Dr. Karen Stallaert obtained her dental degree from McGill University in 2006. She then moved to Vancouver for a general practice residency specializing in pediatric dentistry at BC’s Children’s Hospital (University of British Columbia) until 2007. She stayed in the beautiful city of Vancouver to practice general dentistry and then moved to Toronto in 2008 to pursue her MSc Specialty in pediatric dentistry at the University of Toronto & Hospital for Sick Children, where she graduated from in June 2011.

Dr. Stallaert also worked in the dental department at the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and short-term stays in remote Native communities of British Columbia and Ontario. She’s also experienced in treating dental emergencies having worked after-hours call at both BC Children’s Hospital as well as the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Dr. Stallaert has worked in west Toronto since 2011 and lives in the Junction with her husband and four children. In 2019, Dr. Stallaert started part-time teaching in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at her alma mater, University of Toronto.