Dr. Lefebvre completed medical school and her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Ottawa, and did her fellowship in advanced gynecologic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2001, after having been on staff for ten years at the Ottawa Hospital, she joined St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto as chief of obstetrics and gynecology, where she also directed a fellowship in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and she chaired the Medical Advisory Committee of the Hospital.
Dr. Lefebvre has participated in numerous education, quality improvement and practice specific committees at a national level and she was President of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada in 2007-08. She has received an honorary fellowship to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Queen’s Jubilee award for her work in women’s health and she became the inaugural joint chair of women’s health for St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto. In August 2015, she returned to Ottawa, joining the Canadian Medical Protective Association as Director of Practice Improvement within the Safe Medical Care group. Every year, members of her department design and deliver upwards of 500 presentations and online materials for physicians and their teams across Canada.