Dr. Sarah-Lynn Newbery, completed medical school at McMaster and family medicine training in Thunder Bay.  A fellow of both the CFPC and the SRPC, she has been a rural physician in comprehensive community practice in Marathon since 1996 where she was Chief of Staff of North of Superior Health Care Group for 16 years.   

She is a past President of the OCFP and past VP Clinical for the NW LHIN region of Ontario. She is currently the Associate Dean of Physician Workforce Strategy at NOSM University and is on several provincial health and HHR related committees.

She is a mom to two now grown sons, Mateo and Ari, and partner to Eli Orrantia who is also a rural family physician in Marathon. She is passionate about access to care for citizens of Canada’s rural and indigenous communities and continues to work imperfectly every day as a rural generalist clinician.