Dr. Bertrand Lebouché

Dr. Bertrand Lebouché (MD, PhD) is a HIV and HCV Primary care specialist at the Chronic Viral Illness Service of the Glen Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), and a scientist conducting patient-oriented clinical research with people living with HIV and HCV and HIV prevention particularly for men who have sex with men. He is leading a research program with investigators from across Canada and France, to develop, validate and implement a new electronically administered patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for use in routine HIV care, to detect and help manage barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence that are relevant to both patients and clinicians. To administer electronically his e-PROM, he is actually adapting for HIV care a patient-conceived smartphone app (Opal) in use at the Cedars Cancer Centre of the McGill University Health Centre. He holds a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Chair in Innovative Clinical Trials in HIV care, awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.