department of community health sciences and the institute

Department of Community Health Sciences

and Institute for Public Health

Annual Report July 2011 to June 2013

Department of Community Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine

MISSION STATEMENT

The Department of Community Health Sciences is committed to enhancing the well-

being of individuals and communities through education, research and service. We

value the diversity of our Department, which is evident in the multidisciplinary nature

of our faculty and student body. Our commitment to our community is reflected in

responsive educational programs; collaborative, relevant research; and consulting and

clinical services that make the expertise of the Department available to a wide

constituency.

Institute for Public Health

MISSION STATEMENT

To catalyze excellence in population health and health services research,

to the benefit of local, national, and global communities

Department of Community Health Sciences and Institute for Public Health

3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6 Fax: (403) 270-7307

www.ucalgary.ca/communityhealthsciences www.iph.ucalgary.ca

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 1 FACULTY MEMBERS

Full-Time Faculty ............................................................................................................................ 7 Part-Time Faculty .......................................................................................................................... 16 Emeritus Faculty ............................................................................................................................ 25

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AND RESEARCH STAFF ............................................................... 26 EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate Medical Education ................................................................................................ 27 Undergraduate BHSc Education .................................................................................................... 28 Graduate Education ........................................................................................................................ 29 Graduate Students .......................................................................................................................... 35 Graduate Courses offered in July 2011 to June 2013 .................................................................... 39 Postgraduate Medical Education .................................................................................................... 43 Continuing Education .................................................................................................................... 44 CHS Seminars offered in July 2011 to June 2013 ......................................................................... 45

CENTRES, UNITS AND PROGRAMS

Institute for Public Health (IPH) .................................................................................................... 49 Population Health and Inequities Research Centre (PHIRC) ........................................................ 50 Health Economics Program (HEP) ................................................................................................ 50 Health Technology Assessment and Appraisal Unit (HTA) .......................................................... 50 Western Canada Waiting List Investigators (WCWL) .................................................................. 52

RESEARCH CHAIRS/PROFESSORSHIPS

Canada Research Chair in Complementary Medicine (M.Verhoef) .............................................. 53 Canada Institutes of Health Research Chair in Gender and Health (L.McIntyre) ......................... 53 Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research (W.Ghali) ................................................... 54 The John A. Buchanan Chair in General Internal Medicine (W.Ghali) ......................................... 54 AMF / Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine (F.Stahnisch) ....................................... 55

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Faculty Research Interests ............................................................................................................. 56

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INTRODUCTION

The Department of Community Health Sciences and the Institute for Public Health are pleased to present this Annual Report for the period of July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2013. The Department of Community Health Sciences remains a vibrant part of the Faculty of Medicine. The Department is the hub for training the next generation of clinical/health services, and public and population health researchers. Educational activities in the Department span the breadth of educational programs in our Faculty, and across the broader University. Members of the Department are active as educators and leaders in the O’Brien’s Bachelor of Health Sciences Program (Health and Society stream). The BHSc program is a flagship of our Faculty. Over the past year, members of the Department of been contributing to, and continuing to grow and expand the Health and Society stream, apart from other teaching contributions to this program. Department members also contribute to teaching in the Undergraduate Medical Education program. The Department has a vibrant Graduate Education training program. The Graduate Education training program is research intensive. Specialization streams are offered in the core disciplines including public and population health, biostatistics, health services research (with the approval this year of an additional stream in health economics), and epidemiology (including clinical epidemiology and hospital epidemiology). Graduates from our program are successful in obtaining salary support from granting agencies, and are recipients of other prestigious awards. The Department also offers a training program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies. The CRDS program is a relatively unique program in Canada. Finally, the Department has a strong residency training program in Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Apart from offering outstanding educational opportunities, members of the department are accomplished researchers with national and international profiles. Research initiatives are led collaboratively with the Institute for Public Health. Many faculty members hold independent salary awards such as CIHR Chairs, CRC Chairs, and funding support from Tri-Council Agencies, and other granting agencies.

2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2013 Full-Time Faculty: – primary appointment in Department 40 41 38

– primary appointment in other departments 60 59 62

Part-Time Faculty (2011-2013 Adjunct=60;Clinical=36;Research=6) 98 90 102

Administrative Staff 12 12 13 Faculty with Competitive Salary Awards (AHFMR/CIHR/Other): – primary appointment in Department

10 10 7

– primary appointment in other departments 22 23 20

– adjunct appointments 1 1 1 Graduate Courses 40 40 71 Graduate Students 132 131 217 Students receiving Scholarships and External

Funding 45 71 90

Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residents (previously Community Medicine) 9 9 13

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In 2011-2013, the Department was very pleased to appoint six new full-time faculty members with primary appointment in Community Health Sciences: ♦ Dr. Fabiola Aparacio-Ting, Instructor, Department of Community Health Sciences, effective February 2012 ♦ Dr. Gavin McCormack, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, effective

February 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Juliet Guichon, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, effective March 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Stacey Page, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, effective July 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, effective

September 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Tolulope Sajobi, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Science, effective January 1, 2013

