- Elected in the 2011 federal election as the MP for Simcoe - Grey.
- Pediatric orthopedic surgeon and an associate professor of surgery.
- Earned her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Toronto in 1994, MBA from Dalhousie University in 1998, completed the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program in 2001 at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles/University of Southern California in 2002.
- Former Chair of the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership.
- Council member on the NRC (National Research Council of Canada), was a board member of Genome Canada, a director on the YMCA (GTA) board of directors, Vice-President of CANFAR (Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research) and founder of The Sandbox Project.
- In addition, Dr. Leitch has hosted an annual golf tournament to raise funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.