Claude Laberge
Canadian physician-geneticist
Claude Laberge (born May 27, 1938) is a physician-geneticist and a Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval in Québec City, Québec. He is a pioneer in the field of human genetics.
Born in Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, Québec, he studied at the Collège des Jésuites, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Séminaire de Québec (1957), an M.D. from the Université Laval (1962). He completed his residency in pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario from 1962 to 1964. In 1967, he became a member of the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (Pediatrics). A year later, he completed his Ph.D. in Human and Medical Genetics (1968) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He then received certification in Pediatrics (1968) and Medical Genetics (1997) from the Collège des médecins, Québec.
He joined the Université Laval as an adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine in 1969, and by 1970 was an associate professor. In 1981, he became a full professor at the Department of Medicine and subsequently of Pediatrics in 1985. He held these positions at the Université Laval until he retired in 2013.
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