Full Name
Karen Doucette
Job Title
Professor of Medicine
Company/Institution/ Organization
university of alberta
Speaker Bio
Dr. Doucette is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta and the Alberta Health Services Section Chief for Transplantation in Edmonton, Alberta. Canada. She completed her MD at Dalhousie University, Internal Medicine at Queen’s University and subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba. While at University of Manitoba she undertook additional subspecialty training in viral hepatitis and liver disease. In 2003 she completed a clinical and research fellowship in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a Master’s in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health in 2007.
Her clinical and research interests are in infections in immunocompromised hosts, particularly solid organ transplant recipients, and viral hepatitis. She has published over 90 peer reviewed manuscripts and authored or co- authored several book chapters in addition to both national and international guidelines in the fields of transplantation and viral hepatitis.. In 2021 was awarded the Canadian Society of Transplantation’s Clinician Recognition Award for contributions in the area of viral hepatitis and organ donation and transplantation.
Her clinical and research interests are in infections in immunocompromised hosts, particularly solid organ transplant recipients, and viral hepatitis. She has published over 90 peer reviewed manuscripts and authored or co- authored several book chapters in addition to both national and international guidelines in the fields of transplantation and viral hepatitis.. In 2021 was awarded the Canadian Society of Transplantation’s Clinician Recognition Award for contributions in the area of viral hepatitis and organ donation and transplantation.
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