Dr. Jean-Paul Collet (M.D., PhD)
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital, Director, Partnership Development &
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Dr. Collet is currently holding a joint appointment in Beijing China at Tiantan Hospital, Capital University, as Director of the Center for Autonomic Investigation and Brain Plasticity, which is part of the Advanced Innovation Centre for Human Brain Protection – and in Canada at University of British Columbia as pediatrician and senior Investigator. On-going projects: Vagus Nerve stimulation for brain plasticity; Knowledge transfer; Personalized Medicine with modern technology.
In the previous ten years, Dr. Collet’s team developed the concept of “personally meaningful outcome” to assess each individual’s perceived utility of healthcare interventions. The second stream of research focuses on neuroplasticity and child development to evaluate physical activity’s effect on the development of children and their families’ wellbeing.
Jean-Paul Collet was trained as a pediatrician in Lyon (France) and got a Masters’s in Health Economics (Lyon University). He also received a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University.
