Vivian P. Bykerk

Biography

Dr. Bykerk received her medical degree from McMaster University. She was trained in Internal Medicine training at McMaster, in Internal and Critical Care Medicine University of Toronto and was a Rheumatology Fellow at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Bykerk has served as the Director of the Division of Rheumatology at Mississauga’s Credit Valley Hospital from 1987-2000, and the Assistant Director of the Division of Advanced Therapeutics and the Director of the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Program at the Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease and head of the Toronto Early Arthritis Program until 2011. She is currently the Direct of the Inflammatory Arthritis center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bykerk has an active clinical practice, focusing on primarily on early inflammatory arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and seronegative arthropathies. 

Research Interest

 Rheumatology