Dr. Lynn Marshall, Chair of the Board and President
Lynn is a faculty member of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and the 
Clinical Sciences Division of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Laurentian and Lakehead Universities, and teaches both medical students and graduate physicians. Besides an M.D. from Queen’s University, she has Fellowships in the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine in Great Britain.
She serves as Alternate Chair of the Environmental Health Committee of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, and served as Co-Chair 2006-2008. She has been the Committee’s Representative in the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, and the Healthy Indoors Partnership.
Lynn is Medical Education Liaison/Staff Physician and Past Medical Director of the University of Toronto-affiliated Environmental Health Clinic at Women’s College Hospital, Toronto. Prior to working in the Environmental Health Clinic (since its inception in 1996), she practiced in Australia and small town/rural Ontario- primary care family and emergency medicine, general practice psychotherapy, and occupational and environmental medicine. She also completed the required Master of Science courses in Epidemiology at the University of Toronto, and collaborated on studies with researchers in the Department of Public Health Sciences, co-authoring several peer-reviewed scientific papers.
Lynn is Past President of both the Canadian Society for Environmental Medicine and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and is a member of numerous professional associations, such as the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) and the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Canada (OEMAC). She is the chair of the Guidelines Task Force of the Professional Development Committee of the General Practice Psychotherapy Association, which, over the past four years, has developed “Guidelines for the Practice of Psychotherapy by Physicians”.
She was appointed to a Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel in early 2008 by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, and has served as an Advisor to numerous government, non-governmental, and patient support organizations, including Health Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the New Brunswick Department of Health and Community Services, Toronto Public Health, the Lung Association, several provincial branches of the national Environmental Health Association, and the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association of Ontario.
Lynn has received Environmental Health Awards from the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, the Canadian Society for Environmental Medicine, and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, as well as the Theratree Award of the General Practice Psychotherapy Association, and the Power of Humanity Award from the Canadian Red Cross- Ontario Division.