Dr. Trudel is a genitourinary and molecular pathologist at the CHUM. She is a clinical associate professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Montreal, from the Department of pathology and cellular biology, where she is at the head of the histopathology and personalized medicine graduate program. She is also a regular researcher at the CHUM research center. Dr. Trudel holds a "Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé" researcher-clinician Junior 2 salary award. Her research interests focus on prostate cancer, specifically intraductal carcinoma, an aggressive histological subtype of prostate cancer, as well as the different meso- and microscopic applications of Raman spectroscopy in the detection and characterization of cancer. Over the course of her career, she has received many prestigious awards such as the Prostate Cancer Canada Movember Rising Star Award and twice the Canadian Association of Pathologists Junior Scientist Award.