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Division of Rheumatology

Overview

The Division of Rheumatology is based at The Arthritis Centre on the 6^th floor of the Riverside Campus. Our team consists of 5 full-time individuals as well as 5 part-time academic staff, nurses, a pharmacist, social worker and administrative staff. We provide exemplary care to patients with a wide variety of musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. We provide service to the Champlain LHIN and outreach care to patients in Baffin Island. We are focusing on the development of priority programs including Advanced Therapeutics and Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases such as lupus, scleroderma and Sjogren’s syndrome. Considering that 1 in 6 Canadians are affected, we have significant manpower challenges. We are actively developing relationships with community physicians and agencies such as The Arthritis Society and The Osteoporosis Society. We are committed to the training of rotating students and residents from a variety of fields and are proud of our subspecialty training program. Advances in disease modifying and specifically targeted biologic therapies are contributing to the excitement in and for our subspecialty.

Education

The Division of Rheumatology offers a two-year program and applicants must have completed at least three years of training in Internal Medicine in an accredited program recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.  Our program is based at the Arthritis Centre located at the Riverside Campus of the Ottawa Hospital.

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