Board of Directors

J. Carter Thorne, MD, FRCP, FACP

Dr. Thorne is on the Consultant Staff at Southlake Regional Health Care in Newmarket, Ontario, and Director of The Arthritis Program; this is a unique interdisciplinary program for people who have arthritis. He is active in education, having established an Inflammatory Arthritis Program, Osteoarthritis Program, Fibromyalgia Program, JRA Program, as well as an Osteoporosis Program. He has worked extensively with the Arthritis Society including on the Web Site “arthritis.ca”. He has been involved in establishing Outreach Programs (Kenora, Ontario) and instrumental in setting up Arthritis Care Programs in other Centers; including The Barrie Arthritis Program at Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie ON.

He is active in Clinical Research as Principal Investigator with The Arthritis Program Research Group, assisting in Canadian as well as International Studies of new therapeutic agents as well as projects to better describe types of arthritis. He worked with other Canadian Rheumatologists to establish the Canadian Rheumatology Research Consortium of which he is the currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Rheumatology Association; and Treasurer of the PANLAR (Pan American League of The Association of Rheumatologists), and past Chair of the Simcoe York District Health Council.

Dr. Thorne is a lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He holds a Fellowship with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, and is a Fellow at the American College of Physicians and American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Thorne has had the opportunity to provide advice on Arthritis Care to governmental agencies, The Arthritis Society and the pharmaceutical industry. He has participated in Guidelines development and co-authored the chapter on Rheumatoid Arthritis in the third edition of Therapeutic Choices (2000).

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