Brigitte Lemyre

Dr. Brigitte Lemyre is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatologist with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and The Ottawa Hospital, where she provides care to critically ill newborns. She is also a clinical researcher with the CHEO Research Institute and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI).

Dr. Lemyre obtained her MD degree at Sherbrooke University, in Quebec in 1993 and trained in Pediatrics and at Sherbrooke University and in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Lemyre joined CHEO and TOH in 2001 and has been involved in many clinical trials, systematic reviews and research in the fields of neonatal ventilation and surfactant therapy, shared decision making and extreme prematurity and therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal asphyxia.  She completed in 2020 a 6 year term as a member of the Fetus and Newborn Committee of the Canadian Pediatric Society and has chaired the CHEO’s Division of Neonatology Neonatal Research Committee since 2015. She is a site investigator for the Canadian Neonatal Network and EPIQ.  Over the last 5 years, she has chaired the Extremely Low Gestational Age (ELGA)
committee in Ottawa, to improve the care provided to our smallest and most vulnerable population.