Director

Dr. Julia Trahey graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland’s (MUN) Medical School in 1986 and subsequently completed core Internal Medicine training at Memorial and McGill Universities. She is a Founder of the subspecialty of General Internal Medicine (GIM) recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2010. Since 1994, she has been in full-time clinical practice as a GIM specialist at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She served as the Clinical Chief Patient Safety for Eastern Health Regional Health Authority from 2009 to 2016. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at MUN responsible for delivering undergraduate and postgraduate patient safety curriculum. In 2009 she became a Canadian Patient Safety Officer and in 2010 completed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Patient Safety Executive Officer Executive Development Course. In 2017 she was awarded a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. She has been the Director of the Centre for Health Professionals Education (CCHPE) since 2019. She has been the Medical Director of Virtual Care for Eastern Health and now NLHS since 2021.