Dr Katherine Tourigny

Dr Katherine Tourigny is pursuing a DPhil in Clinical Neuroscience through NDCN. Katherine is supervised by Professor Timothy Denison, Mr Alex Green, and Dr Joram van Rheede.
Katherine completed her MD at the University of British Columbia and is a Neurosurgery Resident with the Dalhousie Division of Neurosurgery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Prior to starting the DPhil, Katherine completed the MSc Neuroscience at Oxford studying electrical artifact in deep brain stimulation (DBS) and hippocampal recordings in an animal model of fornix DBS.
Katherine is interested in functional neurosurgery and neuromodulation. Her current research in neuroengineering focuses on challenges of novel deep brain stimulation systems, inspired by her firsthand experience with patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures.