ABOUT US

Welcome to MyHealthCheckup.com, a collaboration between the McGill Cardiovascular Health Improvement Program and Clinemetrica Inc. Information provided on this site is generated by a team of experienced health experts and overseen by an editorial team consisting of medical internist Dr. Steven Grover, exercise physiologist Dr. Ilka Lowensteyn, registered nurse Sylvie Marchand, and statistician Louis Coupal. Please note that the information provided on MyHealthCheckup.com is designed to support, not replace, the relationship between the users and their physician.

The McGill Cardiovascular Health Improvement Program (CHIP)

CHIP is a multidisciplinary program offering the highest standard of care for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. Our mission is to help prevent the development of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer in those at risk, as well as ensure that those who are already affected are able to improve their long-term health and prognosis. Through education, individualized exercise programs, counselling, pharmacological intervention, and psychosocial support, our goal is to reduce an individual's modifiable risk factors and improve their quality of life. CHIP staff members are also committed to doing internationally-recognized research to further the knowledge surrounding heart disease prevention and rehabilitation.

Clinemetrica Inc.

Founded in 1989 by faculty and research staff from the Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Montreal General Hospital and McGill University, Clinemetrica is a fully bilingual Contract Research and Corporate Health Organization applying the highest academic standards while meeting the needs of its clients in government, industry and business.

MyHealthCheckup Editorial Board

• Steven Grover, MD, MPA, FRCPC

  Dr. Steven A. Grover is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care at The Montreal General Hospital and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University. After graduating with a medical degree at McGill University, he completed his post-graduate education at the University of California at Los Angeles, McGill University, and Harvard Medical School. He then received his research training at the Brigham & Women's Hospital while completing a Master's of Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dr. Grover's research team developed the validated and published disease simulation models that are used on the MyHealthCheckUp Web site.

• Ilka Lowensteyn, PhD

  Dr. Ilka Lowensteyn is a Medical Scientist at the Centre for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment at the McGill University Health Centre and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at McGill University. She is also the Director of Clinical Research for the Cardiovascular Health Improvement Program (CHIP), which is the cardiac rehabilitation program of the McGill University teaching hospitals. After graduating with a doctoral degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Miami, she completed an NHRDP post-doctoral fellowship at McGill University.

• Sylvie Marchand, RN

  Sylvie Marchand is a registered nurse with over 30 years of clinical and research experience. Her main areas of practice are cardiometabolic disease and lifestyle changes.

• Louis Coupal, MSc

  Mr. Louis Coupal is responsible for outcome evaluation at the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care at the Montreal General Hospital. Mr. Coupal holds a MSc. in applied statistics from McGill University and has been involved with the Division of Clinical Epidemiology for more than twenty years. He has been associated with the development of models predicting the clinical and economic impacts of primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and of models reproducing the natural history of prostate cancer.

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An unrestricted grant was provided from Pfizer Canada for 2007/2008.

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This site was last updated: July 23 2009