Karen is a published writer, journalist, content writer and editor. She has significant experience writing engaging content for diverse audiences across a variety of platforms – including blogs and social media. As an Associate Editor and Social Media Specialist of a business publication, she wrote content, a corporate blog, an e-newsletter and helped expand social media platforms and increase monthly UVs. Her blog runningonrosehip.com on natural, healthy living, offers her own unique, integrated perspective on women’s health (including pelvic health and endometriosis), nutrition and fitness trends in Canada.

Karen was a medical writer for the Medical Post in Toronto, where she interviewed national and international health-care providers, reported on medical conferences and wrote on topics ranging from family medicine to psychiatry, rural medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology. She was also an in-house Ob-Gyn Staff Writer for the publication and wrote a number of feature articles, ranging from the charitable medical exchange program CISEPO to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

She has also written for a number of magazines. Her article “Sleep Therapy” was featured in Chatelaine, and covered sleep tips from a leading sleep researcher at Queen’s University. Her article “Born to Walk” was published in the inaugural issue of Canadian Health.

You may have seen her Health/Living Well column for Kingston Life. Or you may have read her article in the Queen’s Alumni Review on Jane Hall, one of the first women to join the RCMP and the author of “The Red Wall”.  

Karen’s articles have been published in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, Gastroenterology Canada, Dermatology Times of Canada, Medical Post, Nutrition Post, Queen’s Alumni Review, Queen’s Gazette, (e)Affect Research Magazine, Chatelaine, Canadian Health, Kingston Life, Great Rated! – Great Place to Work, and Your Workplace magazine, a business magazine devoted to fostering healthy workplaces and progressive businesses in Canada.