Kristin Kernohan

Recipient of the Jean Dussault Medal 2023

Kristin Kernohan completed her HB.Sc, Honours specialization in Genetics and Ph.D in Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario in 2018. After graduate school she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Care4Rare and CCMG training at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario before joining NSO in 2018. Dr. Kernohan is certified by the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists.  Her research interests include the identification of new disease genes and development of new technologies for newborn screening and molecular diagnostics.
She currently is Laboratory Head, Molecular Genetics at Newborn Screening Ontario, CHEO, and associate professor at the University of Ottawa.

Dr Kernohan is the recipient of a large number of awards and scholarships. She is the (co-) author of more than 80 peer reviewed papers.