Dr. Nicole Damestoy is a public health physician, with a focus on prevention. She has taught in her specialty for over 20 years. Dr. Damestoy served as the board president and executive director of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec for seven years, during which time the pandemic took place.
The Nominating Committee values Dr. Damestoy’s governance and leadership experience, and hopes to benefit from her public health knowledge and perspective.
Practice Appointments
Centre intégré de santé et des services sociaux des Laurentides - Direction de santé publique
Medical assistant and physician advisor - Promotion and prevention team
2022-
Hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé de Laval
Active staff, clinical department, public health
1994-
Active staff, department of family medicine
1990-1994
Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Chief executive officer
2015-2022
Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Laval
Physician advisor - on secondment with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec
2012-2015
Collège des médecins du Québec
Assistant syndic
2012-2012
Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Laval - Régie régionale de Laval
Executive director of public health
2005-2012
Medical assistant to the director of public health
2003-2005
Coordinator - Promotion-Prevention team
1998-2003
Physician advisor – elder care, smoking cessation, and injury prevention
1994-1998
