Dr. Anne Croy, an Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) DVM graduate and former faculty member in OVC’s Department of Biomedical Sciences, will present the 2019 Schofield Memorial Lecture focusing on “Opportunities and decisions create careers and define self.”
When:
Wednesday, November 13 at 3:30 PM
Where:
Room 1714 LLC
Reception
immediately following
Dr. Anne Croy received her DVM from the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) in 1969 and PhD in Medical Sciences (Immunology) from University of Toronto. She developed interests in Reproductive Biology and uterine Natural Killer (uNK) cell immunology as a part-time postdoctoral research fellow at Brock University, mentored by Dr. Janet Rossant.
From 1985 to 2004, Dr. Croy was a professor in the OVC’s Department of Biomedical Sciences with primary teaching duties in veterinary gross anatomy. Between 2004 and 2016, she held the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Reproduction, Development and Sexual Function at Queen’s University, Kingston where she became an adjunct and emeritus professor in 2017.
Dr. Croy has been widely recognized for her identification of uterine Natural Killer cells and her definition of their roles in promotion of early, post-implantation uterine angiogenesis using animal models (mice and pigs). As a consequence of her research findings, Dr. Croy’s central research interest became the acute, hypertensive emergency complication of human pregnancy known as pre-eclampsia. Her most recent work addressed this syndrome’s impacts on the vascular and neurological development of children whose gestations were complicated by this maternally-presented disease.
Dr. Croy was elected a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2012 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017.
