Alexandra King

Dr. Alexandra King

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Internal Medicine Specialist at Saskatchewan Health Authority | Adjunct Professor, Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

 Nipissing First Nations woman | Cameco Chair in Indigenous Health and Wellness at the University of Saskatchewan


NMD4C Involvement: Theme 2: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII)

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Research Interests: Indigenous wellness, Land- and culture-based healing and research, Indigenous research ethics, Indigenous people and HIV, HCV and co-infections, Health system and service transformation

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Biography

Dr.Alexandra King is a member of Nipissing First Nation (Ontario). Alexandra is the Cameco Chair in Indigenous Health and Wellness at the University of Saskatchewan and co-leads Pewaseskwan(the Indigenous Wellness Research Group).She supports Indigenous communities in improving health and wellness outcomes at the individual, family and community levels.Alexandra brings leadership skills in culturally safe and responsive research and care.Her work is grounded in reconciliation, etuaptmumk(Two-eyed Seeing), which brings together Indigenous and Western worldviews or forms of knowledge,and Ethical Space—which needs to be created when peoples with disparate worldviews engage with each other. Alexandra serves on many local, national and international initiatives. She co-leads both the Indigenous and Equity/Diversity/Inclusion platforms for the Canadian Network on Hepatitis C (CanHepC)and co-leads the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Working Group of the CANadian Consortium of Clinical Trial TRAINing platform (CANTRAIN).She is a member of theCIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health Advisory Board and the Treasurer for the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR).She is co-visionary of Mitewekan (Cree, meaning the spirit behind the heatbeat), which comprises Indigenous Elders,Knowledge Holders, people with lived/living experience of health conditions and Indigenous health leaders from across Canada, as well as our allies,in guiding the Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada (CANet),the Canadian Heart Function Alliance and the Brain-Heart Interconnectome on culturally safe and responsive heart care and research.She is also active in the USask community. She is a Sex and Gender Champion, and has supported the establishment of the Department of Indigenous Health and Wellness in the College of Medicine.She has been a member of the Active Medical Staff for the Saskatchewan Health Authority since October 2019 doing mostly out-patient medicine.She is an Internal Medicine Specialist with a focus on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV/HCV co-infections.She has chaired and co-chaired national and international conferences, including the Indigenous DOHaD Gathering (August 2022), the 3rdWorld Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Viral Hepatitis (June 2022) and the 28th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (May 2019), and served on Scientific/Organizing Committee of others, including the World Indigenous Cancer Conference (September 2019) and several CanHepC Symposia. Alexandra supervises graduate students at Simon Fraser University and the University of Saskatchewan, focusing on wellness intervention research with Indigenous people in the areas of land-based healing, health determinants, mental health and addiction, blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections and justice health (prisoner health). Alexandra got her MD at the University of Toronto in 2009, completed her core internal medicine residency at the University of Alberta, and did a general internal medicine fellowship at the University of British Columbia.She also has a BSc, Honours, University of Toronto(2005) and BBA, Honours, St. Francis Xavier University(1994).


Recent Publications

Heidebrecht, L, Iyer, S, Laframboise, SL, Madampage, C, King, A. "Every One of Us Is a Strand in That Basket": Weaving Together Stories of Indigenous Wellness and Resilience From the Perspective of Those With Lived and Living Experience With HIV/Hepatitis C Virus. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. .33 (2)189-201 PMID:34806860

Boyer, K, Orpin, P, King, AC. 'I come for the friendship': Why social eating matters. Australas J Ageing. 2016.35 (3)E29-31 PMID:27061236

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