Dr Maurice McGregor

Maurice McGregor, MB, BCh, MD, FRCP(C), FRCP(Lond), FACC.

Maurice McGregor trained in Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and following military service in World War ll, studied Cardiology in London, England. From 1950 he was a clinician, teacher, and researcher at his Alma Mater until 1957 when he joined the faculty of McGill University in Montréal, Canada. He has served terms as Head of Cardiology, and Physician in Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Montréal, and as Dean of Medicine and Vice Principal of McGill University. He has also served terms as Bethune Exchange Professor at Peking Medical College (1973), and as Dean of Medicine of his alma mater (1984-87).

He has published over 180 articles, chiefly in the fields of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology, medical education and health policy.

Dr. McGregor has had experience as both a consumer and a producer of HTAs and Clinical Practice Guidelines, the former as a member of numerous hospitals’ Governing Boards, and the latter as the founding President of Quebec’s HTA agency, the Conseil d’évaluation des technologies de la santé du Québec (1988 to 1994), as a founding Board member of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment, and as Chair and Editor of Canada's Guidelines for the Management of Breast Cancer (1994-98). He is a Cardiologist, and a Prof Emeritus at McGill University, and is Chair of the Technology Assessment Unit of the McGill University Health Centre.