Dr. Judith Leech, MD, FRCPC, D, ABSM (Co-Director)

• Respirologist with an interest in adult sleep medicine since 1983.
• Trained in Sleep Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago under Dr. M. Lopata
• Chief of the Civic Hospital sleep laboratory (1986-2003)
• Certified American Board of Sleep Medicine (2003)
• Former acting-Chief of Sleep Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital (2003-2007)
• Medical Director of the Renfrew Victoria Hospital Sleep Laboratory
• Co-Chair of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario task force on standards for sleep laboratories
• Sleep Laboratory Assessor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
• Past VP-Clinical of the Canadian Sleep Society
• Principle Investigator on a number of pharmaceutical studies in sleep medicine and co-investigator with the Heart Institute on sleep apnea and the heart studies