Tassos Anastassiades is Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Queen’s, having trained at McGill and Rockefeller Universities. He was a Fellow and Scholar of both the MRC and the Arthritis Society (TAS) and was Head of the Division of Rheumatology at Queen’s for over 30 years. He played a central role in educational and research program development and has been internationally recognized for his research, which spans both basic and clinical science. He served at various levels in TAS, the ClHR (MRC) and the RCPS and is chair of the musculoskeletal research focus at Queen’s. His current interests include repair of damaged hard tissues and the inter-phase of post-graduate training between basic science and clinical science. He is interested in exploring models on how principal teaching hospitals in Canada might come under a federally-funded rubric that would enhance postgraduate training and research.