Department of Family Medicine

A well-regarded leader in Francophone medical education, Dr. Lyne Pitre has had a significant impact on the Ontario health system. Dr. Pitre was one of the first preceptors of the University of Ottawa’s Family Medicine residency program at the Hôpital Montfort site, the only Francophone program of its kind in Ontario, and was the program director for 22 years. Dr. Pitre is the recipient of the 2018 Regional Family Physician of the Year and the 2018 CFPC Scholarly Work in Family Medicine Education Grant.

The Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) has named Dr. Dieter Poenn of Little Current, Ontario, the 2018 Reg L. Perkin Family Physician of the Year. Dr. Poenn has been an associate clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa since 1997 and an assistant professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine since 2005.

The DFM would like to extend a warm welcome to Marisa Duval, who started in the newly created position of IT and Business Coordinator on November 5. Get to know a little more about Marisa!