Media room

Media contact

Noëlla LeBlanc
Manager, Communication Services
Email: [email protected]

We are available between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday to provide information and respond to interview requests. Please note that our offices are closed and our spokespeople are unavailable on weekends, after hours, and on statutory holidays.

About the CMPA

• Empowering better healthcare
  • Compensating patients injured by negligent medical care (fault in Québec) 
  • Understanding the CMPA mutual membership model
  • Improving safety of medical care through data-driven education
  • Supporting physicians facing medico-legal issues
  • Championing a fair medical liability system
  • Effectively managing funds to ensure compensation for patients 
  • CMPA’s Financial Model Explained [VIDEO] 
• 2020 Annual Report highlights
• 2019-2022 Strategic Plan

• Message from the CMPA President (September 2021)

News releases

• CMPA publishes breakthrough research on residents named in civil legal cases (September 2022)
• Highlights from CMPA information session (August 2022)
• CMPA announces key 2021 results and reduced 2023 member fees at Annual Meeting and Conference (August 2022)
• CMPA hosts education session to enhance doctor - patient relationships (August 2022)
• CMPA to provide key patient safety learning sessions at 2022 annual meeting and conference (August 2022)
• CMPA publishes unique COVID-19 research on 3,800 advice calls received during the first 3 waves of the pandemic (August 2022)
• CMPA hosts virtual education session – Diagnostic decisions: Interventions for safer diagnoses (August 2021)
• Canadian Medical Protective Association holds virtual 2021 annual meeting – announces key 2020 results and 2022 member fees (August 2021)
• Dr. Lisa Calder begins her leadership of the CMPA (August 2020)
• Dr. Michael T. Cohen elected president of The Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) (August 2020)
• CMPA hosts expert panel – Lessons in virtual care from the COVID-19 pandemic (August 2020)
• Canadian Medical Protective Association supports appropriate use of artificial intelligence in healthcare (August 2019)
• Unique collaboration to improve the safety of obstetrical and perinatal care in Canada (November 2018)
• Canadian Medical Protective Association calls for system-wide change to improve physician wellness (August 2018)
• CMPA supports the release and recommendations of the Goudge Report on the physician complaints process (May 2018)
• CMPA supports recommendations from the Goudge Report on medical liability (May 2018)

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• Tackling the misuse of opioids: Safe prescribing

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