René Simard (health professional)
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René Simard, OC, FRSC (born 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.
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- "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=silver&t=27795&d=2844. Retrieved March 6, 2006.
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