André Lussier (1933–2009) was a

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

rheumatologist Rheumatology (Greek ''ῥεῦμα'', ''rheûma'', flowing current) is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatolog ...

, and professor at the School of Medicine of the

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, Quebec, Canada. He was born and died in

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. He completed his classical studies and

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ès-art at the Séminaire Oblat de Chambly and at the

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(

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). He then completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hôpital Notre-Dame de Montréal. From 1963 to 1964, he pursued a "clinical and research fellowship" in rheumatology at the

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under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Hollander. In 1969, he joined the founding clinicians and researchers of the School of Medicine of the

and he established the first Section of Rheumatology officially recognized in

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. In 1970, he wrote the white paper upon which the specialty of rheumatology is recognized in Québec, two years before its recognition as a specialty elsewhere in North America. In 1975, he co-founded '' The Journal of Rheumatology'', of which he remained the co-Editor until his death. He was the first Director of the Clinical Research Center. of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) from 1980 to 1984. During his career, he was president of several scientific meetings and conferences (e.g.Canadian Society of Rheumatology, Pan-American League of Associations for Rheumatology PANLAR). He has published over 230 scientific articles and is the author of three books.

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Hommage à un grand chercheur et un grand philantrophe

Chaire André Lussier de rhumatologie

Distinguished Rheumatologist (1999) - Canadian Rheumatology Association
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