Canadian Arthritis Network - Today's Arthritis Research

Dr. Brian Feldman first paediatric rheumatologist to win prestigious international award for rheumatology research

Toronto - January 31, 2005. Dr. Jane E. Aubin, Scientific Co-Director and CEO of the Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN), today congratulated Network member Dr. Brian Feldman, on receiving the Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award, given yearly to scientists under the age of 45 by the American College of Rheumatology for his research in childhood rheumatic disease.

Dr. Aubin said, "Dr. Feldman is the first paediatric rheumatologist to win this award. We are very proud of him and pleased that he has been honoured for his work to help improve research tools, including outcome-measurement tools."

Dr. Feldman holds a Canada Research Chair in childhood arthritis. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Health Policy Management and Evaluation and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. He is a rheumatologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and the Clinical Chief of the Arthritis Program at the Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre, both in Toronto. Dr. Feldman has developed new clinical trial designs and methods to study therapies in rare diseases. He spearheaded efforts to develop cost-effective preventative treatment of arthropathy in severe haemophilia. His work has helped to predict the course and outcome of systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis and juvenile lupus.