Dr. Ariane Godbout is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal where she completed her specialist training and obtained her certificate from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism. She then traveled to Paris to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital to complete a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and high-risk pregnancy.
She is currently an endocrinologist at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and at the Clinique de procréation assistée du CHUM. Clinically, she specializes in diabetes and pregnancy as well as reproductive endocrinology. She is responsible for the endocrine and metabolic component of the high-risk pregnancy clinic at the Birth Centre and the fertility clinic at the CHUM. She is a clinical associate professor at the Université de Montréal and actively contributes to teaching activities.
As a clinical investigator at the CRCHUM, her research focuses on improving care for diabetic patients during pregnancy and the periconception period, preventing short- and long-term complications in infertile couples, and the determinants of fetal, maternal and family health.
As Chair-Elect of the Canadian Task Force on Diabetes in Pregnancy (CanDIPS), she works closely with key maternal health stakeholders in Canada and internationally and helped draft the Canadian Guidelines on Diabetes in Pregnancy, which were released in April 2018. She joined the clinique ovo team in 2013.