Biography

Samuel Labrecque is a logistician with a background in humanitarian and pharmaceutical logistics and a focus on statistical and stochastic planning methods. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a specialisation in Supply Chain Management from Université Laval in Québec, Canada, and a Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). Following professional experience in the veterinary pharmaceutical and food industries, he joined the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, where he spent four years coordinating clinical research and ultimately leading the research coordination team. Samuel is now a PhD student at the EpiCenter, where he also provides statistical advice to medical students, postgraduate researchers, and clinicians. His research interests include neurodegenerative diseases, medical statistics and time series analysis, clinical epidemiology, and genetic genealogy.

Selected publications

• Kaltseis K, Felicetti S, Dejakum B, Weber L, Labrecque S, Karisik A, Moelgg K, Boehme C, Toell T, Mayer-Suess L, Eller MT, Frank F, Schiefecker A, Kiechl S, Knoflach M, Broessner G; STROKE‐CARD Study Group. Migraine in young stroke patients—Better outcomes despite distinct risk profiles: Insights from the STROKE-CARD-Study. European Journal of Neurology. 2026 Aug;33(8):e70709. doi: 10.1111/ene.70709.
• Schwarzová K, Labrecque S, Hemicker G, Horlings C, Cerejo C, Peball M, Carbone F, Djamshidian-Tehrani A, Seppi K, Heim B. Long-term use of tiapride and tetrabenazine in Huntington’s Disease: A 25-year retrospective single-center analysis. Clinical Therapeutics. 2026 May 29:S0149-2918(26)00151-7. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2026.05.005.
• Maetzler W, Avey S, Pilotto A, …, Labrecque S, …, Ng WF; IDEA-FAST Project Consortium. IDEA-FAST clinical study protocol: Identifying digital end-points of fatigue, sleep quality and daytime sleepiness in N = 2000. Digital Health. 2026 Mar 31;12:20552076261428155. doi: 10.1177/20552076261428155.
• Hemicker G, Schwarzová K, Cerejo C, Labrecque S, Peball M, Carbone F, Wimmer B, Djamshidian A, Seppi K, Heim B. Sex-related differences in Huntington’s disease: a scoping review. Biology of Sex Differences. 2026 Apr 3;17(1):106. doi: 10.1186/s13293-026-00895-9.
• Heim B, Krismer F, Hemicker G, Cerejo C, Schwarzová K, Labrecque S, Carbone F, Peball M, Scherfler C, Mahlknecht P, Grams AE, Gizewski ER, Djamshidian A, Seppi K. Simple diameters, accurate stages: A practical approach to HD-ISS staging. Journal of Neurology. 2025 Nov 14;272(12):760. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13409-1. Erratum in: J Neurol. 2026 Apr 17;273(5):276. doi: 10.1007/s00415-026-13707-2.