Elise Boulanger, Canada

Dr. Élise Boulanger practices family medicine in the community and at the Father Dowd CHSLD. She is a clinical instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University and has served on the Board of Directors of the Collège québécois des médecins de famille (CQMF) since 2015. Since the start of the pandemic, Dr. Boulanger has managed multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 in CHSLDs in Montreal. Since the first wave, she has also worked as a medical consultant with the Direction régionale de santé publique de Montréal in support of the DRSP IPAC brigade, which works in the field to facilitate the implementation of infection prevention and control practices and biosecurity principles in CHSLDs.