Medical Advisors

Dr Gail Ouellette

Medical Advisor

Gail Ouellette is a geneticist and a certified genetic counsellor. She is a co-founder and president-CEO of the Quebec Coalition of Orphan Diseases (Regroupement québécois des maladies orphelines, RQMO) and of the Rare Disease Information and Resource Centre. She is also coordinator of the Orphanet-Quebec project. She obtained her Ph.D. in molecular genetics at Université de Montréal. She did her postdoctoral studies in genetic epidemiology at the Centre for Human Genetics in Leuven, Belgium. She was a researcher at Algene Biotechnologies and Signal gene where she worked in gene discovery for complex diseases in founder populations. In 1999, she left the laboratory and the computer to train for a Master’s in Genetic Counselling at McGill University in order to do clinical genetics. She worked as a genetic counsellor at the Centre hospitalier universitaire of Sherbrooke and at Procréa Cliniques in Montreal. Since 2005, she has been involved with various patient organizations in Canada and co-founded the RQMO in 2010.