Karen L. Courtney

Dr. Karen Courtney is a Professor in the School of Health Information Science. She held a National Library of Medicine (NIH) Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Health Informatics Research while completing her PhD in Nursing at the University of Missouri - Columbia.

 She conducts research in virtual care and community-based health informatics projects. These projects have community-dwelling individuals at the center and focus on meeting the self-identified needs and values of patients and family caregivers. Her current funded work focuses on modernizing gender, sex and sexual orientation terminology and associated clinical practices with digital health information systems.  She is the lead of the inter-institutional Digital Health Equity Group and co-chair of the Sex and Gender Working Group at Canada Health Infoway. She has published numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and conference proceedings and edited four conference proceedings. She has been a primary investigator or co-investigator on a number of grants in Canada (CIHR, Health Research BC) and the United States (NIH, AHRQ). She is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. Karen served as Graduate Advisor at the School of Health Information Science (2013 – 2017; 2018 – 2024). She is a faculty affiliate member of the Institute of Aging and Lifelong Health and served as the Digital Health Cluster co-lead (2022 - 2024).

https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/karencourtney/

Some of the prior work of her students (theses and select research projects) may be accessed through UVic Space:  https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/communities/118e2b55-50e3-447b-9f0c-b69b4945f164

*Currently available to supervise MSc, MN/MSc and PhD students