After working in France for well over a decade, he moved to Montreal and became a physician member of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Jewish General Hospital, as well as a senior investigator in its research institute, the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research.[1][4]
He is a Full Professor of Medicine, in the Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Experimental Medicine at McGill University since 2015,[1][5] and in September 2015, he was awarded the Joseph Kaufman Chair in Geriatric Medicine.[4][2]
He co-presides the Quebec Committee on the implantation and monitoring for the proper use of antipsychotic drugs amongst the elderly in nursing homes (CHSLD) across the province.[3]
He founded and is the current chief executive officer of Biomathics, an international research consortium on biomathematics applied to human systems modeling.[3] Additionally, he is the founder and current president of the Canadian Gait Consortium, which is a pan-Canadian network of clinicians and researchers working on gait disorders.[3]
In 2018, he was the presided the Scientific Committee of the Canadian Geriatrics Society Congress in Montreal.[3]
He is also an active member of the Arts & Health Commission of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,[3] where he conducted a study confirming that museums can be important actors in illness prevention, particularly amongst the elderly.[6]
