Vanessa Boudreau
Associate Professor, Surgery

Dr. Boudreau is a staff surgeon in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at St. Joseph's Healthcare and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University.
She achieved her MD in 2011 at the University of Montreal, Quebec and completed her General Surgery Residency at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec in 2016. She completed a Fellowship in Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton. Beginning in July 1, 2017, Dr. Boudreau was a Clinical Scholar in the Department of Surgery while she completed her Masters in Health Research and Methodology at McMaster University.
Dr. Boudreau is the provincial co-chair for Project ECHO OBN (Ontario Bariatric Network) and the ECHO OBN regional lead for the Hamilton Bariatric Centre of Excellence site.
She sits on the Board of Directors for CABPS (Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons). She was also involved in the Weight Regain provincial task force for OBN and is currently leading the Duodenal Switch provincial task force for OBN.
Dr Boudreau is the Undergraduate Clerskship CTU surgical director for St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and is the chair of the Competency Committee for the General Surgery program at McMaster University.
Dr. Boudreau is also the Assistant Director for the Advanced GI MIS Fellowship Program at St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
Her research interests focus mainly on metabolic surgery and include diabetes remission, weight regain and revisional surgery.