In 2011-2013 the following six faculty members terminated their full-time appointments but now hold adjunct appointments with the Department: ♦ Dr. Christopher Eagle resigned from his full-time position on December 31, 2011 ♦ Dr. Misha Eliasziw resigned from her full-time position on September 30, 2011 ♦ Dr. John Esdaile resigned from his full-time position on March 31, 2012 ♦ Dr. Glenys Godlovitch resigned from her full-time position on September 15, 2012 ♦ Dr. Richard Scott resigned from his full-time position on June 30, 2013 ♦ Dr. Susan Cran retired from her full-time position on June 30, 2013 In 2011-2013, the Department was also pleased to offer joint full-time appointments to eight faculty members whose primary appointments were in other departments: ♦ Dr. Cindy Adams, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences,

effective December 1, 2011 ♦ Dr. Cheryl Barnbae, Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,

effective May 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Thomas Feasby, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, effective July 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Matthew James, Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, effective January 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Abhay Lodha, Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, effective February 1, 2013 ♦ Dr. Kerry McBrien, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, effective January 1, 2013 ♦ Dr. Sachin Pendharkar, Assistant Professor, Adult Respirology & Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine,

effective January 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Tamara Pringsheim, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences,

effective November 1, 2012 In 2011-2013, sixteen individuals received part-time (adjunct/clinical) appointments in the Department: ♦ Dr. J. Cyne Johnston, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective December 1, 2011 ♦ Dr.Melissa Potestio, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective January 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Andrea Gruneir, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective January 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Jesse Hendrikse, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective January 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Ian Blanchard, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective January 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Jodie Burton, Clinical Assistant Professor, effective May 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Robert Lampard, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective May 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Nelly Oelke, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective May 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Lawrence de Koning, Clinical Assistant Professor, effective August 20, 2012 ♦ Dr. Rosario Telavera, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective September 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Shahirose Premji, Adjunct Associate Professor, effective October 1, 2012 ♦ Dr. Luz Palacios-Derflingher, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective April 1, 2013 ♦ Ms. Carrie Sherlock, Adjunct Lecturer, effective April 1, 2013

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♦ Dr. Kevin Laupland, adjunct Professor, effective May 1, 2013 ♦ Dr. Alka Patel, Adjunct Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2013 ♦ Dr. Judy Seidel, Adjunct Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2013

Faculty promotions were granted to the following faculty members whose primary or joint appointments were in the Department of Community Health Sciences: ♦ Dr. Jennifer M. Hatfield was promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

(effective April 1, 2012) ♦ Dr. Gilaad G. Kaplan was promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

(effective April 1, 2012) ♦ Dr. Eric E. Smith was promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

(effective April 1, 2012) ♦ Dr. Gregor Wolbring was promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

(effective April 1, 2012) ♦ Dr. Hude Quan was promoted from the rank of Associate Professor to Professor

(effective April 1, 2012) ♦ Dr. H. Thomas Stelfox was promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

(effective April 1, 2013) ♦ Dr. John D. McLennan was promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor

(effective April 1, 2013) ♦ Dr. Tanya Beran was promoted from the rank of Associate Professor to Professor

(effective April 1, 2013) ♦ Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn was promoted from the rank of Associate Professor to Professor

(effective April 1, 2013) ♦ Dr. Braden J. Manns was promoted from the rank of Associate Professor to Professor

(effective April 1, 2013) In 2011-2013, individuals who were successful in new competitive salary award competitions included the following:

• Full-time faculty with joint appointment in Community Health Sciences: Derek V. Exner - Tier II Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Matthew T. James - CIHR New Investigator and Kidney Foundation of Canada Krescent

Award Continuing award holders of AHFMR, CIHR and other competitions are:

• Full-time faculty with primary appointment in Community Health Sciences: Deborah Marshall - Tier II Canada Research Chair in Health Services and Systems Research Lindsay McLaren - AI-HS Population Health Investigator Lynn McIntyre - CIHR Chair in Gender and Health Scott Patten AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Hude Quan - AI-HS Health Scholar Melanie Rock - AI-HS Population Health Investigator and CIHR New Investigator Marja Verhoef - Tier II Canada Research Chair in Complementary Medicine

• Full-time faculty with joint appointment in Community Health Sciences: Norman Campbell - CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control Carolyn Emery - CIHR New Investigator Derek Exner - AI-HS Scholar William Ghali - AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Brent Hagel - AI-HS Population Health Investigator and CIHR New Investigator Brenda Hemmelgarn - AI-HS Population Health Investigator

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Michael Hill - AI-HS Health Scholar Robert Hilsden - AI-HS Health Scholar

Nathalie Jette - AI-HS Population Health Investigator and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience Population Health

Gilaad Kaplan - AI-HS Population Health Investigator and CIHR New Investigator Braden Manns - AI-HS Health Scholar Robert Myers - AI-HS Clinical Investigator and CIHR New Investigator Doreen Rabi - AI-HS Population Health Investigator Ronald Sigal - AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Eric Smith - CIHR New Investigator Thomas Stelfox - AI-HS Population Health Investigator and CIHR New Investigator Suzanne Tough - AI-HS Health Scholar David Zygun - AI-HS Clinical Investigator and CIHR New Investigator

• Faculty with adjunct appointment in Community Health Sciences: Christine Friedenreich - AI-HS Health Senior Scholar

Thirty-two students completed MSc degrees. These students, and their supervisors, were:

