Moira Kapral

Dr. Moira Kapral is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a staff physician at the Toronto General Hospital/University Health Network (UHN), where she attends on the inpatient General Internal Medicine Clinical Teaching Units and where she also holds the Lillian Love Chair in Women’s Health and is Director of the UHN Women’s Health Program.

She performs health services research with a focus on inequities in stroke care and outcomes. She is co-principal investigator of the Ontario Stroke Registry. She is a senior scientist at ICES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) and the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and is cross-appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She has held over $20 million in grant funding and has over 200 publications in the peer-reviewed literature. She has received the Osler Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine and the Dr. J. Edgar Kenton III Award for Disparities Research from the American Stroke Association.