Christie Lockhard is currently the Medical Director of Quality, Innovation and Research as well as the Chief of the Department of Midwifery and Co-Program Medical Director of Maternal Newborn & Child Health Service at Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) in Toronto, ON.  She is the interim Associate Director, Michael Garron Hospital at CQuIPS.  Christie has been a practicing midwife in the Thorncliffe Park area of Toronto since 2007 and has recently completed her MSc in Midwifery at McMaster University where she focused on the intersection of patient safety and social determinants of health.  Christie’s current research projects include examining patient safety incidents at Michael Garron Hospital with an equity framework and the evaluation of the implementation of a Midwife-led Early Pregnancy Clinic. Christie is a clinical preceptor and Adjunct Faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University.  Since 2021 Christie has been serving on the MOHLTC Primary Care Advisory Table.  Christie has previously been a member of the BORN Midwifery Advisory Committee and the AOM Board of Directors and the TASHN Anti-Racism steering Committee.