Dr. Serge Carrière, OC is a

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physiologist, physician and educator who received the

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in 1997. He received the award for being a strong leader in the fields of

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and intra-renal circulation, for advancing the field of

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, and also for establishing a partnership of universities and industry that created several medicine-related chairs at the Université de Montréal. He studied, graduating

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, at the

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. He initially became a

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, before in 1964 become a professor, the director of the department of medicine, and then the dean at the

. Thereafter he was employed by

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and Phoenix International Life Services.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carriere, Serge 1934 births Living people Canadian chief operating officers Harvard Medical School faculty Université de Montréal alumni People from Montreal Officers of the Order of Canada