Karen Doucette

Area of Study / Keywords

immunocompromised hosts hepatitis B hepatitis C infectious complications of organ transplant donor derived infection

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About

Divisional:  780-492-5936

Clinical:  780-492-7686

Dr. Doucette is Professor of Medicine and Division Director of Infectious Diseases. She 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 and liver disease. In 2003 she completed a clinical and research fellowship in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007 she completed a Master’s in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. She joined the University of Alberta in 2004 and in 2015, she was appointed Divisional Director.

Her clinical and research interests are in infections in immunocompromised hosts, particularly solid organ transplant recipients, and viral hepatitis. She was the Medical Director for the Infectious Diseases Hepatitis Support Program from 2006-April 2015 and led the Transplant Infectious Diseases Clinical Program from 2004 to 2008 as well as the Transplant ID Fellowship Program from 2008-2020. She has published over 60 peer reviewed manuscripts as well as authored or co- authored several book chapters and both national and international guidelines in the fields of transplantation and viral hepatitis. She has delivered many international and national scientific lectures, as well as over 200 CME sessions regionally and nationally. In 2016 she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation and in 2021 was awarded the Canadian Society of Transplantation’s Clinician Recognition Award for contributions to program development, innovation and education, notably in the area of viral hepatitis and organ donation and transplantation.

Clinical Interests

Infections in immunocompromised hosts

Viral hepatitis

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Research

• Epidemiology and outcomes of infections in organ transplant recipients
• Epidemiology and quality of care in viral hepatitis in immunocompromised and immune competent host
  
• Clinical trials
  

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Teaching

• Clinical skills and small group learning in UGME/PGME
• Education Lead, Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship
• Alberta Transplant Institute, Education Committee Member
• Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada Infectious Diseases Exam Board Member
• Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, Solid Organ Transplant Area of Focused Competence (AFC; diploma) Committee Member
• Canadian Society of Transplantation, Education Committee

Robbins M., Doucette K.

Transplant Infectious Disease. 2022 August; 24 (4) 10.1111/tid.13871

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Infectious Complications in Biologic and Targeted Therapies. 2022 June; ISBN-13: 9783031113628

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Canadian Liver Journal. 2022 May;

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Osiowy C., Swidinsky K., Haylock-Jacobs S., Sadler M.D., Fung S., Wong D., Minuk G.Y., Doucette K.E., Wong P., Tam E., Cooper C., Ramji A., Ma M., Nudo C., Tsoi K., Coffin C.S.

J Hep Reports. 2022 May; 4 (5) 10.1016/j.jhepr.2022.100461

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Chen J.Z., Hoang H.L., Yaskina M., Kabbani D., Doucette K.E., Smith S.W., Lau C., Stewart J., Zurek K., Schultz M., Cervera C.

