Dr. Catrina Loucks is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, Pharmacology &Therapeutics), an Investigator at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and a Member of the Academy of Translational Medicine. She hasexperience uncovering genetic causes for rare disorders from her MSc work at the University of Calgary, under the supervision of Drs. Micheil Innes andJillian Parboosingh. She then sought to explore functional impacts of uncovered genetic mutations by pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Dr. MichelLeroux at Simon Fraser University, using the simple roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, as a model. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of BritishColumbia, Catrina worked with Dr. Bruce Carleton and the Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety to understand how genetic variationcontributes to variable responses to medication. Her current research program, the CFI-JELF funded Loucks Pain Management Pharmacogenomics Lab,is developing a pipeline from genetic discoveries to predictive genetic testing to help select the safest and most effective pain relievers for children.

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Pharmacogenomics, Pain and pain management, Precision medicine, Drug safety and effectiveness – Children

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ORCID: 0000-0003-1167-3721

The Loucks Pain Management Pharmacogenomics Lab partners with clinicians to advance the discovery, validation and implementation of geneticpredictors of individual pain/opioid responses.

Member, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Research Advisory Committee, University of British Columbia Expert PanelMember, Motile Ciliopathy Gene Curation Expert Panel, Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen): https://www.clinicalgenome.org/affiliation/40102/

PCTH 325, PCTH 404, PCTH 548F, WACH 501, PHAR 302, GSAT 502