Guylaine Lefebvre

Dr. Lefebvre is presently the Executive Director of Learning and Connecting at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She completed medical school and her obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Ottawa followed by a fellowship in advanced gynecologic surgery at the Mayo Clinic. She joined St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto as chief of obstetrics and gynecology from 2001 to 2014, where she also chaired the Medical Advisory Council. She became the inaugural joint chair of women’s health for St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto. She moved to Ottawa in 2015 to join the Canadian Medical Protective Association as Director of Practice Improvement and joined the Royal College executive team in 2021.

Dr. Lefebvre has participated in numerous education, quality improvement and practice specific committees at provincial and national level and she is a past President of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. She obtained international recognition for her work in women’s health, through an honorary fellowship to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Queen’s Jubilee award.