Dr. Louise Pilote, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine at McGill University, where she holds a James McGill Chair. She is a practicing general internist and led the McGill Division of General Internal Medicine from 2006 to 2016. She has had the privilege to be a clinician scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center for the past 25 years.

Dr. Pilote is an internationally recognized sex and gender scientist, a leader in cardiovascular research and a pioneer in comparative effectiveness of cardiovascular drugs and devices using Big Data with a focus on sex differences. She has developed novel methodologies for measuring gender to evaluate its impact on health outcomes. Dr. Pilote leads the Gender Outcomes International Group to Further Well-being Development (GOING-FWD), a data science and personalized medicine project. 

Dr. Pilote brings her expertise in sex and gender sciences to bridge basic to epidemiological sciences through a translational outlook through the life span. Dr. Pilote strives to build capacity not only from a scientific discovery standpoint but also through advocacy and engagement with policymakers, and as a mentor to the next generation of scientists.