Biography
Dominique Rouleau studied medicine at the University of Montreal. She then completed two fellowships and a master's degree in biomedical science and did several months of fellowship in Europe in 2008 and 2012.
She is an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Montreal and an orthopedic surgeon at CIUSSS NÎM since 2008. As a clinical researcher, her research program is aimed at improving the outcomes of patients with upper extremity trauma. She is working on improving surgical methods but, for the past 5 years, she has been studying factors related to chronic pain in her patients in relation to neuroinflammation.
She has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of the American and European Associations of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and is secretary of the Canadian Association of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. She has received several research grants and her latest randomized study won the prestigious Canadian Robin Richards Award.
