Safety and effectiveness of the Walk ‘n Watch structured, progressive exercise protocol delivered by physical therapists for inpatient stroke rehabilitation in Canada: a phase 3, multisite, pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial (Jul 2025)
- The impact of long COVID on physical and cardiorespiratory parameters: A systematic review (Jun 2025)
Paul R. Fortin
Paul R. Fortin’s recent publications at Université Laval connect rheumatology with imaging and clinical pathology, especially in lupus, antiphospholipid syndrome, and autoimmune disease assessment.
Activity over the last year: 24 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Predictors of Mortality in Antiphospholipid Antibody–Positive Patients: Prospective Results From Antiphospholipid Syndrome Alliance for Clinical Trials and International Networking Clinical Database and Repository (Feb 2025)
- An educational tool to improve PREeclamPsia knowledge and Aspirin adheRence in lupus prEgnancies: the PREPARE trial (Jun 2025)
- MACHINE LEARNING CAN IDENTIFY AN ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY PATTERN THAT MAY RULE OUT SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE RHEUMATIC DISEASES (May 2025)
Alexis F. Turgeon
Alexis F. Turgeon’s work brings together neurology, emergency medicine, and epidemiology, including studies on traumatic brain injury, sepsis, and surgical outcomes.
Activity over the last year: 25 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Familiarity of the Surgeon-Anesthesiologist Dyad and Major Morbidity After High-Risk Elective Surgery (May 2025)
- Metabolomic in severe traumatic brain injury: exploring primary, secondary injuries, diagnosis, and severity (Jan 2025)
- Sepsis subtypes and differential treatment response to vitamin C: biological sub-study of the LOVIT trial (Jan 2025)
Joël Macoir
Joël Macoir is publishing on cognitive neuroscience and mental health, with recent studies focused on language testing, anomia, and verbal fluency in aging and dementia-related contexts.
Activity over the last year: 16 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- The TDQ-60 Tr—a Picture-Naming Test to Assess Anomia in Turkish Adults and the Elderly: Normative Data and Validation Study in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment (Jan 2025)
- Exploring Factors Affecting Verbal Fluency in Healthy Aging (Sep 2025)
- Adaptation and normative data of the cognitive assessment battery of language (BECLA-Tr) for the Turkish adult population (Jan 2025)
François Routhier
François Routhier’s research at Université Laval emphasizes occupational therapy and mental health, with recent attention to wheelchair use, pressure injuries, and mobility training.
Activity over the last year: 17 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Exploring the challenges in manual wheelchair operation for new users (Jan 2025)
- Personal risk factors for pressure injuries among wheelchair users: an umbrella review of new insights in 2024 (Jan 2025)
- Feasibility of an Interactive Video-Based Training Program for Learning and Reviewing Walking Aid Skills (Apr 2025)
Étienne L. Belzile
Étienne L. Belzile’s recent work spans surgery and rheumatology, including consensus guidance on hip labral tears and studies of knee and hip arthroplasty care.
Activity over the last year: 21 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Management of Labral Tears in the Hip: A Consensus Statement (Jan 2025)
- Topical Versus Systemic Tranexamic Acid to Reduce Blood Loss After Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty (Aug 2025)
- Biomechanical and clinical assessments of activities of daily living following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A scoping review (May 2025)
Vincenzo Di Marzo
Vincenzo Di Marzo’s recent publications at Université Laval explore pharmacology, neuroscience, and metabolism through cannabinoid signaling, stress resilience, and obesity-related biology.
Activity over the last year: 17 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Astrocytic cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes resilience by dampening stress-induced blood–brain barrier alterations (Feb 2025)
- The endocannabinoidomes: Pharmacological redundancy and promiscuity, and multi-kingdom variety of sources and molecular targets (May 2025)
- Anti-obesity effects of Oleoylethanolamide: Modulation of mitochondrial bioenergetics, endocannabinoidome and gut microbiome (May 2025)
What Université Laval's Medicine Community Is Working On
Across the most common subfields, Université Laval’s medical research community appears especially active in psychiatry and mental health, pathology and forensic medicine, surgery, epidemiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. That mix suggests a strong balance between clinical investigation and mechanistic inquiry, with researchers examining everything from operative care and treatment response to assessment tools, rehabilitation, and brain-related biology. The overall pattern points to a community working across both patient-facing questions and the underlying processes that shape diagnosis, recovery, and long-term outcomes.- Psychiatry and Mental health - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Surgery - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Epidemiology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
Taken together, these researchers show how broad medical scholarship at Université Laval can be: grounded in clinical practice, but often extending into rehabilitation, neuroscience, and population health. If you want to keep track of outputs like these, Resub can help streamline citation discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission preparation for your own research workflow.
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