Dr. Vicki Kristman

Dr. Vicki Kristman is a professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the founder, director and senior scientist at the EPID (Enhancing the Prevention of Injury and Disability) @Work Research Institute at Lakehead University (LU) in Thunder Bay, Ont. She also holds an adjunct appointment the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University and is an associate editor of the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation.

Kristman currently holds an LU-Ontario Research Chair in Injury & Disability Prevention. She has previously held a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award in community-based primary health care, focusing on preventing work disability through accommodation; a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship in work disability and epidemiology at the Toronto Western Research Institute, and was an associate scientist at the Institute for Work & Health.

Her research interests include understanding the influence of workplace factors on work-related injury and disability, specifically mental health and how these factors are distributed among the working population.

Kristman earned her MSc in epidemiology at Queen's University and her PhD in epidemiology at the University of Toronto.