Director General Clinical Services
Brigadier‑General Rideout is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and began his professional career as a high school teacher before entering medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1996. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1999.
His early service included appointments as Unit Medical Officer with 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, and 2 Service Battalion during a posting to 2 Field Ambulance in Petawawa.
He has held a range of senior medical leadership positions, including Brigade Surgeon, 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group; Base Surgeon, Canadian Forces Base Halifax; Command Surgeon, Canadian Armed Forces Special Operations Forces Command; and Command Surgeon, Canadian Army. At the executive level, he served as Director Medical Policy and Director Health Services Operations.
Brigadier‑General Rideout holds a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina, post-graduate program in Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University, a Master of Public Administration from the Royal Military College of Canada and is a graduate of the National Security Program at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He has deployed on multiple international operations, including missions to Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Lebanon.
His professional interests include health system performance, governance, and the delivery of sustainable health services.