Amorfix appoints Dr. Philippe Couillard to its Board of Directors
Amorfix Life Sciences announced that Philippe Couillard, MD, former Minister of Health and Social services for Quebec, has been appointed to its Board of Directors.
Dr. Couillard began his career as a neurosurgeon in 1985 and served as the chief of the department of Neurosurgery at St. Luc Hospital from 1989 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996, he co-founded and ran the department of Neurosurgery in Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. On his return to Canada in 1996, Dr. Couillard became a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sherbrooke and was both the director and chief surgeon of the department of Surgery at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke until 2003. He was elected to the Quebec National Assembly and served as Minister of Health and Social Services of Quebec from 2003 to 2008 – making him the longest serving health minister in that province since 1958. During his term in office, Dr. Couillard directed a number of major reforms of the Quebec healthcare system and established a bi-annual Quebec-France symposium on health. Dr. Couillard is currently a senior fellow in health law at McGill University and a partner with Persistence Capital Partners, a Montreal-based private equity fund dedicated to the healthcare sector.
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