Kathryn Dong, MD, MSc, FRCPC, DRCPSC
Pronouns: she/her
Personal Website: https://www.ichwp.ca
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Department of Emergency Medicine
- kathryni@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4716
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
substance use emergency medicine population health
About
Dr. Kathryn Dong is the Social Accountability Lead for the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and the Alberta Health Services Chair in Emergency Medicine Research. Dr. Dong completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Alberta in 2004 and then went on to complete additional certification in addiction medicine. She also completed a Masters in Population Health which examined the morbidity and mortality associated with opioid toxicity in Edmonton. Her clinical work is as an inpatient addiction medicine physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Research
Dr. Dong is an Associate Scientific Director of the Inner City Health and Wellness Program. Her research focuses on improving health care access and outcomes for people who use substances accessing care in emergency department and hospital settings.
Teaching
Dr. Dong provides bedside and didactic clinical teaching. She is currently the Chair of the Addiction Medicine Area of Focused Competence Committee for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Featured Publications
Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2023 January; 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.02.007
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2023 January; 10.1007/s43678-023-00520-3
Sarah A. Weicker, Kelsey A. Speed, Elaine Hyshka, May Mrochuk, Brynn Kosteniuk, Kathryn Dong
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2022 March; 10.1007/s43678-021-00229-1
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2022 January; 10.1007/s43678-022-00303-2
Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 2022 January; 10.1186/s13011-022-00445-7
JACEP Open. 2022 January; 10.1002/emp2.12822
Harm Reduction Journal. 2022 January; 10.1186/s12954-022-00637-1
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021 January; 10.1007/s43678-021-00092-0
International Journal of Drug Policy. 2021 January; 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103275
JACEP Open. 2021 January; 10.1002/emp2.12409
CMAJ open. 2021 January; 10.9778/cmajo.20200190
Janusz Kaczorowski, Jaunathan Bilodeau, Aaron M Orkin, Kathryn Dong, Raoul Daoust, Andrew Kestler
Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020 November; 10.1111/acem.14054
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020 January; 10.1017/cem.2020.459
CMAJ. 2020 January; 10.1503/cmaj.191365
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2019 January; 10.1017/cem.2019.20
BMC health services research. 2019 January; 10.1186/s12913-019-4469-3
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2019 January; 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.06.025
Drug and Alcohol Review. 2019 January; 10.1111/dar.12930
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