♦ Sajid Ali (Supervisor: Dr. Richard E. Scott) ♦ Mohammed Almekhlafi (Supervisor: Dr. Michael D. Hill) ♦ Belal Alshaikh (Supervisor: Dr. Reg Sauve) ♦ Ghazwan Altabbaa (Supervisor: Dr. William Ghali) ♦ Cheryl Barnabe (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Barr/Dr. Marja Verhoef) ♦ Sonia Butalia (Supervisor: Dr. Doreen Rabi) ♦ Elisabeth Cardoso-Pereira (Supervisor: Dr. Ardene Robinson Vollman) ♦ Vinay Deved (Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn) ♦ Allen Dong (Supervisor: Dr. Glenys Godlovitch/Dr. Tom Noseworthy) ♦ Ken Fyie (Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Marshall) ♦ Juan Garcia-Rodriguez (Supervisor: Dr. Tyrone Donnon) ♦ Carola Guardia Tello (Supervisor: Dr. Wilfreda Thurston) ♦ Steven Heitman (Supervisor: Dr. Braden Manns/Dr. Robert Hilsden) ♦ Carmen Hurd (Supervisor: Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer) ♦ Amy Johnston (Supervisor: Dr. Gregor Wolbring/Dr. Richard Scott) ♦ Joseph Kaunda (Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) ♦ Stacy Kozak (Supervisor: Dr. Chad Saunders) ♦ Julie Kryzanowski (Supervisor: Dr. Lynn McIntyre) ♦ Daniel Lane (Supervisor: Dr. Tom Stelfox) ♦ Kathryn Linton (Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) ♦ Jane Madison McChesney (Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Jette) ♦ Tharsiya Nagulesapillai (Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Tough) ♦ Craig Pearce (Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) ♦ Leah Jeanne Ricketson (Supervisor: Dr. James Kellner) ♦ Magali Robert (Supervisor: Dr. Sue Ross) ♦ Mahnoush Rostami (Supervisor: Dr. Lynn McIntyre) ♦ Nicole Ruest (Supervisor: Dr. Brent Hagel) ♦ Ing Shian Soon (Supervisor: Dr. Gilaad Kaplan) ♦ Ann Toohey (Supervisor: Dr. Melanie Rock/Dr. Gavin McCormack) ♦ Rob Weaver (Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn/Dr. Matthew James) ♦ Carol Weller (now Hubbard) (Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Tough) ♦ Anna Zadunayski (Supervisor: Dr. Glenys Godlovitch)

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Nine students completed the course-based MDCS (Master of Disability and Community Studies) ♦ Nadia Asghar (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Kueth Diew (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Shelley Genest (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Linda Langevin (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Jennifer Catherine Laughy (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Jennifer Lugg (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Bob James Rogers (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Marianna Sasvari (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) ♦ Zsuzsanna Tamas (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran)

Fourteen students completed the PhD program. These students, and their supervisors, were: ♦ Salma Khaled (Supervisor: Dr. Scott Patten) ♦ Helen Lee (Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Currie) ♦ Brenda Leung (Supervisor: Dr. Bonnie Kaplan) ♦ Jordana Linder (Supervisor: Dr. Lindsay McLaren) ♦ Aliyah Mawji (Supervisor: Dr. Ardene Robinson Vollman/Dr. Jennifer Hatfield) ♦ Amy Metcalfe (Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Tough) ♦ Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi (Supervisor: Dr. Hude Quan/Dr. Kathryn King) ♦ Alka Patel (Supervisor: Dr. William Ghali) ♦ Antony Porcino (Supervisor: Dr. Marja Verhoef) ♦ Rithesh Ram (Supervisor: Dr. Preston Wiley/Dr. Willem Meeuwisse) ♦ Heather Ray (Supervisor: Dr. Marja Verhoef) ♦ Paul Ronksley (Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn) ♦ Adrian Specogna (Supervisor: Dr. Michael D. Hill/Dr. Scott Patten) ♦ Greg Yelland (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Scott/Dr. Marja Verhoef)

Nineteen students completed their Candidacy Examinations. These students, and their supervisors, were: ♦ Anna Kania (Dr. Marja Verhoef) ♦ Duyen Nguyen (Dr. Lynn McIntyre/Dr. Lindsay McLaren) ♦ Susan van Rheenen (Dr. Michael D. Hill) ♦ Lisa Allen (Dr. Jennifer Hatfield) ♦ Kimberley Simmonds (Dr. Kevin Laupland/Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) ♦ Dean Yergens (Dr. William Ghali) ♦ Andrea Soo (Dr. Misha Eliasziw/Dr. Gordon Fick) ♦ Deanne Taylor (Dr. Gregor Wolbring) ♦ Kirsten Fiest (Dr. Scott Patten/Dr. Nathalie Jette) ♦ Robin Walker (Dr. Hude Quan) ♦ Dawn Rault (Dr. Melanie Rock) ♦ Fariba Aghajafari (Dr. Sue Ross/Dr. Maeve O'Beirne) ♦ Alexandra Frolkis (Dr. Gilaad Kaplan) ♦ Susan Huculak (Dr. Marja Verhoef) ♦ Derek Roberts (Dr. David Zygun/Dr. Tom Stelfox) ♦ Alyshah Kaba (Dr. Tanya Beran) ♦ Irene Wai Yan Ma (Dr. Kevin McLaughlin) ♦ Mona Nasir (Dr. Claudio Violato) ♦ Dennis Valdez (Dr. Tyrone Donnon)

I would like to thank Dr. Marja Verhoef for her leadership as Deputy Head of the Department in this past year, and particularly thank Merle Dalip and Sylvia Bolt for their unbending support for the Department. Thanks, as well, to Lindsay Bradshaw for her administrative support and for her assistance in compiling this report.

