Carrie Bernard

Carrie Bernard, MD, MPH, CCFP, FCFP

Carrie Bernard is a community-based family physician who has practiced for the past 25 years in the growing multicultural community of Brampton, Ontario. Following her time working for Médecins Sans Frontières, her passion for ethics, public health and global health grew and Dr. Bernard pursued her MPH, with a focus on ethics. She subsequently joined the Humanitarian Health Ethics Research Group, led an initiative to develop a novel ethics curriculum for family medicine residents at the University of Toronto, provided expert advice as a member of Public Health Ontario’s committee on communicable diseases, and was a member of the Ontario COVID-19 Bioethics Table, the group responsible for guiding the Ontario Ministry of Health regarding ethical tensions that arose during the worst of the pandemic. Dr. Bernard has held various leadership roles in family medicine at McMaster University and the University of Toronto with her driving passion being empowering community-based family physicians to expand their scopes in both clinical and academic settings. She works with the Ontario College of Family Physicians as a leader in their mental health and addictions community of practice and is currently the CPD and Partnerships lead for the Division of Mental Health and addictions for the DFCM, University of Toronto.