Patrick Archambault
Dr. Archambault is an emergency physician and intensivist at the Centre de santé et de services sociaux (CSSS) Alphonse-Desjardins - CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis.
Dr. Patrick Archambault obtained his medical degree from the Université Laval in 2000 and completed his post-graduate training to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as an emergency medicine specialist at Université Laval in 2005. He was awarded a McLaughlin Fellowship bursary by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval and, in 2007, completed a Royal College subspecialization in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Archambault graduated with honours from the master’s program in clinical research at Université Laval in 2007 and the Royal College awarded him a certificate of completion of the clinician investigator program. During his master's studies, Dr. Archambault studied the negative impact of etomidate on the production of cortisol in traumatic brain injuries. In October 2008, Dr. Archambault was awarded a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) CADRE postdoctoral fellowship scholarship within André Lavoie’s REISS program, "Performance of a Continuum of Services in Trauma". He completed training in Knowledge Translation under the direction of France Légaré, André Lavoie and Jean Lapointe. Dr. Archambault's projects have studied the implementation of a wiki reminder system to help physicians caring for critically ill trauma patients share evidence-based therapeutic protocols.
His research interests include knowledge translation, evidence-based medicine, information technologies, computer decision support systems, social media, wikis, critical care and emergency medicine, and traumatic brain injuries.