HERstory in Black: Krissy Doyle-Thomas

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Name: Krissy Doyle-Thomas

What she does: Krissy Doyle-Thomas is a Neuroscientist. She is the manager ofresearch operations at Toronto's Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Her research is focused on children with autism and spectrum disorders.

HERstory in Black: Krissy Doyle-Thomas

7 years ago

Duration 3:00

Krissy Doyle-Thomas is a Neuroscientist and a manager, research operations at Toronto's Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.

What inspired your career in Neuroscience?

When I was nine, my family and I migrated from Trinidad and two years prior my younger sister was born. And she was born with global developmental delay and she had some complicated situations at birth. My family was searching for answers. [As] a new immigrant family, it was hard to know where to go and how to get the help that we needed. And that really affected me. I wanted learn more about medical disorders and wanted to learn in an effort to help my family as well as help others. So, I went to school for psychology and then I took a course in the brain and that's where I fell in love. And that's when I started to specialize in neuroscience.