Lise Poirier-Groulx, MD
Dr. Poirier-Groulx is a graduate of the University of Ottawa Family Medicine Residency Program. She obtained her fellowship in the College of Family Physicians of Ontario. She is a certificant of the General Practice Psychotherapy Association. She is currently a part-time lecturer for the Family Medicine Department at the University of Ottawa, is a member of ACTheals (Association of Christian Therapists), giving talks in North America on topics regarding spiritual and developmental disability issues, and has focused her practice on medical psychotherapy for the past 14 years. She does therapy with those who have developmental disabilities such as Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum disorder, and their families. She was a founder of the Adult Down Syndrome Medical Clinic in Ottawa in 2004, the first specialized medical clinic in Canada for adults with Down Syndrome. She has a 16-year-old son with Down syndrome and complex congenital heart disease, whose story has been published as The Case Study of C G in the Journal of Christian Healing, Spring/Summer 2007, and in Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics by Melinda Tankard Reist, 2006.