New faculty spotlight: Chantal Mercier Laporte, MD

Chantal Mercier Laporte, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Chantal Mercier Laporte, MD
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor of anesthesiology, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
• Hometown: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

What drew me to anesthesiology:

The combination of broad medical and physiology knowledge and technical, hands-on approach.

Education and professional experience:

• MD, University of Montreal, 2011
• Anesthesiology, University of Montreal, 2016
• Vascular anesthesiology, University of Ottawa, 2017
• Perioperative echocardiography, UNMC, 2018
• Assistant professor at UNMC, 2018-2019
• Assistant professor at the Universite de Montreal in Quebec, Canada 2019-2023

Professional memberships:

• American Society of Echocardiography
• Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
• Association of Anesthesiology of Quebec

Three things people may not know about me:

• I lived in Japan for a year when I was a teenager.
• I finished in fourth place at Ontario’s provincial collegiate fencing tournament (epee) during my vascular fellowship.
• I enjoy long-distance backpacking and rock climbing.