Melica Brodeur
Assistant professor, Department of OBGYN
Melica Brodeur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Department of Oncology at º«¹úÂãÎè. She is an attending Gynecologic Oncologist and a Principal Investigator at the Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research where she practices as a clinician-scientist. Â
She completed her medical degree at º«¹úÂãÎè following which she undertook her Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at the University of British Columbia. She pursued a subspecialty in Gynecologic Oncology at the Université de Montréal during which she supplemented her training through the Clinician-Investigator Program with a master’s in biomedical sciences working in the laboratory of Dr. Anne-Marie Mes-Masson. Her interests in translational research led her to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under the direction of Drs Britta Weigelt and Dmitriy Zamarin. Â
Her research focuses on understanding treatment response in gynecologic cancers and discovering new therapeutic targets and treatment strategies to overcome therapy failure. She co-leads the Gynecologic Oncology Research Laboratory with Dr. Walter Gotlieb at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. She was recently granted the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Early-Career Investigator Award. Her mission is to help improve the lives of patients and families affected by gynecologic cancers.Â