Our mission and our team

Dr. Luc Bessette completed his medical training in 1980. After an internship at the Montreal General Hospital, affiliated with McGill University, he became a doctor in 1981. Dr. Bessette has an in-depth experience in both emergency and general medicine. He also oversaw the organization of three international congresses. In 1996, with the sponsorship of six Canadian universities, he organized the “Medicine 2001“congress, whose participants included international telemedicine organizations, the World Health Organization, and NASA. It was on this occasion that Dr. Bessette, as founding President, launched the Canadian Society of Telehealth.

A Health Editor for Radio Canada’s RDI news network between 2002 and 2004, Dr. Bessette also created a number of digital applications for managing health-related information. He holds several Canadian and American patents in medical data management technology and in November 2012, through the Quebec Superior Court, launched a legal challenge against the Quebec Ministry of Health and its Procurator General for counterfeiting his Canadian patents within the implementation of the Quebec Health Record.

As of April 2nd 2019, the Federal Court ruled in favor of Dr. Bessette, declaring the RAMQ and MSSS (https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/fr/item/366350/index.do) guilty of patent infringement and inciting the use of a counterfeit product to third parties. 

Find below a summary of the case:

http://www.smart-biggar.ca/en/articles_detail.cfm?news_id=1556

This litigation was resolved in 2021 by an agreement which satisfied all parties involved.

Dr. Mohamed Awad completed his studies in chemistry before being admitted into medicine at Sherbrooke University with a scholarship. He has diversified his medical interests through research in Otorhinolaryngology as well as emergency medicine and gastroenterology.

It is with joy and enthusiasm that he joins Créa-MeD the 23rd of May 2019.

After completing her medical degree at the university of Calgary, Dr. Mardinger moved to Montreal where she completed her residency training in Family Medicine at the Jewish General Hospital amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (2022). Driven by her strong interest in medical research, she also completed a M.Sc. in Medical Sciences remotely at the University of Calgary in parallel to her residency. Her thesis focused on surgical quality improvement and demonstrated the use of a novel software application to automate the laborious work of scoping reviews.

Of note, Dr. Mardinger has a particular interest in minor surgeries and brings with her over a year of surgical experience from before her residency training in Family Medicine. By offering a broad range of minor procedures in her practice, Dr. Mardinger hopes to help patients avoid long wait times for specialist referral. There are many benefits of procedures performed by general practitioners, including cost effectiveness, decreased waitlist volumes, and improved patient satisfaction. This also allows our specialist colleagues to manage a higher volume of urgent referrals.

Dr. Rousseau is a graduate of McGill University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with a minor in Computer Science (2008), followed by a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (2013). His undergraduate medical training was completed at McGill University with an M.D.,C.M. granted in 2016 before moving to The University of Toronto for residency training in Family Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital (2018). He subsequently completed a Fellowship in the Family Medicine Clinician Scholar Program at McGill University (2019).

 

Throughout his extensive training, Dr. Rousseau has developed an expertise in medical research, with a focus on the development of mobile health applications and technologies. One of his interests is the development and integration of Artificial Intelligence technology in medicine, with the goal of improved patient care and outcome.