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It is a tremendous pleasure to serve as Department Head representing our outstanding faculty members, graduate students and residents, support staff and programs. Respectfully submitted Christopher Doig, MD, MSc, FRCPC Professor and Head, Department of Community Health Sciences

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FACULTY MEMBERS The Department of Community Health Sciences remains the most multidisciplinary group of faculty members in the Faculty of Medicine. Academic backgrounds vary, from the ‘basic’ sciences of community medicine (biostatistics, epidemiology, economics, and social and behavioural sciences), to clinical and applied aspects of community medicine (occupational health, geriatric health services, health policy and management, international health, maternal and child health, aboriginal health, health promotion, nutrition, public health and hospital epidemiology). Many faculty members have joint appointments with other departments within the Faculty of Medicine (Clinical Neurosciences, Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, Paediatrics and Psychiatry), or in other faculties of the University (Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, Kinesiology, and Social Sciences). For the period July 2011 to June 2013, the Department of Community Health Sciences had 100 full-time faculty members (38 primary and 62 joint appointments). The faculty members with joint appointments had major responsibilities in either another department within the Faculty of Medicine or in another faculty. For the period July 2011 to June 2013, there were 102 part-time faculty members (60 Adjunct, 36 Clinical and 6 Research) associated with the Department and 4 who held Emeritus appointments. Responsibilities of the part-time faculty included teaching in the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate Medical Education Programs of the Department. FULL-TIME FACULTY

Primary Appointment Dr. Fabiola Aparicio-Ting, MSc, MPH, PhD Instructor, Department of Community Health Sciences Tanya N. Beran, BA, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Medical Education Research Unit Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Community Health Sciences Andrew G.M. Bulloch, BA, PhD Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences, Psychiatry and Physiology and Pharmacology Ann L. Casebeer, BA, MPA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, MBBS, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Fiona M. Clement, BSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences (start date: January 2011) Susan P. Cran, BSW, MEd, EdD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Community Rehabilitation and Disability

Studies Graduate Student Advisor, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies

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Christopher J. Doig, MD, MSc, FRCPC Professor and Head, Department of Community Health Sciences Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine Tyrone Donnon, BSc, BEd, MEd, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Medical Education and Research Unit Gordon H. Fick, BSc, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Juliet R. Guichon, BA, MA, SJD Senior Associate, Office of Medical Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Jennifer Hatfield, BA, M.App.Sci, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Associate Dean, Global Health and International Partnerships, Faculty of Medicine Director, Health and Society Major, O’Brien Centre for Bachelor of Health Sciences Advisor, Institute for Gender Research Marilynne A. Hebert, BSc, MEd, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Community Health Sciences Elizabeth Ann Henderson, BSc, RT, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Director, IPC Surveillance, Infection Prevention and Control, Alberta Health Services E. Anne Hughson, BA, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Community Rehabilitation and Disability

Studies Program Director, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Aliya Kassam, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Medical Education and Research Unit and Post Graduate Medical Education (start date: April 2011) Bonnie Lashewicz, BEd, MEd, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Community Rehabilitation and Disability

Studies Jocelyn M. Lockyer, BA, MHA, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine Nancy J. Marlett, BA, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Community Rehabilitation and Disability

Studies

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Deborah A. Marshall, BSc, MHSA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Director, Health Technology Assessment, Alberta Bone Joint Health Institute Tier II Canada Research Chair in Health Services and Systems Research The Arthur J.E. Child Chair in Rheumatology Research (2012-2017) Gavin McCormack, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Lynn McIntyre, MD, MHSc, FRCPC Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences CIHR Chair in Gender and Health Lindsay McLaren, BA, MA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator Thomas W. Noseworthy, BMedSc, MD, MSc, MPH, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, CHE Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Stacey Page, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Chair, Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board, Office of Medical Bioethics Beth L. Parrott, BA, MSc Instructor and Student Advisor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Community Rehabilitation and

Disability Studies Scott B. Patten, BMedSc, MD, FRCPC, PhD Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Hude Quan, DipMCH, MPH, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scholar Melanie J. Rock, BA, MSW, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator Margaret L. Russell, BSc, MD, FRCPC, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Tolulope Sajobi, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Reg S. Sauve, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Paediatrics Director, Perinatal Follow-Up Program, Alberta Children's Hospital Frank Stahnisch, MSc, MD Associate Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and History (Faculty of Arts) AMF/Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine and Health Care, Faculty of Medicine Coordinator, History and Philosophy of Science Program, Faculty of Arts Lloyd R. Sutherland, BA, MDCM, MSC, FRCPC, FACP Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Medicine Director, Health Technology Assessment Unit Wilfreda E. Thurston, BA, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Professor, Department of Ecosystems and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Advisor, Institute for Gender Research, University of Calgary Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Faculty of Kinesiology Adjunct Professor, Centre for Health Promotion Studies, University of Alberta Marja J. Verhoef, BA, MA, MSc, PhD Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Medicine Tier II Canada Research Chair in Complementary Medicine Adjunct Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway Affiliated Scientist at the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation,

Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo Associate Scientist, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research and Evaluation Program,

Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta Claudio Violato, BSc, MA, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Director, Medical Education and Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine Coordinator, Graduate Program in Medical Education, Department of Medical Sciences Adjunct Professor, Division of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Education Gregor Wolbring, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Community Rehabilitation and Disability

