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Karen Doucette, MD

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Dr. Doucette completed her undergraduate (BSc) degree and MD at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Internal Medicine training at Queen’s University was followed by subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba. While at University of Manitoba she undertook additional subspecialty training in viral hepatitis. In 2003 she completed a clinical and research fellowship in Transplant Infectious Diseases under the supervision of Dr. Jay Fishman at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007 she completed a Master’s in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. She has been on staff at the University of Alberta since 2004 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. Her clinical and research interests are in viral hepatitis and infections in immunocompromised hosts. Dr. Doucette is engaged in national and international education committees, including the American Society of Transplantation ID Community of Practice and the Canadian Society of Transplantation; serves on the RCPSC ID Exam Board and is a member of the RCPSC Solid Organ Transplant Working Group which attained approval of an Area of Focused Competence (AFC) in Spring 2015. She was the Medical Director for the ID Hepatitis Support Program from 2006-April 2015, has been the Education Lead for the Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship since 2008 and appointed Division Director of Infectious Diseases in May 2015.