Lindy Samson

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ABOUT LINDY SAMSON

Lindy Samson has been the Chief of Staff and Chief Medical Officer at CHEO (the Children\'s Hospital of Eastern Ontario-Ottawa Children\'s Treatment Center) since 2016 and in October 2024 stepped into the interim President and CEO position for 5 months, before stepping back into the Chief of Staff Role in March 2025. As Chief of Staff and CMO, she is responsible for organizing and overseeing the activities of the medical staff and for ensuring the quality of clinical care and patient safety. In this role, she works closely with the CEO and the Executive Team and reports directly to the Board of Trustees. As CHEO’s senior physician leader she has co-chaired an interdisciplinary initiative regarding the future health needs of children and youth in our region, co-chaired the regional hospital COVID response and focused on ways to optimize the dyad leadership model in healthcare. Since 1998 Lindy has been a staff physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Clinical Investigator at the CHEO Research Institute. She also holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine. Lindy obtained her medical degree from McMaster University School of Medicine in Hamilton in 1990. She completed her Pediatrics and Pediatrics Infectious Diseases residencies at CHEO with further training in Pediatric HIV and Clinical Epidemiology at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Toronto. Moving back to CHEO in 1998, she was the Chief of the Division of infectious Diseases for over 10 years. Her academic and research work is focused on pediatric HIV, the impact of social determinants on the health of children and youth and teaching/evaluating the Health Advocate and Leadership Roles across the continuum of learners.