Karen Wins 2022 Innovator Award for Bridging Gaps in Health Care Inequities

MIMOSA CEO and co-founder, Dr. Karen Cross honored with the 2022 Innovator Award for bridging gaps in health care inequities.

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Dr. Karen Cross is the recipient of the 2022 Making Waves Innovator Award. This award recognizes and encourages a Nova Scotia Health researcher/research team who has developed a new process, product or technology that has potential to make a positive impact on patient health or the health care delivery system.

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What does it mean to you to receive the 2022 Innovator Award?

“It is certainly an honour to be recognized. Everything that I have learned, has been taught to me by great people. They taught me how to do all the clinical, research and commercial facets of my job.

I’ve been able to take my experience and to bring it back to this province and work to solve existing health care problems.”

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As this year’s recipient of 2022 Innovator Award, how do you hope to inspire others who are working to make a difference in the lives of Nova Scotians each day?

“I ask myself what I am fighting for each day. This helps me identify my passion, what I want to change, what I am going to do. Then I put all my energy and knowledge behind it.

My advice to those who wish to make a difference in health care would be to put your passion behind it and then go find the network of people that you need to help move it forward. That's what I did and that eventually gave me the courage to do what I'm doing now.”