And despite suffering from imposter syndrome, she kept growing as a leader. Osler recalled that as president-elect of the CMA, she felt panic at having to be interviewed on CBC Television’s Power & Politics with only an hour to prepare.Īfter that, she kept being pushed out of her comfort zone. Peter Nickerson, dean of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. She reflected on her career in conversation with Dr. 15, Osler was the special guest at the Teacher Recognition and Manitoba Medical Students’ Association Awards evening at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, attended by 125 medical students, teachers, faculty and deans. In 2018, she became the first racialized woman to serve as president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).
Osler, a 1992 UM alumna in medicine, is an assistant professor of otolaryngology at the Max Rady College of Medicine. “Even when the outside world is telling you, ‘No, you’re not capable,’ you are,” said the ear, nose and throat surgeon, a trailblazer who has recently taken on a new role in Ottawa as an independent senator representing Manitoba. “You are stronger than you think,” Senator Gigi Osler told an audience of medical students and physicians at a recent UM awards evening.
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