Dr. Carrie Bernard (she/her)

Practice Model: Family Health Team – Family Health Organization (FHT – FHO)

Practising Since: 1999

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Biography

Carrie Bernard received her medical degree from McMaster University in 1997 and completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toronto. She practised comprehensive family medicine for 25 years with the Queen Square FHT in Brampton and currently works as a locum for teaching practices in the GTA. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at U of T and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster and at Toronto Metropolitan University. Passionate about community and global health, Dr. Bernard received her MPH in 2012. She worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in northern Uganda in 2005, and Public Health Ontario from 2012 to 2019. She has held various leadership roles at McMaster and U of T, with her driving passion being empowering community-based family physicians to expand their scopes in both clinical and academic setting. She is the CPD and Partnerships Lead for the Division of Mental Health and Addictions at the DFCM

Communities Served

Provides care to patients primarily in the Mississauga and Brampton communities.

In My Own Words

Currently experiencing what it means to work with a disability as I work through the consequences of having Long Covid.