Neurosurgeon (MD FRCSC)
Neuro-Oncologist
Researcher
Professor in Medicine
Author
Educator
See Dr. David Fortin's curriculum (Université de Sherbrooke)
Dr. David Fortin completed his medical and neurosurgery studies at the University of Sherbrooke. He then specialized in neuro-oncology at the University of Western Ontario for one year, followed by two years at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
Upon his return to the University of Sherbrooke in 2000, he founded a research laboratory focused on the treatment of brain tumors. It was in this context that he introduced a unique brain tumor treatment technique in Canada: intra-arterial chemotherapy with blood-brain barrier opening.
Dr. Fortin is a neurosurgeon and neuro-oncologist at the CIUSSS de l’Estrie – CHUS. He also works at the CHUS Research Center in neuroscience and oncology.
He is a full professor in surgery, radiobiology, and pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Sherbrooke.
He has authored over 130 publications and 160 scientific abstracts. He gives numerous conferences on national and international stages.
Dr. Fortin has received many distinctions: Mérite estrien in 2003, Personality of the Year in 2002, César Galéano Award for Best Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Sherbrooke from 2005 to 2010, Research Impact Award from the CHUS Clinical Research Center in 2012. In 2016, his team received the Best International Presentation Award at the prestigious Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Fortin was awarded Specialist of the Year 2018 for Quebec by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He was also one of three finalists for the Excellence Award from the Quebec College of Physicians in 2022.