PLoS One. 2022 March; 17 (3 March) 10.1371/journal.pone.0265493

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Bégin P., Callum J., Cook R., Jamula E., Liu Y., Finzi A., Heddle N.M., Tinmouth A., Zeller M.P., Beaudoin-Bussières G., Amorim L., Bazin R., Loftsgard K.C., Carl R., Chassé M., Cushing M.M., Daneman N., Devine D.V., Dumaresq J., Fergusson D.A., Gabe C., Glesby M.J., Li N., McGeer A., Robitaille N., Sachais B.S., Scales D.C., Schwartz L., Shehata N., Turgeon A.F., Wood H., Zarychanski R., Arnold D.M., Marceau D., Huang A., Carr H., Lin Y., Lall R., Graham C., Arsenault C., Sales V., Sidhu D., Semret M., Hamm C., Arhanchiague E., Solh Z., Srour N., Soliman K., Yee C., Laroche V., Nahirniak S., Greenaway C., Pai M., Côté A., Tsang J.L.Y., Cserti-Gazdewich C., Talbot D., Poulin S., Guimaraes R., Rushton-Marovac M., Langlois A., Ning S., Shih A., Boileau M., Singh H., Ledingham D., Ponnampalam A., Yan M., Prokopchuk-Gauk O., Poirier A., Girouard G., Pavenski K., Drouin O., Harris D., Durand M., Rimmer E., Ovakim D., Ménard F., Cuccarolo G., Carruthers J., Lucier K., Arsenault V., Auclair M.C., Avram M., Brassard M., Cerro S., Martinez V., Morin J., Saint-Jacques M., Veillette M., Armali C., Kron A., Modi D., Duncan J., Justumus P., St John M., St-Onge G., Hadzi-Tosev M., Dion P.M., McGillivary L., Valleteau de Moulliac A., Nyman S.A., Perilli S., Van Vliet P.J., Lane S., Pereira R., Sirotich E., Abelson J., Greene S., Khandelwal A., Thakar S., Longo S., Anand S.P., Benlarbi M., Bourassa C., Boutin M., Descôteaux-Dinelle J., Gendron-Lepage G., Goyette G., Laumaea A., Medjahed H., Prévost J., Richard J., Kaufmann D., Brunet-Ratnasingham E., Chaumont N., Drebot M., Robinson A., Mendoza E., Dimitrova K., Manguiat K., Phillipson C., Chan M., Evans D., Lin J., Boyer L., Cloutier M., Drouin M., Ducas É., Dussault N., Fournier M.J., Landy P., Nolin M.È., Perreault J., Tremblay T., Nazy I., Xie F., Liu D., Wong M., Silverio G., Walkus K., Barton M., Haveman K., Mueller D., Scott A., Moher M., Wood G., Roarty T., Auld F., Carney G., Thomson V., Onell R., Walley K., Donohoe K., Brunk C., Hernandez G., Jacobucci T., Lazosky L., Mann P., Raval G., Zampieri L.A., Sekhon M., Wright A., James N., Chang G., Chen R., Deol K., Gantioqui J., Larsen E., Ramdin N., Roche M., Rosinski K., Sham L., Storms M., Gillrie M., Mahe E., Suryanarayan D., Ugarte-Torres A., Robinson T., Gibbs M., Hewsgirard J., Holmes M., McCarthy J., Ody M., Doucette K., Sligl W., Sonpar A., Robertson K., Narayan J., Ravindran L., Stewart B., Zapernick L., Lee S., Sy E., Wong A., Gryzb K., Craddock S., Fuchs D., Myrah D., Sunny S., Harding S.R., Kogilwaimath S., Hodgson N., Johnson D., Meier S., Thomson K., Heendeniya A., Houston B., Kenyan Y., Lother S., Olafson K., Rush B., Wuerz T., Solvason D., Albensi L., Alias S., Choi N., Curtis L., Hutmacher M., Kashani H., Lane D., Marten N., Pronyk-Ward T., Rigaux L., Silva R., Tays Q., Naidu R., Mathews J., Mai M., Miceli V., Molson L., Radhakrishnan G., Schaefer L., Haddad M., Landry S., Chernish R., Kruisselbrink R., Liu T., Jeromin J., Siddiqui A., Girolametto C., Krokoszynski K., Main C., Fox-Robichaud A., Rochwerg B., Kruja E., Ellingham D., Sampat D., Tang N., Leto D., Karunakaran M., Ricciuto D., Fusco K., Ghate T., Robinson H., Ball I., Shalhoub S., Slessarev M., Silverman M., Nano E., Bentall T., Campbell E., Kinney J., Parvathy S., Fera E., La Delfa A., Nadarajah J., Solow H., Engel K., Monaco D., Kononow L., Suntharalingam S., Fralick M., Munshi L., Saeed S., Hajjaj O., Hsu E., Ali K., Duan E., Farjou G., Jenson L., Salib M., Patterson L., Anant S., Ding J., Jomy J., Das P., Geagea A., Ingber S., Owen E., Lostun A., Albano T., Chatterjee A., Giraldo M., Hickey J., Lee I., Okada N., Pasquale N., Ponzielli R., Rahmat M., Sabur S., Schlag M., Aguiar L., Damani A., Hong S., Kokabi M., Perkins C., Cowan J., Giulivi T., MacFadden D., Cyr J., Pecarskie A., Porteous R., Vedder P.O., Watpool I., Berardi P., Bustani L., Graver A., Iyengar A., Kisilewicz M., et al

