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Dr Kelly Metcalfe

Dr. Kelly Metcalfe is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute. Dr. Metcalfe’s research focuses on the prevention and treatment of breast and ovarian cancer in women with a genetic predisposition for cancer. She has led international studies resulting in seminal research papers on the topic of treatment of BRCA-associated breast cancer. Dr. Metcalfe is using those research findings to test new models of care to ensure that women have access to genetic testing at the time of cancer diagnosis to make informed decisions about treatments. Dr. Metcalfe is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the American Academy of Nursing, the Canadian Academy of Nursing, and is a Member of the New College of Scholars in the Royal Society of Canada.