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Dr. Claire Bombardier

Professor Claire Bombardier currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer for Musculoskeletal Care as well as a Pfizer Research Chair in Rheumatology and she is the Rheumatology Division Director for the University of Toronto. She is also a senior scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute in Canada and at the Institute for Work and Health, an independent, not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to improve the health of working people. After serving as Interim Scientific Director Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN) for eight months, Dr. Bombardier was named as a Co-Scientific Director.

Dr. Bombardier was the founding director of the clinical epidemiology program at the University of Toronto. She completed her MD at the University of Montreal and her residency at McGill University. She was a Robert Wood Clinical Scholar in economics and rheumatology at Stanford University.

Honours she has received include the University of Toronto's Goldie Price Award (1986), an Arthritis Society Associateship (1979-85), a National Health Research Scholar Award (1986-91) and the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine 2001 Research Award for outstanding research accomplishments. In May 2001 the Endowment of "The Claire Bombardier Award" for the most promising (MSc Clinical Epidemiology) Student was created. In Sept 2003, she was the University of Toronto, Dales Award in Medical Research, which was established in 1991 by the University of Toronto Life Sciences Committee to recognize sustained excellence in medical research.

Professional interests include the improvement of clinical effectiveness, optimum use of technology and drugs, clinical economics, performance measurement/program evaluation, health research methods (clinical trials), knowledge transfer and workplace/rehabilitation, with a focus on musculoskeletal disorders.

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