The fonds contains the records of Marilou McPhedran dating from 1976-2006, primarily from 1989-2006.
These records relate to her positions as Corporate Director for Academic Women's Health at Women's College Hospital, executive member of the Friends of Women's College Hospital, co-chair of the Teaching to Promote Women's Health: An International Multidisciplinary Conference, and member of the Women's College Hospital Board of Directors.
The fonds document the Friends of Women's College Hospital's opposition to the proposed merger between Women's College Hospital and The Toronto Hospital, its legal challenge against the Health Services Restructuring Commission, the de-amalgamation of Women's College Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and the development of the New Women's College Hospital.
The fonds consists of correspondence, notebooks and handwritten notes, memoranda, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, press releases, reports, photographs, audio cassettes and video cassettes.
The fonds is arranged into eleven series: Friends of Women's College Hospital; Women's College Hospital and the Toronto Hospital Corporation merger related files; Teaching to Promote Women's Health conference records; Corporate Director, Academic Women's Health Partnerships files; legal and restructuring files series; Women's College Hospital Board of Directors records; Sunnybrook and Women's records; reproductive rights files; final report - task force on sexual abuse of patients; personal correspondence; and electronic files of Marilou McPhedran.