Speakers
Dr. Kristen McAlpine, MD, FRCSC
Dr. Kristen McAlpine is a urologic oncologist at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario. She recently completed the Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship at The University of Toronto and remains active with the urologic oncology program at UofT. Dr. McAlpine is also completing a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology through the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at UofT with a thesis focusing on the use of machine learning to improve the personalization of care for patients with renal masses. Her research interests include personalizing the care of patients with urologic cancers, developing tools to improve shared decision-making for patients facing challenging decisions, optimizing peri-operative thromboprophylaxis strategies and assessing the outcomes of various urologic cancer surgeries.