Dr. Joober is currently training in Geriatric Psychiatry at McGill University. He earned an MD and a postgraduate diploma (DESS) in Psychiatry from the University of Sherbrooke.
As President of the Association of Residents of McGill (ARM), Heithem will be representing the ARM on the FMRQ Board for 2024-2025. In 2023-2024, he was FMRQ Secretary-Treasurer, having sat on the Federation’s Union Affairs Committee (CAS) from July 2021 to June 2023. In 2020-2021, he was also Psychiatry residents’ representative on the Association des médecins résidents de Sherbrooke (AMReS).
Awards received since Heithem began his university studies include the University of Sherbrooke Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Research Bursary in 2016, and the Bioinformatics Research Bursary in 2015.
Heithem is actively involved in his community. In particular, he was joint initiator of a partnership in 2017-2018 to help interested teens prepare for and take part free of charge in the Défi Pierre-Lavoie sporting challenge.
