Physician, Program Director, Heart Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care
Clinical Associate Professor, Cardiology,
University of British Columbia
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Ron Carere received a BSc from the University of Guelph in 1980 and his MD degree from the University of Ottawa in 1984. Ron then received his Fellowship in Internal Medicine 1988, Cardiology in 1990, and went on to complete a 2-year Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Research at Toronto General Hospital from 1989 to 1991. He then joined the Division of Cardiology at St Paul's in 1991 his clinical practice has focused on CCU medicine and Cardiac Interventions with a special interest in interventions in congenital heart disease.
Ron served as the Associate Head of the Division of Cardiology from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 he became the Physician Director of the Heart Centre Program. In 2004 he also assumed responsibilities as the Regional Director of the Cardiac Program for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. He has been a member of the Provincial Advisory panel on Cardiac Health since 1995. Ron has maintained active clinical research interests in several areas including work with the BC Cardiac Registry database.
