René Simard, (October 4, 1935 – May 21, 2025) was a Canadian physician, cancer researcher and university administrator.
Early life and education
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.
Career
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.
Simard died on May 21, 2025, at the age of 89.
Honours
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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