NATURE MEDICINE. 2022 January; 28 (1):53-58 10.1038/s41591-021-01639-5

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Hernandez C., Mabilangan C., Burton C., Doucette K., Preiksaitis J.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION. 2021 December; 21 (12):3958-3970 10.1111/ajt.16734

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Bégin P., Callum J., Jamula E., Cook R., Heddle N.M., Tinmouth A., Zeller M.P., Beaudoin-Bussières G., Amorim L., Bazin R., Loftsgard K.C., Carl R., Chassé M., Cushing M.M., Daneman N., Devine D.V., Dumaresq J., Fergusson D.A., Gabe C., Glesby M.J., Li N., Liu Y., McGeer A., Robitaille N., Sachais B.S., Scales D.C., Schwartz L., Shehata N., Turgeon A.F., Wood H., Zarychanski R., Finzi A., Marceau D., Huang A., Carr H., Lin Y., Lall R., Graham C., Arsenault C., Sales V., Sidhu D., Semret M., Hamm C., Arhanchiague E., Solh Z., Srour N., Soliman K., Yee C., Laroche V., Nahirniak S., Greenaway C., Pai M., Côté A., Tsang J.L.Y., Cserti-Gazdewich C., Talbot D., Poulin S., Guimaraes R., Rushton-Marovac M., Langlois A., Ning S., Shih A., Boileau M., Singh H., Ledingham D., Ponnampalam A., Yan M., Prokopchuk-Gauk O., Poirier A., Girouard G., Pavenski K., Drouin O., Harris D., Durand M., Rimmer E., Ovakim D., Ménard F., Cuccarolo G., Carruthers J., Lucier K., Auclair M.C., Avram M., Brassard M., Cerro S., Martinez V., Morin J., Saint-Jacques M., Veillette M., Armali C., Kron A., Modi D., Duncan J., Justumus P., John M.S., St-Onge G., Hadzi-Tosev M., Dion P.M., McGillivary L., de Moulliac A.V., Nyman S.A., Perilli S., Van Vliet P.J., Lane S., Pereira R., Sirotich E., Abelson J., Greene S., Khandelwal A., Thakar S., Longo S., Anand S.P., Benlarbi M., Bourassa C., Boutin M., Descôteaux-Dinelle J., Gendron-Lepage G., Goyette G., Laumaea A., Medjahed H., Prévost J., Richard J., Kaufmann D., Brunet-Ratnasingham E., Chaumont N., Drebot M., Robinson A., Mendoza E., Dimitrova K., Manguiat K., Phillipson C., Chan M., Evans D., Lin J., Boyer L., Cloutier M., Drouin M., Ducas É., Dussault N., Fournier M.J., Landy P., Nolin M.È., Perreault J., Tremblay T., Nazy I., Xie F., Liu D., Wong M., Silverio G., Walkus K., Barton M., Haveman K., Mueller D., Scott A., Moher M., Wood G., Roarty T., Auld F., Carney G., Thomson V., Onell R., Walley K., Donohoe K., Brunk C., Hernandez G., Jacobucci T., Lazosky L., Mann P., Raval G., Zampieri L.A., Sekhon M., Wright A., James N., Chang G., Chen R., Deol K., Gantioqui J., Larsen E., Ramdin N., Roche M., Rosinski K., Sham L., Storms M., Gillrie M., Mahe E., Suryanarayan D., Ugarte-Torres A., Robinson T., Gibbs M., Hewsgirard J., Holmes M., McCarthy J., Ody M., Doucette K., Sligl W., Sonpar A., Robertson K., Narayan J., Ravindran L., Stewart B., Zapernick L., Lee S., Sy E., Wong A., Gryzb K., Craddock S., Fuchs D., Myrah D., Sunny S., Harding S.R., Kogilwaimath S., Hodgson N., Johnson D., Meier S., Thomson K., Heendeniya A., Houston B., Kenyan Y., Lother S., Olafson K., Rush B., Wuerz T., Solvason D., Albensi L., Alias S., Choi N., Curtis L., Hutmacher M., Kashani H., Lane D., Marten N., Pronyk-Ward T., Rigaux L., Silva R., Tays Q., Naidu R., Mathews J., Mai M., Miceli V., Molson L., Radhakrishnan G., Schaefer L., Haddad M., Landry S., Chernish R., Kruisselbrink R., Liu T., Jeromin J., Siddiqui A., Girolametto C., Krokoszynski K., Main C., Fox-Robichaud A., Rochwerg B., Kruja E., Ellingham D., Sampat D., Tang N., Leto D., Karunakaran M., Ricciuto D., Fusco K., Ghate T., Robinson H., Ball I., Shalhoub S., Slessarev M., Silverman M., Nano E., Bentall T., Campbell E., Kinney J., Parvathy S., Fera E., Delfa A.L., Nadarajah J., Solow H., Mendoza E., Engel K., Monaco D., Kononow L., Suntharalingam S., Fralick M., Munshi L., Saeed S., Hajjaj O., Hsu E., Ali K., Duan E., Farjou G., Jenson L., Salib M., Patterson L., Anant S., Ding J., Jomy J., Das P., Geagea A., Ingber S., Owen E., Lostun A., Albano T., Chatterjee A., Giraldo M., Hickey J., Lee I., Okada N., Pasquale N., Ponzielli R., Rahmat M., Sabur S., Schlag M., Aguiar L., Damani A., Hong S., Kokabi M., Perkins C., Cowan J., Giulivi T., MacFadden D., Cyr J., Pecarskie A., Porteous R., Vedder P.O., Watpool I., Berardi P. et al

