I was born and raised in France. I finished my MD there and then I turned my eyes to Canada after meeting my lovely wife where I completed my training in neurology at Laval University. I did an elective in child neurology and decided to complete my training at McGill University. 3 mentors oriented my choices and career. Dr. Nicolas Dupré pushed my interest in neurogenetics. Dr. Renée-Myriam Boucher convinced me to go for child neurology and Dr. Chantal Poulin pushed me into the field of neuromuscular diseases. I added a fellowship in child neuromuscular diseases at SickKids in Toronto supervised by Drs. Vajsar and Dowling. They gave me the taste of research and back in Québec City I expanded the neuromuscular clinic and started my lab. Our team is growing. Our most recent finding is the characterization of a new congenital myopathy in French Canadians related to the TTNT1 gene. I found a first young patient affected by recurrent rhabdomyolysis and progressive contractures with short statures and dysmorphism. Funny story, the mother thanks to social networking found a second patient and 2 others were assessed by Dr. Bernard Brais. We put all our resources together to complete the phenotypic description by correlating muscle MRI, pathology and clinical description. Dr. Alan Beggs created a nice zebrafish model to bring some functional study and prove the genetic finding leading to a nice publication. Research is a good opportunity to meet collaborators and young researchers such as Dr. David Pellerin who put a lot of time and energy in this project. Overall, finding this new presentation opened a new therapeutic opportunity. Thanks to this discovery and our new understanding of TNNT1 function, we recently tried a medication on the youngest patient with incredible effects because the primary goal of my research is to improve quality of life in my patients affected by neuromuscular disorders.