Dr. Katie N. Dainty, PhD

Dr. Katie Dainty is a qualitative social scientist and Research Chair in Patient-Centered Outcomes at North York General Hospital. In addition to her appointment at NYGH, she is an Associate Professor and Director of the Health Systems Research Graduate Training Program in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto. Her research involves studying issues related to patient and family experience, implementation science, patient-centered outcome measures, and quality improvement in community health care environments. Her core program of research focuses on using robust qualitative methods to unpack long-held assumptions about bystander experience and survivorship following sudden cardiac arrest.