Rhian Merry Touyz Koppel (born September 14, 1959) is a Canadian medical researcher.
She is currently serving as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer[1] of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada, since 2021.
Touyz earned her BSc (1980), MBBCh (1984), MSc (1986) and PhD (1992) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
A clinician scientist, she was also Director of the BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Vascular Science and Medicine and a consultant in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
In 2021, Touyz was appointed as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre[4] in Montreal, Canada.