NATURE MEDICINE. 2021 November; 27 (11):2012-2024 10.1038/s41591-021-01488-2

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Li D., Abele J., Weinkauf J., Kapasi A., Hirji A., Varughese R., Nagendran J., Lien D., Doucette K., Halloran K.

CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION. 2021 July; 35 (7) 10.1111/ctr.14315

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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada. 2021 July;

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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada. 2021 July;

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Friedman D.Z.P., Doucette K.

SEMINARS IN RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE. 2021 June; 42 (3):460-470 10.1055/s-0041-1727250

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Farag M.S., Fung S., Tam E., Doucette K., Wong A., Ramji A., Conway B., Cooper C., Tsoi K., Wong P., Sebastiani G., Brahmania M., Haylock-Jacobs S., Coffin C.S., Hansen B.E., Janssen H.L.A.

JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS. 2021 June; 28 (6):942-950 10.1111/jvh.13500

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Canadian Liver Meeting. 2021 May;

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Canadian Liver Meeting. 2021 May;

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Canadian Liver Meeting. 2021 May;

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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2021 April;

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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2021 April;

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Cooper C., Driedger M., Wong D., Haylock-Jacobs S., Aziz Shaheen A., Osiowy C., Fung S., Doucette K., Wong A., Barrett L., Conway B., Ramji A., Minuk G., Sebastiani G., Wong P., Coffin C.S.

JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS. 2021 March; 28 (3):517-527 10.1111/jvh.13453

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Parmar P., Shafran S.D., Borgia S.M., Doucette K., Cooper C.L.

JGH Open. 2021 February; 5 (2):253-257 10.1002/jgh3.12480

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Hernandez C., Mabilangan C., Burton C., Doucette K., Preiksaitis J.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION. 2021 January; 10.1111/ajt.16734

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Weyant R.B., Kabbani D., Doucette K., Lau C., Cervera C.

EXPERT OPINION ON PHARMACOTHERAPY. 2021 January; 10.1080/14656566.2021.1915989

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Parmar P., Shafran S.D., Borgia S.M., Doucette K., Cooper C.L.

JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY. 2020 December; 5 10.1002/jgh3.12480

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Hepatology Volume 72, Issue S1; Nov 2020. 2020 November;