Steffanie Strathdee:
CLASS OF 1977
William G. Davis Public SchoolClass of 1977
Scarborough, ON
University of Toronto - Community HealthClass of 1994
Toronto, ON
University of Toronto - BiologyClass of 1988
Toronto, ON
Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate InstituteClass of 1984
Scarborough, ON
Joseph Howe Senior Public SchoolClass of 1980
Scarborough, ON
Steffanie's Story
Life
Steffanie A. Strathdee (nee Keith) earned her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1994. She married Steve Strathdee who died in 2012, with whom she had one son, Cameron. Steffanie is an infectious disease epidemiologist who has spent the last two decades focusing on underserved, marginalized populations in developed and developing countries. Since January, 2004, she has been the Harold Simon Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Her recent work has focused on the prevention of ...Expand for more
blood borne infections and barriers to care among injection drug using populations, specifically HIV and viral hepatitis. She has played a leading role in evaluations of needle exchange programs in Canada and the United States and is engaged in several research projects, especially in Mexico. She and her husband, Thomas L. Patterson, are publishing their first book to be published in 2019, called "The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug". Steffanie's sisters, Jennifer (Keith) Onlock and Jill (Keith) Mitchell live in the surrounding Toronto area.
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