Permanent research staff
Valérie Boucher, scientific coordinator
Claire d’Assise Nduwamariya, research professional
Laurence Fruteau de Laclos, research professional
Anne-Julie Gagné, research professional
Isabelle Gagné, research professional
Sandrine Hegg-Deloye, scientific coordinator
Suzy Lavoie, research nurse
Alexandra Nadeau, scientific coordinator
Marianne Sabourin-Félix, administrative assistant

Research assistants
Coralie Beaulieu
Sarah Caissy
Julie Carrier
Emmanuelle Chartrand
Anthony Simard
Mélina Vachon

Graduate students

Valérie Boucher, master’s student (biomedical and clinical sciences)

Director: Marcel Émond    Co-director: Marie-Eve Lamontagne
Research projects:
– Acceptability of older patients’ self-assessment in the Emergency Department (ACCEPTED) – a randomized cross-over pilot trial
– Unreported incident delirium in older patients treated in the Emergency Department

Awards:
Joseph-Demers Master’s student award 2016 – 2017 – Université Laval
Master’s training award FRQ-S/SPOR
Student dissemination bursary: Axe Santé des populations et pratiques optimales en santé (2018)
Best poster presentations :
       Congress: 6e Journée de l’Axe SP-POS-CHU de Québec (2019)
       Congress: 5e Journée de l’Axe SP-POS-CHU de Québec (2018)
       Congress: Journées de la recherche en santé Université Laval (2018)

Laurence Fruteau De Laclos, master’s student (biomedical and clinical sciences)

Director: Marie-Josée Sirois   Co-director: Andréanne Blanchette
Research projects:
– Impact of physiotherapy services access on the functional status of community‐dwelling seniors after a minor injury
– Physical activity interventions to prevent mobility losses in prefrail seniors following a minor injury.

Charles Gariepy, MD, master’s student (epidemiology)

Director: Marcel Émond
Research projects:
– Portrait and trajectories of emergency care for geriatric patients with head trauma
Selective pre-reduction radiographies in Anterior Shoulder Dislocation: The Fresno-Quebec rule

Awards:
– Student award from the Association des Médecins d’Urgence du Québec (AMUQ) (2015)

Mathieu Groulx, master’s student (biomedical and clinical sciences)

Director: Marcel Émond    Co-director: Éric Mercier
Research project:
Clinical practice implementation assessment: continuous flow oxygen device (b-card) in prehospital cardiac arrests

Awards:
– Student award from the Fondation du CHU de Québec (2018)

Antoine Laguë, MD, master’s student (biomedical and clinical sciences)

Director: Marcel Émond
Research projects:
– Using the Bergman-Paris question to screen seniors in the Emergency Department
– Potential benefits of incentive spirometry following a rib fracture: a propensity-score analysis
– Asymptomatic bacterium in older delirious patient

Awards:
Canadian Frailty Network – 2016 Summer Student Awards Program recipient
2nd price for poster presentation – 35th annual congress of Association des Médecins d’Urgence du Québec (AMUQ) (2018)
Joseph-Demers Master’s student award 2019-2020 – Université Laval

Krishan Yadav, MD MSc, emergency medicine fellow

Director: Marcel Émond
Research projects:
– Serial Ottawa 3DY Assessments to Detect Incident Delirium in Older Emergency Department Patients
– Trauma care indicators and modifiers for major trauma in older adults; a Delphi study
– Elder abuse policy statement

Medical students / residents

Vincent Belhumeur, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
– 
Head injury in the elders with anticoagulation treated in the Emergency Department
Trauma team leaders in Canada: A national survey

 Myriam Carreau, medical student

Director: Marcel Emond   Co-director: Christian Malo
Research project:
Complications following thoracic drains installation in the emergency room in trauma patients


 Éloïse Corriveau, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
La Clinique des aînés : une transition innovante des soins pour aînés fragilisés – Éviter le retour à la case départ

Émile Fortier, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
Current practices of management for mild traumatic brain injuries with intracranial hemorrhage
– Assessment of predictors of deterioration in mild traumatic brain injury with intracranial hemorrhage at emergency department

Nicolas Fournier, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
Adapting the Canadian CT head rule age criteria for mild traumatic brain injury

 David Lachance-Perreault, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
A retrospective cohort study of the impact of age and post-intubation hypotension threshold on mortality
What is the impact of post-intubation hypotension on mortality and in-hospital length of stay?

 Raphaël Langevin, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
Cost-benefit analyses of frailty reduction in non-institutionalized seniors from the CETI cohort

 Marie-Pier Lanoue, resident

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
Influence of fear of falling on return to the emergency department and further falls in community-dwelling elderly presenting for minor trauma

Award:
– CAEP19 – Resident Research Abstract Award

Daniel Negreanu, medical student

Director: Christian Malo   Co-director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
Evaluation of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) to guide the orientation of patients with sepsis in the emergency department 

Véronique Paquet, medical student

Director: Marcel Émond
Research project:
Current practices of management for mild traumatic brain injuries with intracranial hemorrhage
– Assessment of predictors of deterioration in mild traumatic brain injury with intracranial hemorrhage at emergency department

Jean-Nicolas Tourigny, medical student

Director: Marcel Emond   Co-director: Christian Malo
Research project:
Validation of the updated BIG criteria