ASSOCIATION OF FACULTIES OF MECICINE OF CANADA
Dr. Bernard Jasmin Appointed as Vice President - Research

The AFMC is very pleased to announce that Dr. Bernard Jasmin has accepted the position of Vice President, Research, effective immediately. Dr. Jasmin obtained his PhD in 1988 from the Université de Montréal. Following postdoctoral training in Paris, France (Institut Jacques Monod et Institut Pasteur, 1988-90), he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Miami School of Medicine for an additional two years. In 1992, Dr. Jasmin was recruited as an Assistant Professor by the Department of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2000. In 1999, he was named founding Co- Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Neuromuscular Disease. From 2002-09, Dr. Jasmin was Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. In the spring of 2009, he was appointed Vice Dean, Research, for the Faculty of Medicine, a position he still occupies today.

While assuming various leadership responsibilities, Dr. Jasmin has maintained an internationally-recognized research program that focuses on deciphering regulatory pathways that control expression of synaptic proteins in both neuronal and skeletal muscle cells with an emphasis on studying cellular and molecular events relevant to the design of therapeutic interventions for several neuromuscular diseases and conditions. Over the course of his career, Dr. Jasmin has published more than 130 scientific articles and book chapters, mostly as Principal Investigator. The excellence of his work has not only been recognized by several awards but, in addition, by invitations to present at prestigious meetings and institutions around the world. Dr Jasmin has been a member of the AFMC Research and Graduate Studies Committee since 2009 and was named Chair in 2016.

Please join me in welcoming Bernard to the AFMC.

Geneviève Moineau
President and CEO