Isabelle Bourdeau is a Full Professor of Medicine at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and a researcher at the CHUM research center since 2004. She obtained her certification as a specialist in endocrinology and metabolism in 2000. She did post-doctoral training in genetics of endocrine tumors and adrenal gland diseases under the supervision of Dr. Stratakis at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
She has been funded by the FRQ-S since 2004 as a Junior and Senior Clinical Scientist. She conducts translational research on adrenal gland tumors. Dr. Bourdeau is the author of over 100 scientific articles and book chapters. She is the director of the interdisciplinary adrenal tumor team at the CHUM which is recognized by the Ministry of Health as a quaternary center in Quebec. Since 2009, she is the director of the adrenal gland tumor biobank at the CHUM.