Rebecca Fisher MD, CCFP

Biography

Through the University of Ottawa, Dr. Rebecca Fisher received her medical degree in 1996 and completed her residency in family medicine in 1998. She worked as an emergency physician for two years at the Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital before joining the Division of Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in 1999. She was cross-appointed to the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine in 2011. Dr. Fisher has had a long-standing interest in teaching both medical students and residents. Working in the emergency department, she emphasizes educating parents and patients to better understand their illness or injury and manage it more comfortably.