Speaker Profile

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Biography
Amy completed her undergraduate medical education at the University of Alberta and residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Saskatchewan. Amy has completed a MSc in Human Factors and System Safety (Lund University) and currently in the DrPH Program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto). Amy currently lives and works in Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People. She provides community-based care at the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health and at Bruyère Continuing Care, and she is an active clinician-teacher and the Pre-Clerkship Director, Anglophone stream, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. A focus of her clinical and academic activities is working with patients for whom social determinants of health constitute barriers to receiving safe and effective care. She participates on multiple committees for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC).
Disclosure
1. I have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose: - All other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity: Simulation Canada (Director); CICan (Chair of EDI Working Group); Department of National Defence (civilian consultant)