Jane Philpott served in the Canadian government from 2015 to 2019 where she was federal Minister of Health, Minister of Indigenous Services, President of the Treasury Board, and Minister of Digital Government. She is now the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and director of the School of Medicine at Queen’s University, and CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization. She is also a medical doctor and a professor of family medicine. Prior to entering politics, Philpott spent the first decade of her medical career in Niger and then practiced family medicine for seventeen years until she became Chief of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital. She lives in Stouffville, Ontario.