School of Policy Studies' Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief speaker series: 

The Physician Role in our HealthCare System with Dr. Lisa Tannock

The challenges of the Canadian healthcare system are multifactorial: this talk will focus on physician components of the complexities, including physician numbers, payment systems and structures, and practice features.

Dr. Lisa Tannock is 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 (SEAMO). She completed her MD and internal medicine training at the University of Toronto, and subspecialty training in endocrinology, metabolism, and nutrition at the University of Washington. Dr. Tannock’s career started as a clinician-scientist where she conducted basic biomedical research on diabetes, lipid metabolism, and cardiovascular disease, and she also maintained a clinical practice in Endocrinology.  She previously held senior academic and leadership roles at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center before joining Queen’s in July 2025.