Dr. Alexandra King MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor Department of MedicineDr. King is a citizen of the Nipissing First Nation (Ontario). She is an Internal Medicine Specialist with a focus on HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV/HCV co-infections. She 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 taught courses in Indigenous health at Simon Fraser University, where she also mentored the Faculty of Health Sciences in the implementation of their response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. In October 2017, Dr. King moved to Saskatoon to become the inaugural Cameco Chair in Indigenous Health and Wellness at the University of Saskatchewan. Her position is endowed by the Royal University Hospital Foundation’s Royal Care Campaign, and included a substantial gift from Cameco and generous support from the University of Saskatchewan, Department of Medicine. She and her husband, Prof. Malcolm King, co-lead Pewaseskwan (the Indigenous Wellness Research Group), which has teams at USask and Simon Fraser University. She and Pewaseskwan work with Indigenous communities and relevant stakeholders to understand the health and wellness needs of First Nation and Métis people in Canada and the structural changes required for improved Indigenous health outcomes. She brings leadership skills in culturally safe and responsive research and care, etuaptmumk (Two-eyed Seeing, the bringing together of Indigenous and Western worldviews or forms of knowledges) and Ethical Space, which needs to be created when peoples with disparate worldviews are poised to engage with each other. Dr. King also contributes to decolonization and reconciliation at USask.
Research Area(s)
- Indigenous health, Indigenous wellness, Indigenous methodologies, HIV, HCV, STBBI, heart disease, Kennedy's disease