Dr. Karen Trollope-Kumar

Dr. Karen Trollope-Kumar serves as Chief Medical Officer at Body Brave, a Hamilton-based charitable organization focused on providing treatment and support for people with eating disorders. Body Brave has become a leader in the use of cutting-edge technology to empower people struggling with these complex brain-based illnesses.

Dr. Trollope-Kumar studied medicine at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. In her fourth year of medical studies, she met her future husband, Pradeep, on a student visit to Lucknow. After graduation, she worked as a family physician in Thunder Bay before moving to India to marry the man she loved. Their health work in the Himalayan foothills involved both hospital-based work as well as primary health care in remote villages.

After returning to Canada in 1996, Dr. Trollope-Kumar completed a Ph.D. in medical anthropology, the study of health in its social and environmental context. She worked as a family physician in Hamilton, both in the academic family medicine unit and in a community health centre. She also became actively involved in medical education at McMaster University, serving as co-director of the Professional Competencies program for six years.