Surgeon General, Canadian Armed Forces
Hailing from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, MGen Scott Malcolm joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1999 through the Medical Officer Training Plan. Upon completion of his residency in Family Medicine he was posted to Canadian Forces Base Petawawa where he completed an operational tour to Bosnia and a mission with the Disaster Assistance Response Team to Sri Lanka. He completed two subsequent tours to Afghanistan, one to Kandahar as the Officer Commanding the Role 1 and the other to Kabul as physician team lead for the OPERATION ATTENTION training mission.
Trained as both a Flight Surgeon and Advanced Dive Medical Officer, he held positions as Base Surgeon at the clinics in both Kingston and Halifax. Following his role as Regional Surgeon (Atlantic) he was posted to Ottawa as medical advisor to the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy. Upon promotion to the rank of Colonel in 2015, MGen Malcolm became the Director of Force Health Protection and was subsequently posted to Canadian Forces College to complete the National Security Programme. Posted to Edmonton in June of 2018, he took Command of 1 Health Services Group.
He was then appointed as the Director of Health Services Operations upon posting back to Ottawa in October 2019, just in time for the SARS CoV-2 pandemic. In July of 2020 he assumed the position as Deputy Surgeon General. He was subsequently seconded to Public Health Agency of Canada from November 2020 to March 2021 as the Medical Advisor to the Vice President of Logistics and Operations, in support of the national roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine to Canadians. In June of 2021 he became the Commander of Health Services Division. On December 13, 2023, MGen Malcolm was appointed as the Surgeon General.
Committed to lifelong learning and designated a Canadian Certified Physician Executive, MGen Malcolm’s interests include leadership training, quality improvement, change management and design thinking.