Dr. Colleen Norris is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing. She is the CAVARZAN Chair in Women’s Health Research, Research Director of the CKHUI/LHHS Women’s Heart Health Collaborative, a WCHRI investigator, and an adjunct professor with the Faculties of Medicine and the School of Public Health Science at the UA. Her PhD, is in clinical epidemiology.
Dr. Norris, a Nurse by training, is the past Chair of the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance (CWHHA), Health Policy and Services (HP&S) working group, whose mandate is to implement policies that advance our understanding of the unique sex and gender factors affecting the outcomes of women’s heart health. She is the co-lead of the Women’s Heart Health Atlas which is curated as an open access chapters on the Can Journal of Cardiology Open website (https://www.cjcopen.ca/womens_heart_health_alliance).
Dr. Norris is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, a Fellow of the European Cardiovascular Society and the CO-PI in a CIHR/GENDER-NET Plus research project- GOING-FWD, an international collaborative of researchers from 5 countries, evaluating the impact of sex and gender factors on outcomes. Dr. Norris has mentored over 90 students/trainees. She has presented extensively and has over 400 publications in the areas of sex and gender differences in cardiovascular treatment and outcomes, and women’s heart health.
