Portrait of Catherine Régis

Catherine Régis

Associate Academic Member
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Full Professor, Université de Montréal
Research Topics
Deep Learning
Online Learning

Biography

Catherine Régis is a full professor of law at Université de Montréal and the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy. She is also an associate academic member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, where she holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and the director of Social Innovation and International Policy at IVADO.

Régis is involved in a number of international initiatives, including the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), where she serves as an expert member for their Responsible AI Working Group, a group she also co-chaired from 2021 to 2023. She leads HAICU (Human-centred AI+ for/by Colleges and Universities) for the U7+ Alliance, a coalition of more than fifty universities from around the world. Régis helped draft the Montréal Declaration on Responsible AI as a member of its scientific committee. Her work focuses on global AI governance, the regulation of AI in health care systems, and the integration of human rights approaches in AI.

Current Students

Maelenn Corfmat
PhD - Université de Montréal
Eve Gaumond
PhD - Université de Montréal
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Publications

Medical Doctors in Health Reforms
Jean-Louis Denis
Sabrina Germain
Catherine Régis
Gianluca Veronesi
Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflec… (see more)tions on participation since the inception of publicly funded healthcare systems, they show how the status of doctors affects change.
2022-01-28
(published)
doi.org
Interprofessional collaboration and health policy: results from a Quebec mixed method legal research
Marie-Andree Girard
Catherine Régis
Jean-Louis Denis
2021-05-06
Journal of Interprofessional Care (published)
doi.org
Interprofessional collaboration and health policy: results from a Quebec mixed method legal research
Marie-Andree Girard
Catherine Régis
Jean-Louis Denis
ABSTRACT Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is central to effective care. This practice is structured by an array of laws, regulations an… (see more)d policies but the literature on their impact on IPC is scarce. This study aims to illustrate the gap between the texts and clinicians’ knowledge of the legal framework using an anonymous web-based survey. The survey, sent to nurses and physicians in Quebec, Canada, focused on the IPC legal framework, legal knowledge sources and IPC perceptions or beliefs. The primary outcome was to determine the gap between the law and understanding of the law. The secondary outcome was to identify legal knowledge sources for clinicians in Quebec. A total of 267 participants filled in the survey. For knowledge acquisition, 40% of physicians turned to insurers whereas 43% of nurses turned to their regulatory body. Only 30% of physicians correctly identified what activity is reserved for physicians while 39% of nurses correctly identified their reserved activity. Regarding legal perceptions, 28% of physicians and 39% of nurses thought IPC could increase their liability. These participants have a higher tendency to name liability-related issues as barriers to IPC. These results show an important discrepancy between clinicians’ knowledge about law and policies, and the actual texts themselves. This gap can lead to misinterpretations of the law by clinicians, ineffective policy changes by policymakers and can perpetuate ineffective implementation of IPC.
2021-05-06
Journal of Interprofessional Care (published)
doi.org
Correction to: The patient advisor, an organizational resource as a lever for an enhanced oncology patient experience (PAROLEonco): a longitudinal multiple case study protocol
Marie-Pascale Pomey
Michèle de Guise
Mado Desforges
Karine Bouchard
Cécile Vialaron
Louise Normandin
Monica Iliescu‐Nelea
Israël Fortin
Isabelle Ganache
Catherine Régis
Zeev Rosberger
Danielle Charpentier
L. Bélanger
Michel Dorval
Djahanchah Philip Ghadiri
Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay
A. Boivin
