Yves Joanette is a Professor of Cognitive Neurosciences and Aging at the Faculty of Medicine at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al as well as Laboratory Director at the Research Center of the Centre de recherche de l\u2019Institut universitaire de g\u00e9riatrie de Montr\u00e9al. He is currently Deputy Vice-Principal Research and Director of the Digital Health Consortium at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. He was until recently the Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research where he co-lead the\u00a0Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, as well as the Dementia Research Strategy. Dr Joanette played a major role in bringing Canada as member of many international initiatives, including three European collaborative initiative. He also contributed to the World Health Organization efforts both\u00a0in relation with the dementia global strategy as well as the global efforts in healthy ageing. Yves Joanette is Member and former Chair of the World Dementia Council.<\/p>\n
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Yves Joanette was a Scholar and Scientist of the Canadian Medical Research Council and has received many distinctions, including the Andr\u00e9-Dupont Award, and the Eve Kassirer Award for Outstanding\u00a0Professional Achievement. His scientific production includes nearly 300 peer-reviewed articles, 150 books and chapters and more than 1000 oral and poster presentation in meetings, including numerous invited lectures. Dr Joanette supervised more than 120 PhD and Master students, while welcoming many interns from Canada and around the world. Yves Joanette has been elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. The Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re de Lyon (France) and the University of\u00a0Ottawa (Canada) both presented him with an Honorary Doctorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1344,"template":"","country":[85],"class_list":["post-1347","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-canada-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n