Dr. Cheryl Barnabe is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, a Rheumatologist, a Canada Research Chair in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases, the incoming Director for the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health (January 2024), and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Dr. Barnabe’s research program focusses on equity in health service delivery and arthritis outcomes, most specifically for Indigenous populations in Canada. She also performs epidemiologic research in Rheumatoid Arthritis outcomes as impacted by lifestyle and environmental exposures. Over the past decade she has provided rheumatology clinical care in the Treaty 7 territory in both urban and rural settings and provided continuing medical education training in building relationships with Indigenous patients.