Founder & Medical Director
Dr Katherine Kilpatrick, BA, BNSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Diploma (Care of the Elderly)
Dr Katherine Kilpatrick is a Family Physician with additional training and over 25 years of experience in healthy aging and Lifestyle Medicine. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University, and is a local expert in healthy aging and preventative health.
Dr Kilpatrick opened Health for Life in 2006 with a goal to assist patients to achieve their Optimal health via team-based comprehensive health and wellness care. She believes in a proactive, preventative and lifestyle approach to optimizing health status and preventing future diseases and conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, strokes, osteoporosis, cancer, falls and disability. “Information is Power” is her motto.
Her approach to client Wellness is collaborative, multi-disciplinary and client-centered, with an emphasis on quality of life and optimization of lifestyle choices.
In her spare time, Dr Kilpatrick enjoys staying fit by running, rucking, swimming, nature walks and working-out, cooking plant-based dinners with friends and family, and unwinding at the cottage with her partner Rick (who is known to assist at HFL from time to time in various capacities) and Tigger the cat. She is an environmentalist, music-lover and avid reader.
