Guy Breton is a radiologist and academic administrator. In 2010, he was named rector

Rector

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 of the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

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Breton received a B.A. from the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, and a M.D. in medicine in 1974 from Sherbrooke University. After serving a residency

Residency (medicine)

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 in diagnostic radiology at McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

, he joined the Department of Radiology, Radio-Oncology and Nuclear Medicine at Montréal in 1979, was promoted to full professor in 1994, and became head of the department in 1996. He has also served as president of the Association des radiologistes du Québec from 1987 to 1997 and in 2009 was awarded their Albert Jutras Prize.