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Dr. Lisa Calder is an authentic, collaborative executive physician leader who is passionate about patient safety and supporting physicians.
Dr. Calder is an emergency physician who undertook her 5-year residency at the University of Ottawa. She completed an Emergency Medicine research fellowship and obtained her Master of Science degree in Epidemiology in 2007. Since finishing her training, Dr. Calder completed two fellowships: the Patient Safety Fellowship in Emergency Medicine from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation, and the American Hospital Association’s Fellowship in Patient Safety Leadership.
As a researcher, she has published close to 90 peer-reviewed publications and has been successful in securing research funding, including over 2 million dollars as principal investigator. Her research has advanced understanding of emergency physician decision making and led to international adoption of the Ottawa Morbidity and Mortality Rounds Model, contributing to patient safety learning cultures in hospitals across the world.
Dr. Calder is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Emergency Medicine. She has received the University of Ottawa’s Excellence in Emergency Medicine Quality and Safety Award as well as the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians’ Teacher of the Year Award.
She joined the CMPA in 2015 as the Director of Medical Care Analytics where she leveraged medico-legal data to advance safety in medical care. She was appointed CEO of the CMPA in 2020. Her areas of focus are to be there for CMPA’s over 115K physician members, modernize the Association, and do so in a collaborative way.