Dr. Cheryl Barnabe is a Métis rheumatologist with a graduate degree in Clinical Epidemiology. She is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, and a Canada Research Chair in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases. 

Dr. Barnabe’s research program focuses on equity in health service delivery and arthritis outcomes, most specifically for Indigenous populations in Canada. She has contributed knowledge on the epidemiology of arthritis and contemporary outcomes of inflammatory arthritis conditions, and co-develops promising health services interventions to bridge the care gaps that exist.