Karen Kopciuk is a Research Scientist in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Cancer Care Alberta, Alberta Health Services and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary (UC) in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Oncology and Community Health Sciences (CHS). She is a member of the Alberta Tomorrow Project Scientific Steering Committee and is active in a number of roles at the University of Calgary (UCalgary Biostatistics Centre executive and education committee, Rocky Mountain Data Science Network). She is on several committees with the Statistical Society of Canada and is a board member of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. Her research interests in statistical methods include time-to-event models and variable selection methods with applications in genetics and cancer and collaborative research in cancer screening, particularly with Indigenous partners.