{"id":742050,"date":"2026-06-17T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742050\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:01:11","slug":"government-of-canada-announces-new-appointments-to-the-patented-medicine-prices-review-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742050\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of Canada announces new appointments to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 16, 2026 | Ottawa, Ontario | Government of Canada\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Honourable\u00a0Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, announced\u00a0the appointment of Peter Moreland-Giraldeau as the new Vice-Chairperson and Conor McCourt as a member of the Board to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/patented-medicine-prices-review.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moreland-Giraldeau is a lawyer\u00a0by training\u00a0with eight\u00a0years of professional experience\u00a0across multiple\u00a0jurisdictions. He has served on the Board as a member since October\u00a02023, and in his new position as Vice-Chairperson he will support the recently appointed Chairperson, Anie Perrault.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. McCourt is a retired lawyer with extensive experience in the practice of pharmaceutical patent law and agency, health regulatory affairs, and pharmaceutical and biologics market access and pricing.<\/p>\n<p>The PMPRB is\u00a0an arm\u2019s-length organization of the government\u00a0that\u00a0protects the interests of Canadian consumers by ensuring that the prices of patented medicines sold in Canada are not excessive.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Canada is committed to appointing highly qualified candidates to best serve the interests of Canadians and to open, transparent, and merit-based processes for selecting Governor in Council appointees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 16, 2026 | Ottawa, Ontario | Government of Canada\u00a0 \u00a0 Today, the Honourable\u00a0Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,14040,84,253885,12537,104119,377,14041],"class_list":["post-742050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-general-public","tag-health","tag-health-and-safety","tag-health-canada","tag-hon-marjorie-michel","tag-medication","tag-news-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}