CDTRP Research Connect - Dr. Chantal Bémeur & Amal Trigui

Title: Optimizing post-liver transplantation outcomes: targeting the muscle
This presentation is part of the CDTRP 2024 Research Connect Series. Learn more: cdtrp.ca/en/pu...
Dr. Chantal Bémeur is a nutrition specialist in relation to liver disease and its many complications. Professor Bémeur trained as a dietitian/nutritionist and completed her graduate studies and two post-doctoral fellowships in nutrition, focusing on conditions affecting the hepatic and nervous systems, such as hepatic encephalopathy and Leigh Syndrome French Canadian. Professor Bémeur's research activities are generally of a fundamental and clinical nature, including a collaboration with CHUM's Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology. As an expert member of the International Society on Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism, Dr. Bémeur has participated in the development of guidelines on nutrition and liver disease. She is also part of a team of Canadian experts who developed an evidence-based nutritional education guide collaborating with people with chronic liver disease and their caregivers. She received an award from the Ordre professionnel des diététistes du Québec in 2018 for her work on this guide. Dr. Bémeur has published several book chapters, 30 scientific articles and over 100 scientific abstracts. Dr. Bémeur's co-directs the HepatoNeuro Laboratory in the Cardiometabolic Axis of the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM). Several organizations, including the Donation and Transplantation Research Program of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research fund Dr. Bémeur's research.
Amal Trigui obtained her bachelor’s degree in medical biology in 2014 from the University of Sfax in Tunisia. In 2019, she obtained her master's degree in research in health sciences from the Université de Sherbrooke. She is currently a doctoral student in nutrition at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal. Her research project is taking place in the CHUM research center (CRCHUM), particularly in the Hepato-neuro laboratory where she is interested in malnutrition and sarcopenia before and after liver transplantation.