In 2014, he was awarded the Prix d’Innovation et d’Excellence Dr Jean-A.-Vézina [10] for Québec radiology and the University of British Columbia's Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize.

[14] In 2016, he received the Wilder Penfield Prix du Québec and was ranked #6 in a list of 10 most influential neuroscientists of the modern era by Science magazine.

In 2021, he received the McLaughlin Medal[21] from the Royal Society of Canada,[22] awarded for important research of sustained excellence in medical science.

They jointly direct the Global Brain Consortium,[23] a network of clinical neuroscience researchers conducting projects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries around the world.

He went on to work at Atomic Energy of Canada in 1979, as an imaging physicist, developing a commercial Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner, before joining the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, affiliated with McGill University, in 1984.