Biography
Dr. Marie-Hélène Chomienne is an Associate Professor and Clinical Investigator at the Department of Family Medicine as well as a Scientist and founding member of the Institut du Savoir Montfort. Dr. Chomienne is an accomplished interdisciplinary researcher with interests in current mental health conditions in primary care, and the health status of francophone minority populations, including black francophone minority communities. Dr. Chomienne is also interested in primary health care services, the organization of primary care and improving primary care delivery through interprofessional collaboration. In 2020, Dr. Chomienne was awarded the Chaire de recherche en francophonie internationale et santé de l’immigrant ou du réfugié d’Afrique francophone subsaharienne, an international Francophonie research chair that will focus on the health of immigrants and refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa. She was awarded the Ordre des francophones d'Amérique (2022) and was a finalist for the Prix Bernard Grandmaître in 2023. As a family medicine hospitalist at Hôpital Montfort, Dr. Chomienne oversees the training of family medicine residents and medical students at the University of Ottawa. She provides outpatient family medicine consultation for Hôpital Montfort, and makes home visits to many patients in Quebec.