Congratulations to our 2016 President's Award Winner

Jacques Lacroix is professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal. He is the director of the Clinician Investigator Program, Université de Montréal. His main topics of research are transfusion medicine, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and pediatric trauma. He wrote 231 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index, 53; 11498 citations), 93 chapters, a textbook in pediatric critical care medicine, and 274 abstracts, posters and free papers. He gave 284 invited lectures across the world, including 150 outside Canada. He received more than $53 millions from academic granting agencies. He is the chairman of a research group on transfusion medicine in pediatrics. He completed two large randomized controlled trials, the TRIPICU study (N Engl J Med 2007;356:1609-19) and the ABLE study (N Engl J Med 2015;372:110-8), and he is presently conducting the ABC-PICU trials (NCT01977547) with Marisa Tucci and Phil Spinella. Many international organizations have sought his expertise (American NIH, British NIH, Société de réanimation de langue française, Society of Critical Care Medicine, etc.).