Meeting Highlights
Coverage of the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008
Coverage of the 2008 Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, Paris, France, June 11-14, 2008
Honolulu, September 14-19, 2007
Notes from the 2007 Meeting of the Global Arthritis Research Network
News from the 8th International Congress
Affiliations
Edward C. Keystone, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Director, The Rebecca Macdonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease
Director, the Division of Advanced Therapeutics in Arthritis
Associate Clinical Director of the Canadian Arthritis Network
Chairman, Canadian Rheumatology Research Consortium
Consultant, Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital/University
Health Network
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Medical/Professional Training:
Dr. Keystone obtained his Doctorate of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto in 1969. After a further five years of training in Rheumatology, he received his specialty degrees (or fellowships) in both Rheumatology and Internal Medicine in 1974. He then carried out his research training at the Clinical Research Centre in Harrow, London, UK until 1976. He was on staff as a consultant rheumatologist at The Wellesley Central Hospital, Toronto, Canada from 1976 to 1998 before taking up his current position at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Professional and Academic Activities:
Dr. Keystone is a professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a Senior Consultant in Rheumatology at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is the Chairman of the Canadian Rheumatology Research Consortium (CRRC), a national network of academic and community rheumatologists devoted to enhancing the efficiency and quality of clinical trials in Canada. He is also Associate Clinical Director of the Canadian Arthritis Network - a federally funded Network of Centres of Excellence Program.
Dr. Keystone founded the Arthritis and Autoimmunity Research Centre, a multidisciplinary research centre devoted to epidemiological and translation research studies in autoimmue diseases at the University Health Network. He is a senior scientist with the Arthritis and Autoimmunity Research Centre.
Dr. Keystone recently established The Rebecca Macdonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease - a centre devoted to research into genomics, therapeutics, and outcomes in autoimmune inflammatory joint disease. He is Director of the Centre and heads the Advanced Therapeutics Division which focuses on novel therapeutics in both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.
He is a consultant to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry both in the USA and abroad, and is a member of numerous biopharmaceutical advisory boards.
Research:
Dr. Keystone is also actively engaged in laboratory research studies of immune system abnormalities in Rheumatoid Arthritis and other autoimmune rheumatic diseases. He is the author of more than 145 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards and honours, including the Senior Investigator Award of the Canadian Rheumatology Association.
Personal:
Dr. Keystone is married with 3 children; ages 19 to 26. His extra-curricular interests include skiing, and horseback riding.
