Headshot of Dr. Margot Burnell

Dr. Margot Burnell is the President of the Canadian Medical Association and a medical oncologist from New Brunswick. Following an undergraduate education in biology and chemistry, Dr. Burnell completed her medical degree at Western University in 1980 and her internal medicine and medical oncology residency at the University of Toronto in 1985. She completed a fellowship year in oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, United Kingdom, in 1986 before joining the staff at the Saint John Regional Hospital. Dr. Burnell has been honoured by the New Brunswick Medical Society with the Dr. Donald Morgan Service Award, by the Rotary Club with a Paul Harris Fellow Award and by the CMA with an Honorary Membership Award.