• Assistant Professor, Psychiatry/Neurology, McGill University, 1984-1991
• Associate Professor, Psychiatry/Neurology, McGill University, 1991-1996
• Full Professor, Psychiatry/Neurology, McGill University, 1996-Current
• James McGill Chair, Medicine, McGill University, 2000-Current
• Co-Director, Sackler Program for Epigenetics, 2008
• Adjunct Senior Investigator, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences A*STAR (Singapore), 2008

• Neurooendocrinology
• Development
• Stress
• Reproduction
• Metabolism
• Cognitive function
• Gene expression
• Hormones
• Hormone receptor biochemistry
• Receptor signalling
• Epigenetics
• Gene expression
• Parental behaviour
• Development

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