Vision & Values

Our vision: The Montreal Children’s Hospital is a world-renowned pediatric hospital where everyone is devoted to putting the needs of children first.

Our values:

• Caring
• Patient and family-centred
• Culturally sensitive
• Collaborative and supportive
• Innovative and passionate
• Child advocacy

As a hospital within a hospital, the Montreal Children’s Hospital has its own administration and its own Advisory Board, called the Council for Services to Children and Adolescents (CSCA). The MCH’s executive team includes an associate executive director, associate director of professional services, associate director of nursing and associate director of hospital services. The MCH executive team works closely with their counterparts at the MUHC. 

Our Leadership: the Montreal Children’s Hospital’s organizational structure

• Martine Alfonso, Associate President and Executive Director, MUHC
• Dr. Robert Barnes, Associate Director of Professional Services
• Cindy McCartney, Associate Director of Nursing, Montreal Children’s Hospital and the Women’s Health Mission of the MUHC
• Frédéric De Civita, Associate Director of Multidisciplinary Services and Support Programs, Montreal Children’s Hospital and the Women’s Health Mission of the MUHC
• Dr. Jean-Pierre Farmer, Chief of Surgery, Chair of Department of Pediatric Surgery
• Dr. Bethany Foster, Pediatrician-in-Chief, McGill Chair of Pediatrics
• Dr. Bruce Mazer, Scientific Director, MCH Research Institute 
• Dr. Marie-Astrid Lefebvre, Infection Control
• Angela Perluzzo, Finance Manager
• Christine Bouthillier, Public Relations and Communications