Studies Joint Appointment Cindy Adams, BSW, MSW, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences Herman Barkema, DVM, PhD Head, Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Professor in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Production Animal Health,

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Cheryl Barnabe, BSC, BScM, MD, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Susan G. Barr, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Director, Rheumatology Residency Training Program Cynthia Beck, BSc(Eng), MASc, MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences Bonnie Buntain, BSc, MSc, DVM, DABVP, DACVPM Assistant Dean, Government and International Relations, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Professor, Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and

Department of Community Health Sciences Norman Campbell, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology, and

Community Health Sciences HSFC-CIHR Canada Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control Robert L. Cowie, MB ChB, MD, MSc, FCPSA, MFOM Professor, Division of Respirology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Gillian R. Currie, BComm, MA, MPhil, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Warren Davidson, BSc, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, FCCP Assistant Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Community Health

Sciences Deborah Dewey, BA, MA, MSc, PhD Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology Director, Behavioural Research Unit, Alberta Children’s Hospital James A. Dickinson, MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FAFPHM Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences Elijah Dixon, MD, BSc, MSc, FRCSC, FACS Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery, Oncology and Community Health Sciences CIHR New Investigator Joseph C. Dort, BSc, MSc, MD, CCFP, FRCSC, FACS Professor, Departments of Surgery, Clinical Neurosciences, Oncology and Community Health Sciences Ohlson Family Professor of Head and Neck Surgery Director, Ohlson Research Initiative Steven M. Edworthy, BSc, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences

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Carolyn A. Emery, BSc, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences Professorship in Paediatric Rehabilitation AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator J.C. Herbert Emery, BA, MA, PhD Professor, Departments of Economics and Community Health Sciences Svare Professor in Health Economics (to August 2012) Derek V. Exner, BSc, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Cardiac Sciences, Medicine and Community Health Sciences Director, CON-ECT Clinical Coordinating Centre, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta Medical Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Program, Alberta Health Services Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials AI-HS Scholar Thomas E. Feasby, BSc(Med), MD, DSc, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences William J. Ghali, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Health Services Research John A. Buchanan Chair in General Internal Medicine Scientific Director, Institute for Public Health Brent Hagel, BPE, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Professorship in Child Health and Wellness, Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator David A. Hanley, BA, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Community

Health Sciences David Hanley, BA, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Department of Community Health Sciences Kenton G.Hecker, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Medical Education Research Unit Brenda Hemmelgarn, DipNurs, BScN, MN, PhD, MD, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator The Roy and Vi Baay Chair in Kidney Research

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Michael D. Hill, BSc, MD, MSc, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Medicine, Radiology and Community Health Sciences Associate Dean, Clinical Research, University Of Calgary AI-HS Health Scholar The Heart and Stroke Foundation/Hotchkiss Brain Institute Professor in Stroke Research Robert J. Hilsden, MSc, PhD, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Director of Research, Forzani and MacPhail Colon Cancer Screening Centre,

Alberta Health Services AI-HS Health Scholar David B. Hogan, MD, FACP, FRCPC Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Departments of Medicine, Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health

Sciences Brenda Strafford Chair in Geriatric Medicine Gwendolyn Hollaar, BS, MD, FRCSC, MPH Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc, BSc, MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Divisions of Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Training Program Russell Hull, MBBS, MSc, FRACP, FACP, FCCP, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Medicine, Hematology, Internal Medicine and Community Health Sciences Director, Thrombosis Research Unit Matthew James, BSc, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology and Department of Community Health Sciences Nathalie Jetté, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences Tier II Canada Research Chair in Neurological Population Health and Health Services Research AI-HS Population Health Investigator Bonnie J. Kaplan, BA, MA, PhD, CPsych Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Research Psychologist, Behavioural Research Unit, Alberta Children's Hospital Gilaad Kaplan, BSc, MD, MPH, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine

and Community Health Sciences CIHR New Investigator AI-HS Population Health Investigator James D. Kellner, BSc, MSc, MD Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics Professor, Departments of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Community Health Sciences

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Kathryn M. King, BScN, RN, MN, PhD Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scholar Marcus Koch, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences Abhay Lodha, MBBS, MSc Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Braden J. Manns, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Fellow, Institute of Health Economics AI-HS Health Scholar Kerry McBrien, BASc, MPH, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences John D. McLennan, BMedSc, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences Robert P. Myers, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine

and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Clinical Investigator CIHR New Investigator Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Maeve O’Beirne, BSc, MSc, MD, PhD, CCFP, IBCLC Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences Clinician/Preceptor, UCMC Sheldon Chumir, University of Calgary Teaching Clinics Clinician/Preceptor, Low Risk Maternity Clinic, Alberta Health Services Elizabeth Oddone-Paolucci, BA, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences Associate Director of Research, Office of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery Sachin Pendharkar, BASc, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCCP Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Tamara Pringsheim, BSc, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences Robert R.Quinn, BSc, PhD, MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Doreen M. Rabi, BSc, MSc, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cardiac Sciences and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator

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Pietro Ravani, MSc, MD, FNCPI Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Susan Samuel, BSc (Life Sci), MSc, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Chad Saunders, BSc, MBA, PhD Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Haskayne School of Business and Departments of Medicine

and Community Health Sciences e-Health Strategy and Innovation Research Lead, Ward of the 21st Century (W21C) Research and Innovation Lead, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre (HiiTeC) Cynthia H-T. Seow, MBBS, MSc, FRACP Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Ronald J. Sigal, BSc, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Departments of Medicine, Cardiac Sciences and

