Dr. Cynthia Maxwell

Dr. Cindy Maxwell is Vice President, Medical Affairs & System Transformation and Lead Medical Executive at Women’s College Hospital. She is an accomplished physician, researcher and educator who has been recognized as a transformative health system leader. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist as well as an Obesity Medicine Specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto. Her clinical and research interests are focused on disorders of pregnancy with an emphasis on pregnancies affected by obesity, malignancy, and other medical conditions, as well as reproductive issues affecting populations experience health gaps.

Dr. Maxwell is co-chair of the Wellness and Resilience Steering Committee at Women’s College Hospital.  As well, she is Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Maxwell co-leads N-ABL, the provincial network to support Black medical learners and is a past-President of the Black Physicians Association of Ontario. Dr. Maxwell is a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

She is Program Director of the Pregnancy Obesity Medicine and Surgery Fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Sinai Health and University of Toronto. Dr. Maxwell leads the Obesity Stream of the FIGO Committee on Impact of Pregnancy and Long-term Health.  She is a Member of the Governing Council of the Provincial Council on Maternal and Child Health.