Catherine Ivory is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa since 2018. She runs the Lupus clinic and the Lupus fellowship at the Ottawa hospital. Dr. Ivory is certified in internal medicine and rheumatology and has a PhD in basic science from McGill university. She is leading the immunology academic program with the Rheumatology residents and the lupus teaching series. She is a senior clinician investigator with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and is conducting clinical trials and translational research in rheumatology, mainly in lupus. She is a member of the University of Ottawa Center for Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, with which she collaborates in research projects. Her research is ongoing, both in immunology and inflammation as it related to pathogenesis of rheumatic disease, mainly lupus.