Community Health Sciences Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Eric E. Smith, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Radiology and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Clinical Investigator CIHR New Investigator Antonio S. Stang, Bsc, MD/MBA, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health

Sciences H. Thomas Stelfox, BMSc, PhD, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator Craig Stephen, DVM, PhD Professor, Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

and Department of Community Health Sciences Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia Suzanne C. Tough, BSc, MSc, PhD Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scholar Jian Li Wang, BMed, MMed, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences Samuel Wiebe, MD, FRCPC, MSc Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Head, Division of Neurology, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Director of Clinical Research, Hotchkiss Brain Institute

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Stephen Wood, MD, FRCS(C), MSc Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Community Health Sciences PART-TIME FACULTY Research Faculty Guanmin Chen, MD, PhD, MPH Research Associate, Hypertension Outcomes and Surveillance Team Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Barbara Conner-Spady, BSc, MN, PhD Research Associate, Western Canada Waiting List Project Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Carolyn De Coster, RN, MBA, PhD Director, Clinical Service Optimization, Data Integration, Measurement & Reporting,

Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Associate Director, Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba Cameron R. Donaldson, BA, MSc, PhD Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population and Health Sciences Research Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Robert C. Lee, BSc, BScEd, MSc Consultant, Neptune and Co. Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Claudia San Martin, BArtsSc, MSc, PhD Senior Analyst, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Research Associate, Western Canada Waiting List Project Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Adjunct Faculty Carol E. Adair, BA, MSc, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences Lubna A. Baig, MBBS, MPH, PhD Managing Director, Alberta International Medical Graduate Program Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Ian Blanchard, MSc, HBOR Senior Performance Strategist, Alberta Health Services Emergency Services Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Jeffrey Caird, BSc, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences David R.L. Cawthorpe, BSc, MSc, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences Gary Cole, BSc, MA, PhD Senior Research Associate and Manager, Educational Research and Development Unit,

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Linda S. Cook, BSc, MSc, PhD Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Research Scientific Associate, Population Health and Information,

Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Ilona Csizmadi, BA, MSc, PhD Research Scientist/Epidemiologist, Population Health Research,

Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Adjunct Assistant Professor, Departments of Oncology and Community Health Sciences Sandra Delon, BA, MPsych, PhD Director, Chronic Disease Management, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Tam Truong Donnelly, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Chris J. Eagle, MD, MBA, FRCPC, FANZCA President and Chief Operating Officer, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Adjunct Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Anaesthesia Misha Eliasziw, BSc, MSc, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences John M. Esdaile, BSc, MD, MPH Arthritis Research Centre of Canada Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Peter Faris, BSc, MSc, PhD Director of Evaluation, Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Tanis R. Fenton, BSc, MHSc, PhD Clinical Nutrition Research Coordinator, Foothills Medical Centre, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Christine Friedenreich, BSc, MSc, PhD Acting Division Head, Division of Preventive Oncology, Department of Oncology Adjunct Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences, Oncology and Faculty of Kinesiology Leader, Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care Senior Research Scientist, Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Kenneth Froese, BSc, MSc, PhD Senior Risk Assessment Specialist, SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Helen P. Gardiner, BA, MSc, PhD Director, H. Gardiner & Associates Inc. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Loreen Gilmour, BComm, MBA, PhD Director, Poverty Initiative and Research, United Way of Calgary and Area Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Andrea Gruneir, BSc, MSc, PhD Scientist, Women’s College Reasearch Institute Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Cornelius Guenter, BA, MA, PhD International Health Program, Faculty of Medicine Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Wayne Hammond, BA, MSc, PhD CEO and President, Resiliency Initiatives Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Alexandra Harrison, BSc, MSc, PhD Consultant, Health Care: Organizations, Leadership, Education Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Penelope Hawe, BScPsych, MPH, PhD Visiting International Scholar Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Jesse Hendrikse, BA, MA, PhD Research Associate, BHSc Program, Faculty of Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Marianna L. Hofmeister, BA, MA, PhD Manager, Physician Learning Program, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Richard B. Hovey, BEd, MA, PhD Consultant, RBH Research Consulting Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Robert L. Innes, BA, DHA, ACHAF President, RLI Consulting Inc. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences J. Cyne Johnston, BSc, MSc, PhD Scientist, Public Health Innovation and Decision Support, Alberta Health Services Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Paul Egon Jonsson, MBA, PhD Executive Director and CEO, Institute of Health Economics Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Don Juzwishin, BA, MHSA, PhD Director, Health Technology Assessment and Innovation, Alberta Health Services (Edmonton Area) Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Judge Heather A. Lamoureux, BA, LLB, LLM Provincial Court Judge, The Provincial Court of Alberta Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Robert Lampard, BSc, MSc, MBA, MD Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Diane Lorenzetti, BA, MLS Research Librarian, Institute of Health Economics and Institute for Public Health Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Mingshan Lu, BEng, MA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Economics Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Research Fellow, Institute of Health Economics Christine M. MacFarlane, BA, MSc, PhD, R. Psych Consultant, Possberg and Associates Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Gail MacKean, MPA, PhD Health Research Consultant, Griffith Ridge Group Inc. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Bretta Maloff, BHEc, DNut Executive Director, Health Promotion, Disease and Injury Prevention, Population and Public Health, Alberta

