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Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Schulich School of Medicine, London, Ontario, Canada.  She is the Division Head in Rheumatology at St. Joseph's Health Centre, London.  

Rheumatologist and Clinician-Scientist at the University Health Network and Sinai Health Systems. She is Directorship of the Toronto Scleroderma Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is also the Associate Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Program at the University of Toronto.

Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and a Senior Investigator, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. 

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Clinical Psychologist who studied at McGill University. Broadly, her research centres on health psychology and patient engagement in research. Her doctoral research focuses on the experience of caring for a loved one with scleroderma, with the ultimate goal of developing resources to decrease the burden that can be associated with caregiving.

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Rheumatologist and epidemiologist at the Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute, and an Associate professor and Member of the Division of Experimental Medicine in the Department of Medicine at McGill. 

Dr. Mohammed Osman grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he attended Dalhousie University until moving to Alberta to further his education. Dr. Osman is a rheumatologist and clinical immunologist interested in connective tissues diseases, immune dysregulation and immune deficiencies.

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