Simon Duchesne
ing., Ph.D.
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Simon Duchesne
ing., Ph.D.
Simon Duchesne, P.Eng., Ph.D., C. Dir., attended the Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston, ON) where he obtained his B.Eng. in Engineering Physics in 1993. Simon then held entry and mid-level management positions in the military and private sectors before returning to academia in 1999, obtaining his M.Sc. in Medical Physics and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University (Montreal, QC) in 2005. Following post-doctoral studies in medical imaging at INSERM (Rennes, FRA), he returned to Quebec City in 2007 where he founded the MEDICS Laboratory. He is now Full Professor in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Université Laval, deputy director of the Big Data Research Center, and scientific counsellor at the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé. Researcher at both the Quebec Heart and Lung institute and the CERVO Brain Research Center, his research, published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, center on the identification of biomarkers from imaging for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer‘s disease, Parkinson‘s disease, and temporal lobe epilepsy, and the elaboration of a computational model of the brain in order to track health and performance across the lifespan. Dr. Duchesne‘s research has been peer-funded notably by the Fonds de la Recherche Québec - Santé, the Ministère du Développement Économique, de l‘Innovation et de l‘Exportation du Québec, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council, the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada and the American Alzheimer‘s Association. Simon obtained his chartered director designation (C.Dir.) in 2021.
Medical resident 2014-2018 Project: Radiological reporting in dementia Current position: radiologist
Summer student 2016 Project: Patch-based segmentation After MEDICS lab: undergrade student in computer science
Summer student 2010 Project: White matter hyperintensities in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Current position: radiologist
Summer student 2012 Project: MRI quality control After MEDICS lab: master's student
Post doctoral fellow 2017-2020 Project: Machine learning approaches in MRI Current position: Research fellow at the University of Manitoba
Medical resident 2012-2014 Project: morphometry in Alzheimer's disease Current position: radiologist
M.Sc. graduate
M.Sc. graduate 2013-2016 Project: White matter in semantic dementias Current position: radiologist
Medical student 2022
Post doctoral scholar 2013-2016 Project: Cerebrovascular burden Current position: Faculty position at University of Calgary
Research professional 2013-2018 Project: Tech. MRI Current position: actuarial work
Research professional 2007-2010 Project: neuroinformatics Current position: technology consultant in private sector
Research professional 2008-2013 Project: neuroinformatics Current position: private sector
Post doctoral scholar 2018-2020 Project: Cerebrovascular image processing
Summer student 2010 Project: Neuropsychological profile of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) After MEDICS lab: undergrade student in psychology
Professionnelle de recherche 2019
Doctoral candidate 2011-2016 Project: Neurodevelopment and bipolar disorder
Medical resident 2014-2018 Project: Genetics of Alzheimer's disease Current position: radiologist
Research professional 2014-2016 Project: neuroimaging Current position: Genentec, private sector