Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) 4 Members

Québec

Members of Council

Dr. Elstein received her MD from the Université de Montréal and trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at McGill University. She completed a research fellowship in molecular cardiology at the University of Toronto Center for Cardiovascular Research. While in Toronto she also completed clinical fellowships in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and in echocardiography. Dr. Elstein is an associate physician at the McGill University Health Centre. She is actively involved in general cardiology and is Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic for Inherited Cardiomyopathies. Her clinical research is primarily in the area of familial cardiomyopathies. More

He did graduate studies in physical chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, QC He received his medical degree from Université Laval and completed his surgery training at the Université Laval with rotations in Boston, USA, and Montreal. He did a travelling scholarship in gastric surgery at the National Cancer Centre in Tokyo, Japan. He became a member of the Royal College in 1997 and since 2002 has been active with the Royal College on the General Surgery Examination Board, where he was the chair for five years.

Members-at-large

She practised internal clinical medicine for 10 years in western Québec, in Rouyn-Noranda, where she trained internal medicine students in postdoctoral training from the Université de Montréal. Subsequently, she worked as a clinician in internal medicine at the Centre hospitalier régional de Hull, where she trained doctoral students in internal medicine from McGill University. Later, she became medical advisor at the Medical Expertise Division of the Government of Canada, where she would be called upon as an expert witness for the Crown at the Pensions Appeals Board and later the appeal division of the Social Security Tribunal. She has always demonstrated great interest in retaining medical skills and the future of medical education.

After graduating, he was recruited by the CIUSSS-MCQ. He practises general urology. Additionally, he is involved in medical education. He is the clinical lecturer at the Université de Montréal’s Mauricie Campus as well as a lecturer at UQTR. He also teaches courses at the preclinical level to medical students. He established the urology section of the operating room nurse training online courses.

During her Master’s degree, she was involved in teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She currently works as a pediatric emergency physician at UP centre d'urgences pediatriques in Brossard, where she helped develop the simulation and multidisciplinary teaching rounds curricula. She also works part time in neonatology at Saint Mary’s Hospital and is a clinical educator for rotating residents and medical students from McGill University. She has a passion for medical education and hopes to establish novel and effective ways to teach students.

She is a clinical teacher at the Université de Sherbrooke and in charge of the first-year undergraduate education in a distributed medical training program in Saguenay. She has been a CPD committee member at the Association Québécoise de Chirurgie for many years, and is also a management committee member at the Association Canadiennes des Chirurgiens Généraux where she acts as a Quebec representative and chair of the workforce committee. She is also part of a team responsible for the continuum of care in general surgery at the Magdalen Islands, where she is from. She is a member of the Royal College Regional Advisory Committee for Region 4.

Representative — Collège des médecins du Québec

Holding a master’s degree in bioethics from McGill University, Dr. Maniatis is particularly interested in the ethical issues surrounding medical assistance in dying and prioritization of access to critical care in a pandemic context. In addition to co-chairing one of the research ethics committees at the MUHC since 2004, he also worked as a clinical ethicist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute from 2002 to 2016.

As an associate professor of medicine at McGill University, he has been the director of the internal medicine residency program for over 13 years. Dr. Maniatis has been a physician consultant for the Medical Education Division at the Collège des médecins du Québec since January 2022.

Since the start of his career, Dr. Maniatis has been driven by a desire to contribute to the bodies that regulate the practice of medicine. An active member of the Royal College, he has been a member of the Council and the ethics committee, as well as Chair for the Specialty Committee in Internal Medicine. From 2013 to 2019, Dr. Maniatis also chaired the Residency Accreditation Committee. A meticulous and pragmatic individual, he has been an external reviewer for the accreditation of numerous residency programs across Canada.

CPD Educator and Representative — Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec

CPD Educator

Representative – Fédération des étudiants en médecine du Québec

Representative – Fédération des médecins résidents du Québec

He is committed to medical resident’s advocacy in Quebec, particularly their well-being and academic and professional lives.

University Representative

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Eleanor Elstein, MD, CSPQ, FRCPC
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