Dr. Karen M. Fung Kee Fung, MD

Biography

Dr. Fung-Kee-Fung obtained her medical degree from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and completed Residency training in OB/GYN at Memorial and University of Manitoba. She pursued Subspecialty training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Winnipeg in 1988 then at the North American epicentre of research and innovation in management of alloimmunization and Rhesus disease. In 2001 she completed her Master’s Degree in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago and has had numerous leadership roles in education locally as Program Director for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Training Program and at the RCPSC as Chair of the MFM Specialty Committee and Exam Board . Her clinical practice and research interests are in the areas of alloimmune diseases and complicated multiple pregnancies. She is the principal author of the national SOGC clinical practice guidelines on the Antenatal prevention of Rhesus disease (2013, 2018, 2024) and has authored numerous practice monographs on Erythroblastosis Fetalis for BMJ-On-Line. Since 2019 she has been the Chair of VISUOG, an on-line visual encyclopedia, of more than 300 chapters on imaging in obstetric and gynecological conditions and fetal anomalies, under the auspices of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (ISUOG). In her ongoing practice she continues to provide clinical leadership in management of this disease as a practicing Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Professor of OB/GYN at the University of Ottawa.

Disclosure

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