Cheryl Levitt

Dr. Cheryl Levitt – Director and Producer. Cheryl is a family physician and a tenured Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada. Cheryl studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand and Baragwanath Hospital in her native South Africa. After further training at the University of British Columbia, she practised in rural B.C. for eight years before becoming an academic family physician at McGill University in Montréal 1984. Cheryl was the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University from 1996-2006 and President of the Ontario College of Family Physicians in 2006-2007. She also has worked in leadership and other roles at Cancer Care Ontario, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and has advocated and published extensively on primary care policy issues, gender equity, maternal and child health and medical human rights. She has received a number of awards including the South African Women for Women HEALTH Award in 2004, the WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) Fellowship Award in 2010, the Jean Pierre Depins Award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2010 and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Health Wellness for the City of Hamilton in 2011