Machelle Wilchesky, Principal Investigator at the LDI and Director of the Donald Berman Maimonides Centre for Research in Aging, was appointed Scientific Director of the McGill Primary Care Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) on July 1, 2024. As a part of the Department of Family Medicine, the McGill PBRN network includes 11 McGill primary care sites, intended to promote clinician-led research. The PBRN is part of a Quebec-wide network, called Réseau-1 Québec, which provides support for the activities of the PBRNs of its member universities: McGill University, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke and l’Université Laval.