Kathryn Dong

Kathryn Dong, MD, MSc, FRCP, DRCSPC, is an addiction medicine physician at the Royal
Alexandra Hospital (RAH) in Edmonton, Alberta. She co-developed and was the medical lead for the Addiction Recovery and Community Health (ARCH) Team, an addiction medicine consult service that was first implemented at the RAH in 2014. Prior to this, she worked as an emergency physician at the RAH and Stollery Children’s hospital.

Kathryn is currently the Alberta Health Services Chair in Emergency Medicine Research and the Social Accountability Lead for the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta. Her research and advocacy work focuses on improving acute care medical services for people who use substances.

Selected Publications

Khangura J, Umpherville L, Dong K. “We are all connected: reimagining care for people experiencing houselessness” Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025;27:324-326.

Hayward J, Rosychuk RJ, McRae AD, Sinnarajah A, Dong K, Tanguay R, Montgomery A, Huang A, Innes G. “Effect of emergency department opioid prescribing on health outcomes” CMAJ 2025 February 10;197:E122-30.

Dong KA, Yoon MN, Smith K, Joseph N. “Using the Indicators for Social Accountability Tool (ISAT) in Health Professions Education to Develop a Social Accountability Action Plan for a Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry” Social Innovations Journal 2024;26.

Dong KA, Duthie, KM. “How Should Risks and Benefits of Short-Acting Opioids Be Evaluated in the Care of Inpatients with OUD?” AMA J Ethics 2024;26(7):E512-519. doi:10.1001/amajethics.2024.512.

Englander H, Thakrar AP, Bagley SM, Rolley T, Dong K, Hyshka E. “Caring for Hospitalized Adults with Opioid Use Disorder in the Era of Fentanyl: A Review” JAMA Internal Medicine 2024;184(6):691-701.