Dr. Mélissa Langevin is a pediatric emergency and transport physician who shares her clinical hours with the Emergency Department at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and ORNGE Medical Transport Services.
Originally from Lac St-Jean, Québec, she has been “born and trained” at the University of Ottawa where she began her undergraduate training in Occupational Therapy. She then connected to family roots at the Memorial University of Newfoundland for her pediatrics training. Since returning to Ottawa in 2011, she has maintained a focus on equitable healthcare delivery through a combination of Global Health work with MSF and Red Cross International and a research focus on underserved populations. Results-driven, she diversified her clinical practice over the past ten years with operational roles in Emergency Management, Kids Come First Care Clinic Lead and Associate Medical Director for CHEO’s Emergency Department.
In her spare time (or transit time!), she loves being in wide open spaces, biking, skiing, swimming, camping, gardening, and reading. With two early school-age kids at home, she is returning to her Occupational Therapy roots and reconnecting with the importance of meaning at home and at work.
Mélissa hopes to bring her love of medicine, operational leadership experience and focus on building equitable access to wellness resources across the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and develop a robust Professional Fulfillment standard of practice for all members of the Faculty.
Dr. Erika Tanner, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, is a practising family physician at the West Ottawa Nepean Family Health Organization. She started practice as a community family physician after graduating from the Family Medicine Residency and a Fellowship in Women’s Health at the University of Ottawa. Along with her practice, Erika has worked in a variety of positions including organizing and running a Women’s Health Clinic at Shepherd’s of Good Hope, organizing a street youth drop-in health clinic at Operation Come Home, practising Inpatient Medicine on the Short Term Rehab Unit of the TOH General, and practising Obstetrics and Inpatient Mental Health at the Queensway Carleton Hospital. Erika also teaches medical students and residents through the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Erika previously worked as a professional classical singer based in Toronto, Ontario, having achieved top honours in an Artist Diploma from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Acadia University. Erika continued singing during medical school at Dalhousie University with the Dal Medical Chorale and Dr. Ron Stewart. She continues to spread her love of Music and Medicine by organizing and running the GAD7s Medical Choir, a group of University of Ottawa medical students and Department of Family Medicine staff and faculty who meet weekly to sing and find wellness. The GAD7s Medical Choir is funded by a grant Erika won at the DFM Dragon’s Den. The choir performs in various concerts each spring to promote Health and Humanities.
In her new role as Director of Learner Wellness PGME, Erika meets with struggling trainees and helps direct them to resources or medical accommodations that help them find success in Residency. Erika was awarded the University of Ottawa Faculty Award in Wellness 2024. Erika is also a member of the Canadian Association of Health Humanities and is helping lead the development of the Creating Spaces conference in Ottawa in 2026. She hopes to bring more humanities-based initiatives as a vehicle for Wellness to the University of Ottawa Faculty and trainees.
The Functional Abilities Form (FAF) is used as a tool to facilitate the collection of information of residents or clinical fellows who may require a medical accommodation. The FAF must be completed by the health professional who is treating the trainee and actively involved in their care.
Please return the completed form via LiquidFiles to [email protected] to schedule an appointment with our Director of Learner Wellness, Dr. Erika Tanner.
