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René Simard (health professional)

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Awards
  
Order of Canada


Name
  
Rene Simard

Born
  
October 4, 1935 (age 88) (
1935-10-04
)
Montreal, Quebec

Occupation
  
physician, cancer researcher and university administrator

René Simard, OC FRSC (born October 4, 1935) is a Canadian physician, cancer researcher and university administrator.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts from College Saint-Laurent in 1956 and a Doctor of Medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1962. He did his residency in pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and he received a Doctor of Science from the University of Paris in 1968.

From 1993 to 1998, he was the rector of the Université de Montréal.

He is a co-author of On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.

In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

References

René Simard (health professional) Wikipedia