After completing a bachelor of arts in world and comparative history at the University of Victoria and a medical degree at Queen’s University, Dr. Taylor studied anaesthesia at UBC.  She then spent several years working in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and was chief of anaesthesia at Qikiqtani

General Hospital from 2008 to 2010.  She joined MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders) in 2010 and has done more than 20 missions since, including to Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Syria, Libya, Gaza, Yemen, and Iraq, among others.  She spent a year with the MSF Emergency Pool (a rapid response team) based in

Paris, and has training and first-hand experience in war surgery, chemical weapons, mass casualty incidents, and responding to epidemics (including Ebola virus).  Dr. Taylor started working at VGH and UBC hospitals as a clinical associate in critical care in 2015, and contributes to educational activities both at UBC and overseas, as part of a Francophone MSF team teaching intensive care skills in developing countries.  She also has an interest in wilderness medicine, having provided medical services on expeditions to Antarctica and the Everest Base Camp area in Nepal.  In her spare time, she is a professional artist working in oil paints with gallery representation.