Health Services Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Community Health Sciences

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S. Elizabeth McGregor, BSc, MSc, PhD Research Scientist, Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services Cancer Care Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Oncology Lynn M. Meadows, BA, MA, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Willem Meeuwisse, BA, MD, PhD Professor, Sports Medicine Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Nelly Oelke, BScN, MN, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, UBC Okanagan Campus Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Luz Palacios-Derflingher, BSc, MSc, PhD Senior Statistical Associate/Biostatistician, Faculty of Nursing Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Melissa L. Potestio, BSc, MSc, PhD Scientsit, Public Health Innovation and Decision Support, Alberta Health Services Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Shahirose Premji, BSc, BScN, MScN, PhD Associate Professor, Facutly of Nursing Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Catherine Pryce, BScN, MN Vice President, Addiction and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Sheila A. Robinson, BSc, MA, PhD Consultant, River Run Associates Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Catherine Scott, BSc, MSc, PhD Executive Director, Knowledge Management, Alberta Health Services Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Elaine Seifert, BA, LLB, LLM Barrister and Solicitor Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Lorraine Shack, BSc, MSc, PhD Research Leader, Research Evaluation Unit, Health Promotion, Disease and Injury Prevention, Population and

Public Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Gene Marie Shematek, BA, MT, MScA President, GMS & Associates Ltd. Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Community Health Sciences Carrie Sherlock, BA (Hons), MLIS Information Specialist/Librarian, Physician Learning Program Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Community Health Sciences Alan Shiell, BSc, MSc, PhD Executive Director, Centre for Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science,

Department of Health, Australia Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scientist CIHR/PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health Sharon E. Straus, HBSc, MD, FRCPC, MSc St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine and Division of Geriatric Medicine,

Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Lawrence (Larry) W. Svenson, BSc Manager, Epidemiologic Surveillance, Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health, Population Health

Division, Alberta Health and Wellness Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Rosario Talavera, MSc, MD Consultant in Health Informatics Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Ardene R. Vollman, BScN, MA, PhD Health and Evaluation Consultant, Robinson Vollman Inc. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, and Faculty of

Kinesiology Warren Wilson, BA, MA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Gabrielle L. Zimmerman, BSc, PhD Alberta Liaison Officer, Canadian Agency of Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences David Zygun, BSc, MD, MSc Zone Clinical Department Head, Critical Care Medicine, Edmonton Zone Professor and Director, Department of Critical Care Medicine, U of A Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Clinical Faculty Kirk Barber, BMSc, MD, FRCPC Dermatologist Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Community Health Sciences Heather Bryant, BSc, MD, CCFP, PhD, FRCPC Vice President, Cancer Control, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Clinical Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Oncology Jodie Burton, BSc, MD, MSc Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences Lorne Clearsky, MD, FRCPC Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Kenneth J. Corbet, MD, CCFPC, FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta André E. Corriveau, BSc, MDCM, MBA, FRCPC Chief Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health and Wellness Clinical Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences John W.F. Cowell, BSc, MSc, MD, CCFP, CCBOM, FRCPC Dr. John Cowell Consulting Ltd. Clinical Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Dr. John W. Cutbill, BEng, MSc, MD, Dip SportMed, FCBOM, FCFP, FAADEP Chief Medical Officer, Canadian Pacific Railway Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Rita Dahlke, BSc, MC Health Director, CUPS Health and Education Centres Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Lawrence de Koning, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Calgary Laboratory Services Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Albert S. deVilliers, MBChB, MMed Lead, Medical Officer of Health, Peace County Health, Public Health Centre, Alberta Health Services, North

Zone Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Erick Dillmann, MD Community Health Development Specialist, University of Calgary International Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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J. Catherine Dube, MSc, MD, FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health

Sciences Dina Fisher, BSc, MSc, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Brent Friesen, MD, FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Adel Gabriel, MBCHB, FRCPC, MSc Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences Ronald G. Gorsche, BSc, MD, CCFP, MMSc Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences Andrew J. Graham, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCSC Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Departments of Surgery and Community Health

Sciences Mark R. Hardy, MB MS, MSc, FRCSC Surgical Oncologist, Division of Surgical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery, Oncology and Community Health Sciences Murray C. Lee, BSc, MD, MPH Senior Partner, Habitat Health Impact Consulting Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Judy MacDonald, BSc, MD, MCM, FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Elizabeth MacKay, BSc, MD, FRCPC, MPH Director of Medical Teaching, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Laura J. McLeod, BSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Coordinator, Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Community Health Sciences Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Linda A. Mrkonjic, BSc, MD, FRCSC, MSc Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences Richard J. Musto, MD, CCFP, FRCPC Lead, Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Stuart A. Ross, MB, ChB, FRACP, MRACP Clinical Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences

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Salim Samanani, BSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC Chief Executive Officer, OKAKI Health Intelligence Inc. Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Christopher Sarin, BSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC Community Medical Consultant, Health Canada, Alberta Region First Nations and Inuit Health Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences David Strong, BSc, MD, MHSc, FRCPC Director, Health Surveillance and Medical Officer of Health, Healthy Communities, Alberta Health Services,

Calgary Zone Director, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Training Program Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences David Swann, MD, CCFP, FRCPC MLA for Constituency of Mountain-View and Public Health Consultant Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Willis Tsai, MD, MSc, FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, Rockyview General

