Barralet to Head Innovation at McGill University Medical School

Jake Barralet, BEng (Hons), Ph.D., has been named to the position of Director of Innovation for the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning and for the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Barralet’s primary role will be to position the Faculty of Medicine as a leader in clinical innovation and he will be in charge of the Clinical Innovation Program.

Barralet received his undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Leeds University in 1990. He followed this with a Ph.D. in Bioceramics from the University of London, completed in 1995, and Postdoctoral studies at Tokyo Dental and Medical University in 1996.

He worked for Smith and Nephew developing bone graft, bandaging and spine repair technologies for three years before starting his academic career at the University of Birmingham.

In 2004 he joined McGill as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry. In 2012 he was jointly appointed to the Department of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine and became Director of Research, Division of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, and in 2013 was named Vice-Chair of Surgery. He is also Associate Director of the Injury Repair and Recovery Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, a position he has held since 2016.