Dr. Karen Yeates MD, FRCPC, MPH. is a graduate of McGill University (BSc 1993) and Queen’s University School of Medicine (1997). She is currently a Professor of Medicine and Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University. She co-founded (2012) and co-directed the Office of Global Health (ending in 2016) within the Faculty of Health Sciences. Dr. Yeates currently directs a program of global health implementation science research in low-resource settings in Tanzania with collaborative projects in other African countries. Dr. Yeates is considered a global leader in the development of mobile health interventions (mHealth) to improve detection and management of non-communicable diseases.  As a nephrologist, Dr. Yeates is also active in global nephrology initiatives and has served on multiple committees of the International Society of Nephrology and has served as an educational ambassador in building capacity in programs delivering kidney care (including dialysis) in low-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa.