Karen Born
Karen Born, MSc, PhD is Knowledge Translation Lead for the Choosing Wisely Canada . Choosing Wisely Canada is the national voice for reducing unnecessary tests and treatments in health care and is based at St. Michael’s Hospital, in partnership with the University of Toronto and Canadian Medical Association. She is responsible for the dissemination of Choosing Wisely Canada content to patients and the public. This includes leading media and public awareness campaigns to advance health literacy and knowledge about resource stewardship in health care. She also co-leads the integration of Choosing Wisely Canada and resource stewardship competencies into undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Karen organizes the Choosing Wisely international Collaboration, bringing together more than twenty-five countries from six continents. She serves as a Series Advisor with the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on a Choosing Wisely practice series. She is a member of national and international research teams related to de-implementation, resource stewardship and health system sustainability. This research includes approaches to pandemic recovery which optimize limited health system resources and prioritize high value, sustainable health care. Karen holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD from the University of Toronto. She is an assistant professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation and teaches on knowledge translation, qualitative research methods, quality improvement, value and sustainability.