Gertrude Bourdon

Gertrude Bourdon (ca 1955) is a Canadian health professional and politician. Bourdon was educated at the Polyvalente de Saint-Prosper and the

Cégep Limoilou Cégep Limoilou is a French-language CEGEP in the province of Quebec, situated in La Cité-Limoilou, a borough of Quebec City. Cégep Limoilou offers pre-university and technical programs, continuing education and corporate services. It has 6 ...

. She went on to study nursing at the

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and public administration at the

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. In 2009, she was named director general for the

Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec ''Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec'' (CHUQ) is a network of three teaching hospitals affiliated with the medical school of ''Université Laval'' and several specialized institutions in Quebec City. It was created by the merger in Dece ...

(CHUQ). In 2012, she was responsible for the union of the Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec with the CHUQ. She then became president/director-general of the amalgamated network of hospitals. She resigned her position in August 2018 to run for political office. Bourdon was recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 most influential women by the Women's Executive Network in 2014. In 2016, she was named to the by the . She was awarded the Prix Rachel-Bureau by the Ordre régional des infirmières et infirmiers de Québec. In 2018, she was named an Officer in the

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. Following her resignation, Bourdon announced that she would run as a

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candidate in the riding of

Jean-Lesage Jean-Lesage is a provincial electoral district in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of parts of the Beauport and La Cité-Limoilou boroughs of Quebec City. It wa ...

in the

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. She had already refused an offer to run as a candidate for the

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