Jean-François Pelletier
Nicolas Fernandez
Alain M. Danino
2021-01-14
BMC Health Services Research (published)
doi.org
The patient advisor, an organizational resource as a lever for an enhanced oncology patient experience (PAROLE-onco): a longitudinal multiple case study protocol
Marie-Pascale Pomey
Michèle de Guise
Mado Desforges
Karine Bouchard
Cécile Vialaron
Louise Normandin
Monica Iliescu‐Nelea
Israël Fortin
Isabelle Ganache
Catherine Régis
Zeev Rosberger
Danielle Charpentier
L. Bélanger
Michel Dorval
Djahanchah Philip Ghadiri
Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay
A. Boivin
Jean-François Pelletier
Nicolas Fernandez
Alain M. Danino
2021-01-04
BMC Health Services Research (published)
doi.org
Analyzing the Contribution of Ethical Charters to Building the Future of Artificial Intelligence Governance
Lyse Langlois
Catherine Régis
2021-01-01
Reflections on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity (published)
doi.org
Enjeux juridiques propres au modèle émergent des patients accompagnateurs dans les milieux de soins au Québec (Legal Issues Arising from the Emerging Model of Accompanying Patients in the Quebec Healthcare System)
Léa Boutrouille
Catherine Régis
Marie-Pascale Pomey
2021-01-01
SSRN Electronic Journal (published)
doi.org
Recommandations pratiques pour une utilisation responsable de l’intelligence artificielle en santé mentale en contexte de pandémie
Carl-Maria Mörch
Pascale Lehoux
Marc-Antoine Dilhac
Catherine Régis
Xavier Dionne
La pandémie actuelle a provoqué une onde de choc dont les conséquences se font sentir dans tous les aspects de notre vie. Alors que la sa… (see more)nté physique a été généralement au cœur de l’attention scientifique et politique, il est devenu clair que la pandémie de COVID-19 a influé significativement sur la santé mentale de nombreux individus. Plus encore, elle aurait accentué les fragilités déjà existantes dans nos systèmes de santé mentale. Souvent moins financé ou soutenu que la santé physique, le domaine de la santé mentale pourrait-il bénéficier d’innovations en intelligence artificielle en période de pandémie ? Et si oui comment ? Que vous soyez développeur.e.s en IA, chercheur.e.s ou entrepreneur.e.s, ce document vise à vous fournir une synthèse des pistes d’actions et des ressources pour prévenir les principaux risques éthiques liés au développement d’applications d’IA dans le champ de la santé mentale. Pour illustrer ces principes, ce document propose de découvrir quatre cas fictif, à visée réaliste, à partir desquels il vous sera proposé de porter attention aux enjeux éthiques potentiels dans cette situation, aux enjeux d’innovation responsable à envisager, aux pistes d’action possibles inspirées de la liste de contrôle (Protocole Canadien conçu pour favoriser une utilisation responsable de l’IA en santé mentale et prévention du suicide, Mörch et al., 2020), aux ressources pratiques et à certains enjeux juridiques pertinents. Ce document a été élaboré par Carl-Maria Mörch, PhD, Algora Lab, Université de Montréal, Observatoire International sur les impacts sociétaux de l’Intelligence Artificielle et du Numérique (OBVIA), Mila – Institut Québécois d’Intelligence Artificielle, avec les contributions de Pascale Lehoux, Marc-Antoine Dilhac, Catherine Régis et Xavier Dionne.
2020-12-01
(published)
doi.org
Veille sur les outils numériques en santé dans le contexte de COVID-19
Aude Motulsky
Philippe Després
Cécile Petitgand
Jean Noel Nikiema
Catherine Régis
Jean-Louis Denis
2020-10-23
(published)
doi.org
Cybersanté : les tentatives juridiques pour objectiver un domaine en pleine effervescence
Vincent Gautrais
Catherine Régis
2020-02-01
(published)
www.semanticscholar.org
Investigating the Barriers to Physician Adoption of an Artificial Intelligence- Based Decision Support System in Emergency Care: An Interpretative Qualitative Study.
Cécile Petitgand
Aude Motulsky
Jean-Louis Denis
Catherine Régis
2020-01-01
MIE (published)
doi.org
Investigating the interconnections between human, technology and context in the implementation of a AI-based health information technology: a dynamic technological frame perspective
Catherine Régis
2020-01-01
(published)
www.semanticscholar.org