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Previous Summits:
2006, June 5 - 6
2005, June 13 -14
2004, June 14 -15
Tuesday, June 5th at 9:30 am
Panelist, Collaborative Technologies for Health - Plugging into the Grid


Dr. Vivian P. Bykerk
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Director, Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Program


Dr. Vivian Bykerk received her medical degree from McMaster University. In 1981, she began her Internal Medicine training at McMaster, followed by a residency in Internal and Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Bykerk completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and a fellowship in Rheumatology at the Wellesley Hospital. She then spent two years as a Rheumatology Fellow at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec.

Dr. Bykerk was the winner of the Mount Sinai Hospital Clinical Research Competition in 1985 and was awarded the Canadian Arthritis Society Fellowship from 1985-1987. She received the American College of Rheumatology's Senior Rheumatology Scholar Award in 1989. Dr. Bykerk served as the Director of the Division of Rheumatology at Mississauga's Credit Valley Hospital from 1987-2000.

Currently, Dr. Bykerk is a staff member at Women's College Hospital's Multidisciplinary Osteoporosis program and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is an active staff member in the Department of Rheumatology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network. She serves as the Assistant Director of the Division of Advanced Therapeutics and the Director of the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Program at the Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease. Dr. Bykerk has an active clinical practice, focusing on rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis.