MUSÉE - Key Persons

Anne Charpentier

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Member of the Board of Directors
Administrator / Director, Montreal Botanical Garden, Space for Life

Antonin Caron

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Member of the Board of Directors
Administrator / Manager - Access, Health Policy and Government Relations ( Quebec ), Roche Diagnostics

Arthur Frappier was a teacher and school principal in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield for twenty years. A talented artist, he was also the Cathedral's organist, the local brass band's director, and a music teacher. Bernadette Codebecq, Armand Frappier's mother also came from a family of teachers. Her father even founded a model school and she taught school, as did her four sisters.

Bernard-Taylor François

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Program Coordinator, Moderator

Capucine Duval

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Scientific Moderator / Student in the Science Program in Pharmacology With a Minor in Neuroscience

Christelle Sachot

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Scientific Content and Programme Development Administrator

Christian Settano - Chairman

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Chairman of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
Chairman of the BOARD of DIRECTORS / Chief Financial Officer, Business Development Bank of Canada - BDC

Claudia Bélanger

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Operations and Animation Administrator

David Sansfaçon

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Member of the Board of Directors
Corporation Treasurer / Deputy Ombudsman, Royal Bank of Canada

Dr. Armand Frappier

Armand Frappier was born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, on November 26, 1904. He was the oldest of eight children. His parents are Arthur Alexis Frappier et Bernadette Codebecq. Armand Frappier was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine on May 30, 1930, at the Université de Montréal. This document is a duplicate of the original diploma; it was issued on June 30, 1994.©Musée de la santé Armand-Frappier Armand Frappier's children ©Musée de la santé Armand-Frappier It is the admirable work and the relentless work of a great man that underlies the vocation of the Musée de la santé Armand-Frappier. Behind the facade of the institution lie the dreams and accomplishments of a passionate scientist who has dedicated his life to research and the health of the community. What is left of Dr. Armand Frappier's legacy today? The hard work of Dr. Armand Frappier is an important part of our history. By making vaccines available to the public against infectious diseases that ravaged populations at the time, such as polio, influenza, and measles, he changed the course of our lives. Did you know that he dreamed of setting up a museum in Montreal to raise awareness of preventive medicine?

Dr. Elie Asselin

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Professor

Dr. Télesphore Parizeau

Dr. Télesphore Parizeau had himself studied at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. In the thirties, Quebec was unable to offer a more complete education to its graduates. The young Dr. Frappier had to look elsewhere - to the place where the development of science was beginning to accelerate - in order to acquire the knowledge he needed to attack tuberculosis. His studies at the University of Rochester In the early 1930s, a grant from the Rockfeller Foundation opened doors for him in the American laboratories. Armand Frappier went to the University of Rochester, a rich and well-equipped establishment, financed by Kodak, to study microbiology. Compared to the Université de Montréal which was poor and decrepit, and where research was poorly developed - the contrast was enormous. Instead of being discouraged, Armand Frappier told himself that he would have a stimulating challenge in order to improve things when he returned home! During this learning period in the United States, he interned in the microbiology laboratories of several renowned researchers, many of whom were staunchly opposed to the BCG vaccine. His trip to the Institut Pasteur