Dr. Louise McNaughton-Filion is the Regional Supervising Coroner for the Ottawa office in the East Region, since 2013. Prior to her appointment she was an investigating and inquest coroner for many years. She has been a practicing physician since 1990, initially working as a ‘full service’ family physician (emergency, obstetrics, palliative care, in-hospital) in Pickering and Toronto, then focusing her practice on emergency medicine upon her arrival in Ottawa in 1993. She has held multiple administrative posts on a hospital, regional and national level.

 Dr. McNaughton-Filion is also the organizer for the Multi-Disciplinary Death Investigation Rounds, an educational initiative for all participants in the death investigation system, province-wide and the Chair of the Maternal Perinatal Death Review Committee, which reviews all childbearing person’s deaths in the province.