Dr. Stephen Archer

Dr. Stephen Archer is the Director of the Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME) and holds the C. Franklin and Helene K. Bracken Chair. He formerly served as the Head of the Department of Medicine at Queens University from 2012 - 2023. He is a physician scientist and a practicing cardiologist who specializes in the care of patients with various forms of pulmonary hypertension.

After training at the Royal Columbian Hospital in BC and the Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1988. He spent a decade on faculty and attained the rank of Professor under the guidance of his mentor and friend, Dr. E.K. Weir. He then served as Chief of Cardiology and Heart & Stroke Chair for Northern Alberta at the University of Alberta (1998-2007) and Chair of Cardiology and Harold Hines Jr Professor at the University of Chicago (2007-12).

Dr. Archer then returned to Queen’s University as the Head of Medicine and Program Medical Director for Kingston Health Sciences Centre.

He runs a CIHR funded research laboratory that develops experimental therapies for pulmonary hypertension and cancer. His research has garnered an h-index of 120 and his publications have been cited over 60,000 times. His translational cardiovascular research has been recognized with numerous awards, including being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and being awarded Distinguished Scientist Awards from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology. He received the AFMC President’s Award for Exemplary National Leadership in Academic Medicine and was named the Chicago American Heart Association Coeur d’Or recipient in 2013 for leading the establishment of a prehospital STEMI care network in Chicago.