Janie Astephen Wilson earned a B.Sc.E from Queen’s University, Ontario. Her interest in applying these disciplines to human health led her to Dalhousie University, where she completed an M.Sc. and PhD in the School of Biomedical Engineering. She worked as a research engineer for the Institute of Biomechanics and Surgical Design at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and has pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in medical imaging at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Astephen Wilson returned to Dalhousie in 2008 to accept a faculty position in the School of Biomedical Engineering. She is shedding light on the complex biomechanical factors that initiate and maintain the gradual destruction of cartilage in the knee, leading to increasingly painful osteoarthritis. Dr. Astephen Wilson is involved in nationally and locally-funded team projects with physiotherapy professor Dr. Cheryl Kozey and orthopaedic surgeons, Drs. Michael Dunbar and Bill Stanish.
