Surgeon-Scientist
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kathryn completed her PhD at McMaster University in the Molecular Immunology, Virology and Inflammation program. Kathryn went to medical school at the University of Toronto and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Sick Kids, publishing in several fields during this time, including infection and immunity in HIV, ethics and sustainability in global surgery, and ischemia-reperfusion. She has been awarded competitive Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowships throughout her research training. As part of her Vascular Surgery residency, Kathryn completed a clinical and research fellowship at Stanford University and established her own bench research program investigating the role of endothelial microRNA in vascular disease. Kathryn began her first academic appointment at the University of Toronto and University Health Network on August 1, 2018. Her clinical initiative is carotid revascularization and stroke prevention, work that dovetails with Kathryn’s bench research program on endothelial biology and stroke. Kathryn is a Surgeon-Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. Her CIHR-funded research program is looking at the role of endothelial activation on microRNA regulation in atherosclerosis and uses cell culture and animal models, as well as human tissue from the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Biobank. She has received prestigious National (Heart and Stroke) and International (Wylie Scholar) Awards and is training highly successful graduate students. Kathryn’s ultimate goal is to develop innovative strategies for improved risk assessment and intervention in advance of devastating clinical events such as stroke.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM ET
The Endothelial Cell is the Superhero of the Vascular System
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
10:37 AM – 10:47 AM ET