Leo Renaud

Biography

"Leo Renaud graduated in Medicine from the University of Ottawa in 1965. After clinical and basic research training at McGill University that included a PhD in Neurophysiology in Professor Kresimir Krnjevic’s lab, he joined McGill’s Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery in 1973 and was based at the Montreal General Hospital. As an MRC Scholar and a founding member of the Centre for Research in Neuroscience, he balanced his time between clinical neurophysiology (EEG and EMG clinics) and the development of an internationally recognized basic neuroscience team focused on neuropeptides and on synaptic transmission in hypothalamic neurosecretory neurons. Rising through the ranks, he achieved full Professorship at McGill in 1981. In 1990, he accepted the offer to assist in the development of clinical and basic neuroscience at the University of Ottawa as Director of Neurology and Neurosciences at the Civic Hospital site. After hospital merger, he continued at The Ottawa Hospital to mentor and support researchers in the Department of Medicine while continuing his own basic research in neurotransmission and neuropeptides as Senior Scientist (Neuroscience Program) and Associate Director of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Dr Renaud credits the efforts of many trainees, postdocs, colleagues and international visitors, and the sustained operating and salary support from granting councils for the successes attained during an exciting career in neuroscience."

Research Interest

Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neurological disorders