Rate My Professor Fiona Kouyoumdjian

Fiona Kouyoumdjian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, where she also serves as Research Director. She holds an AB with Honors from Brown University, an MD from Dalhousie University, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. She completed residency training in family medicine and in public health and preventive medicine at the University of Toronto, as well as a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital. Kouyoumdjian is certified as a family physician (CCFP, FCFP) and as a public health and preventive medicine physician (FRCPC). She maintains additional affiliations as an Associate Member in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University and as an Adjunct Scientist at ICES.

In the Faculty of Medicine, Kouyoumdjian leads a program of research focused on the health status and health care needs of people who experience incarceration. This work examines prevention of incarceration, health care delivery within correctional facilities, and continuity of care following release, often in partnership with individuals with lived experience, government agencies, and other researchers. She has contributed to projects on topics including opioid agonist treatment in prisons, antenatal care and birth outcomes for incarcerated women, health care utilization after release, overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous populations in correctional facilities, and the impacts of COVID-19 on incarcerated populations. Kouyoumdjian has been recognized for excellence in postdoctoral supervision within the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University.