Shoba Ranganathan

Shoba Ranganathan is currently the Acting Executive Director of the Department of National Defence (DND) Sexual Misconduct Response Centre, as of May 2022. She began her substantive position with the same organization as Director of Operations in March 2021.

Prior to this, in August 2011, Shoba began her position of Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer for the Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS) within the Department of National Defence. In fact, Shoba has spent the majority of her career working with and for DND, joining the Public Service in 2006 as the Quality Improvement (QI) Manager in Greenwood, Nova Scotia and then in Kingston, Ontario. Prior to that, Shoba was a healthcare placement coordinator with the health services support contract.

With a keen interest within quality and patient safety, Shoba completed a Master of Laws at Queen’s specializing in Health Law in 2012. Her project compared the national regulatory structure of flight safety in Canada and determined if a national patient safety framework could find similar successes. She also completed her Master in Health Services Administration from Dalhousie University in 2003 and holds a Master in Science in Anatomy and Cell Biology from Queen’s University.