Maurice Dongier

Dr Maurice Dongier is a neuropsychiatrist, at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal, Canada.

He received his medical degree in Marseille in 1951 and then trained at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal (Canada), earning a diploma in psychiatry from McGill University in 1954.

After positions at the Université de Marseille and the Université de Liège (Belgium), he returned to McGill as director of the Allan Memorial Institute in 1971 and served as the chair of the Department of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1985. He's the grandfather of a magnificient collection of grandchildren.

In 2005 he was awarded an Emeritus Professorship in health sciences by McGill University.

His research in alcohol abuse and his leadership in alcohol abuse research at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre has won international acclaim.