Biographie du directeur – Neuroéthique

Research unit director

Director

Éric Racine, PhD

Director, Neuroethics research unit
Associate IRCM Research Professor
Assistant professor, Department of Medicine (accreditation in social and preventive medicine), Université de Montréal
Associate member, Department of Medicine (Division of Experimental Medicine), and adjunct professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Affiliate member, Biomedical Ethics unit, McGill University

Dr. Racine’s research is designed to improve the ethical aspects of quality of care, research practices and public communications in the domain of clinical and basic neuroscience. Various approaches and research methods, such as qualitative interviews, content analysis and media studies, are used to develop ethical approaches in health care and research. For example, some research projects propose ethical approaches to end-of-life decision-making for patients with severe neurological conditions, while others examine and attempt to improve the quality of information available in the media on neurological conditions and research methods in neuroscience.

Dr. Racine holds a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Degrees and relevant experience

PhD in applied human sciences - bioethics, Université de Montréal (2004)
Postdoctoral fellowship, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA (2004-2006)

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