Alain Vadeboncoeur MD, FRCPC

Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur is also the founding member of the Emergency Department at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), where he has served as chief since the department began in 1999. He created the team of MHI emergency doctors, co-directed renovations to the department in 2003, and planned its computerization in 2006. Having earned his medical degree from Université de Montréal in 1988, he received his certificate in family medicine in 1990 and specialty certification in emergency medicine in 2000.

Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur has been a clinical associate professor at Université de Montréal since 2009 in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine. An expert in emergency medicine, he was Chair of the Association des médecins durgence du Quebec (1998-2000) and the Association des specialistes en medecine durgence du Quebec (2004-2008). He is also interested in knowledge transfer, as he is active as a communicator and analyst for the media and co-hosted the TV show “Les doctors from 2010 to 2013.

Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur is involved in defending the public health care system as the founder of Medecins Quebecois pour le regime public (president since 2012), and in October 2012 he published an essay on the health care system entitled “Privé de sons.” Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur is the author of many scientific publications, book chapters, manuals, papers, popular articles, and seminar presentations. As the co-founder of the Groupe interuniversity de recherche sur les urgences (GIRU-FRQS) in 2001, he is also interested in research on service organization, care for seniors and pre-hospital services.