28 Facts About Alain Vadeboncoeur

Alain Vadeboncoeur is a Canadian emergency physician and science communicator living in Montreal.

Alain Vadeboncoeur is the son of the author Pierre Vadeboncoeur and Marie Gaboury, a Franco-Ontarian social worker.

Alain Vadeboncoeur completed his residency training in family medicine at the Universite de Montreal and obtained his license to practice family medicine in 1990.

Alain Vadeboncoeur was recognized as a specialist in emergency medicine in 2000.

Alain Vadeboncoeur was recruited by the Pierre-Boucher Hospital Center in Longueuil in 1990, where he became head of the department of emergency medicine.

Alain Vadeboncoeur was responsible for the coordination of medical services in Monteregie during the ice storm that hit Eastern Canada in 1998.

Alain Vadeboncoeur chaired the Quebec Association of Emergency Physicians from 1998 to 2000.

Alain Vadeboncoeur chaired the Table of Emergency Heads of Montreal, from 2001 to 2003.

Alain Vadeboncoeur was President of the Association of Emergency Medicine Specialists of Quebec from 2004 to 2008.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has been a member of several working groups of health professionals, most recently of the Interdisciplinary Emergency Response Task Force in Montreal.

Alain Vadeboncoeur was a member of various research networks in emergency medicine during his career, he was Scientific Director of a conference on emergency medicine organized by Quebec's federation of general practitioners in 1997 and participated in the organization of several other conferences, in Canada and elsewhere.

Alain Vadeboncoeur continues his research work and is a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Peer Review Committee.

Alain Vadeboncoeur is a reviewer for three scientific publications: the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has been teaching at the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Universite de Montreal since 2003, including as an associate clinical professor since 2009.

Alain Vadeboncoeur is one of the creators and the administrator of a course on the electrocardiogram.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has become an increasingly familiar presence in French-language Canadian media, both through his regular columns in several media and as a resource for journalists reporting on health issues.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has been commenting on health issues on his blog hosted by the website of the magazine L'Actualite since 2013.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has published texts on his blog on Rogers Group's Profession Sante Quebec publication since 2009.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has frequently acted as an expert medical consultant or collaborator for documentary series such as J'aurais donc du, docteur and Clinique roulante, as well as for informational programs, including Une pilule, une petite granule and RDI-Sante and variety shows.

Alain Vadeboncoeur has spoken repeatedly on the need to preserve a public health system, stressing in particular that a significant private component increases the costs of the system.

Alain Vadeboncoeur made this theme the subject of his 2012 book, Prive de soins, contre la regression tranquille en sante.

Since its founding in 2008, Alain Vadeboncoeur has been a member of the group Medecins quebecois pour le regime public de sante and its chairman since 2012.

In 2016, Alain Vadeboncoeur joined eight other Quebec personalities on a consultation tour on the future of Quebec called Faut qu'on se parle.

Alain Vadeboncoeur grew up surrounded by his four older brothers and sisters, as well as his parents.

Alain Vadeboncoeur's mother worked in hospitals in the Montreal area, as a social worker.

Alain Vadeboncoeur's father was a family physician in the community of Plantagenet, Ontario.

The Vadeboncoeur family has spent part of the summer at a cottage at Lac Nominingue in the Laurentians, since Alain was four years old.

Pierre Alain Vadeboncoeur was a hypochondriac and did not initially encourage his son to pursue a career in medicine.