Louise Nasmith has been Principal of the College of Health Disciplines at the University of British Columbia since 2007. She was previously Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto from 2001-2007, and the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McGill from 1995-2002.

Her scholarship has centred on medical education resulting in her obtaining a Master’s of Education from McGill in 1994 and a series of publications and presentations in this area. In addition she has been involved in a number of projects that focus on integration of care for chronic illness and on interprofessional care and education. She was a member of the National Expert Committee on Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice, a Health Canada initiative. This involvement allowed her to bring the broader perspective of the role of interprofessional team-based care in the Canadian health care system into her academic and clinical work.