The New Brunswick Medical Society has a new president.
Dr. Michèle Michaud is a family physician, a palliative care physician, a pain clinic physician, and a hospitalist at the Edmundston Regional Hospital.
She graduated from Université Laval Medical School in 2008 and completed her residency in family medicine in 2010.
Michaud is an active member of the provincial medical society having served on the negotiations committee and as a member of the executive council.
She joined the board of directors in 2014 and was nominated as president-elect last year.
According to a release from the medical society, Michaud will advocate for enhanced access to primary and specialty care and for innovative solutions to critical health human resource shortages.