Chief Quality, Safety and Interprofessional collaboration officer, Clinique d’anesthesie AGM; Canada

After earning her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Sherbrooke in 2004, Dr. Marie-Andrée Girard completed her residency in anaesthesiology while also obtaining a master’s degree in health law from the University of Sherbrooke. Following a fellowship in paediatric anaesthesiology in France, she began her career at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre in Montreal, Canada, where she worked until 2018. During her years of academic practice, she had the opportunity to develop her research on the impact of legal literacy on interprofessional collaboration attitudes and beliefs. Since leaving Sainte-Justine Hospital, she has completed and defended her doctorate in law and participated in national and international organization promoting quality and interprofessional collaboration and education. Since 2021, she has been part of the AGM Anaesthesia Clinic team, where she currently combines a clinical practice in ambulatory paediatric anaesthesia with a managerial role as Chief Quality officer.