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Dr. Genevi猫ve Bernard is a pediatric neurologist and scientist at the Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital, the 黑料不打烊 University Health Center (MUHC) and MUHC Research Institute, and an Associate Professor at 黑料不打烊 University, in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, an associate member of the Department of Human Genetics and a member of the Division of Medical Genetics at the MUHC.鈥疭he is the recipient of the Research Scholar Junior 1 salary award from the Fonds de Recherche du Qu茅bec en Sant茅 (FRQS) (2012-2016), the Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator salary award (2017-2022) and the Research Scholar Senior salary award from the FRQS (2022-2025). In 2020, Dr. Bernard won the Maude Abbott Prize, which recognizes outstanding female faculty at an early career stage who have excelled and demonstrated leadership in education, research or administration. In 2019, she won the鈥疭pecialist of the Year Award (region 04) from the Canadian鈥疪oyal鈥疌ollege鈥痮f Physicians and Surgeons.鈥疍r. Bernard鈥檚 laboratory (MyeliNeuroGene Lab) focuses on translational research in leukodystrophies, from gene identification to pathophysiological mechanisms and pre-clinical studies to patients and families derived outcomes and natural history studies. She is the site principal investigator of several industry sponsored clinical trials.鈥疕er team, together with her international collaborators, discovered several disease-causing genes, including three genes responsible for 4H leukodystrophy. She led the largest international studies on clinical, radiological and genetic characterization of 4H leukodystrophy.鈥疘 am the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation, one of the largest foundations of its kind in the world. Dr. Bernard is the first woman, the first Canadian and the youngest individual in this position. She is also a board member of the Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease Foundation, the Yaya Foundation Scientific and Clinical Advisory Council and the Canadian representative on several international consortia, including the Global Leukodystrophy InitiAtive (GLIA).鈥