Dr. Simon Carette

Dr Carette graduated from Laval University in 1975 and he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Laval and McGill Universities. He trained in rheumatology at the University of Toronto and did post-graduate work at the National Institutes of Health. He was affiliated with Laval University from 1983 until 1998 where he was successively head of the division of rheumatology and Physician in Chief of le Centre Hospitalier de l’Université Laval. In 1997, he completed a sabbatical year at the University of Cambridge, UK following which he moved to the University of Toronto in 1998 as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Rheumatology at the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital. Since July 2009, he is Deputy Physician-in-Chief, Education at UHN/MSH.

Throughout his career, Dr. Carette was awarded a number of prestigious awards, including best teacher of Laval University Medical School, the American College of Rheumatology Senior Scholar Award and the Canadian Arthritis Association Young Investigator Award. At the beginning of his career, his research focused on the study of soft tissue rheumatism, including fibromyalgia and back pain and his work was published in the most prestigious journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. Since being in Toronto he has refocused his work in the field of systemic vasculitis. He is currently the director of the Vascultis Clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital. This clinic, the largest of its type in Canada, serves as a referral center for patients from all over the country and is one of only six centers in North America funded by the National Institutes of Health as part of the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC).

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