Clinical Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Dr Malhotra grew up in northern Saskatchewan and watched many women and girls, especially First Nations people have poor access to Culturally Safe care, especially for primary women’s health care. Her mother was a leader in change and she worked in her office for over a decade learning from her and from her community.

She graduated from residency in 2005 and created a Third Year Family Medicine Residency program in women’s health which she subsequently completed along with numerous training electives across the country, mostly focused on contraception and menopause.

She had a successful women’s health practice in Toronto and worked at the Bay Center for Birth Control for 3 years

She moved to Vancouver and took on the role of Medical Director of Options for Sexual Health. She held this role for 5 years overseeing - at that time- over 60 clinics. Options offers an incredible service to people rural and remotely as well as in urban centres in BC. Opt was a force in the forward motion towards free contraception in BC.

Dr Malhotra then started a practice at Crossroads Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Vancouver where she had a very successful women’s health practice for 7 years.

She took on the role Chair at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists research arm for 2 years which resulted in her being awarded the Western Canadian SOGC Achievement award

In parallel, still working towards increased access for rural and remote communities, she co created the UBC women’s health third year residency program for rural and remote Family Medicine residents which moved an urban hospital program to an accredited provincial one. She was Program Director for 10 years helping to fill care gaps province wide.

She took her current role as Medical
Officer of Women's Health at the First Nations Health Authority in 2017 and this has allowed her to focus heavily on access, equity and patient rights. This work has been alongside partners like BC cancer and helped to inform the need of having HPV testing in BC. She also works with the Canadian Senate on consent. The current state of the work is progress towards criminalization of non consensual sterilization has now passed from the Canadian Senate to Parliament, Dr Malhotra has co authored a joint statement, statements, and guidelines with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and SOGC on consent. She teaches on the topic regularly. She has testified twice at the Canadian Senate on this topic.

This work has led to her being awarded the National Reproductive Health Award (Federation of Medical Women) and being named one of Canada’s most inspiring 50 under 50 Indo Canadians in 2023.

Dr Malhotra is now at WestSide Medical while continuing her work on access and equity Provincially and Nationally.


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