Hospital Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Douglas A. Urness, BMSc, MD, FRCPC Clinical Director, Provincial Telemental Health Program and Staff Psychiatrist,

The Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Shainoor (Virani) Ismail, MD, MSc, FRCPC Chief of Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Control, Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious

Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Cameron D. Waddell, MD, MHA Medical Lead Accreditation with OH&S, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Wadieh Yacoub, MBBCh, MSC, FRCPC Regional Community Medicine Consultant, Medical Services Branch, Health Canada Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Rudolf A.G. Zimmer, MD, CCFP, FRCPC Community Medicine Specialist Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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EMERITUS FACULTY Penny A. Jennett, BA, MA, PhD, CCHRA(C) Emeritus Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Donald E. Larsen, BA, MA, PhD Emeritus Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Alfred Neufeldt, BA, MA, PhD Emeritus Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Guido van Rosendaal, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Emeritus Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

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ADMINISTRATIVE/RESEARCH STAFF Community Health Sciences Administrative Support Staff: Rae Barolet Administrative Assistant to Drs. W. Ghali, J. Guichon and H. Quan Sylvia Bolt Executive Assistant to Drs. C. Doig and T. Noseworthy Lindsay Bradshaw Administrative Assistant to Drs. P. Hawe and A. Shiell and

Executive Assistant to Population Health Intervention Research Centre Beth Cusitar Administrative Assistant to Drs. S. Godlovitch, F. Stahnisch and History of Medicine

and Health Care Program Merle Dalip Program Coordinator to the Department Sandra Dewar Administrative Assistant to Drs. S. Patten, L. McIntyre, L.McLaren and M.Verhoef Crystal Elliott Graduate Program Administrator (shared) to Dr. T. Beran Sabrina Anderson Graduate Program Administrator (shared) to Dr. T. Beran Jeannie Halmo Administrative Assistant to Drs. F. Clement, G. Fick, R. Sauve and W. Thurston Kim Noseworthy Residency Program Administrator to the Public Health and Preventive Medicine

(formerly Community Medicine) Residency Training Program and Administrative Assistant to Dr. T. Feasby

Shelly McNeil-Picken Administrative Assistant to Drs. T. Beran, M. Hebert and R. Scott, Susan Taylor Administrative Assistant to Drs. T. Donnon, C. Violato and Medical Education and

Research Unit Lydia Vaz Administrative Assistant to Drs. A. Casebeer, G. McCormack, J. McLennan,

and M. Rock Diane Lorenzetti Research Librarian, Institute of Economics, Population Health Intervention

Research Centre (PHIRC) and Department of Community Health Sciences Perinatal Follow-Up Program: Heather Christianson Research Coordinator Selphee Tang Research Assistant Health Technology Assessment Unit: Laura Leggett Research Assistant Simrandeep Tiwana Research Associate Lesley Soril Research Associate Institute for Public Health: Dr. Jamie Day Administrative Director Mariko Roe Communications Assistant

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EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION Program Coordinator: Dr. Murray Lee Most Community Health teaching is concentrated in the Healthy Populations course, now in its sixth iteration. As well, some community health content is covered in other clinical presentations, and in the Medical Skills course. The role of UME Program Coordinator in the Department of Community Health Sciences ended when Dr. McLeod stepped down from the course Healthy Populations (MDCN 340) is a horizontal course running throughout the first year, from August to March. Healthy Populations is based on a set of national population health objectives for the Medical Council of Canada, and has 5 units: health care system, determinants of health, population health assessment, prevention, and specific populations. It is taught in a mixture of lectures, small groups, panel discussions and client presentations, along with a photovoice display on living in poverty. The community correlations experience from the previous year was expanded in Jan- Feb 2012, thanks to excellent support from the Community Rehabilitiation and Disability Studies members from the dept, under the leadership of Dr Nancy Marlett. Students signed up for one of six themes: seniors, children with special needs, adults with disabilities, urban aboriginals, refugees and immigrants, and recovery (homelessness and addictions). Each group had a preceptor, who arranged for them to meet with people living with those issues, their families if they had them, community agencies serving that population, and physicians who worked with those patients. The students then did group projects and presentations about their theme area, including creating resources for the Primary Care Network website. The Medical Skills course, which is another horizontal course in the first two years of the curriculum, has a unit with significant community health content, Global Health. Another of their units, Ethics, touches on some related content such as resource allocation. Dr. McLeod worked with both unit leads to ensure integration of community health content. Another clinical presentation relevant to community health is Family Violence, which was integrated into the Mind course. We connected the Mind course chair with our teacher of Aboriginal Health, Dr Lindsay Crowshoe, to add more teaching on multiple stressors and mental health in the aboriginal population in that course. As well, other courses cover certain disease prevention topics, such as smoking cessation in respiratory teaching, and prevention of cardiovascular disease by treatment of hyperlipidemia and hypertension in cardiovascular and endocrine teaching, so these are not duplicated in Healthy Populations. We are working with the Master Teachers to try to better integrate prevention concepts into the small group exercises in other courses. Community health elective experiences are also offered. First year and clerkship electives in Community Medicine are available in urban or rural public health programs, or with First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada. A Clinical Encounter elective is available in Occupational Medicine in second year, as well as a clerkship elective. Clerkship electives in Community Medicine, and Occupational/ Environmental Medicine are available for visiting students as well as our own students. In 2012 there were 12 electives students in the course.

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UNDERGRADUATE BHSc EDUCATION Health and Society Program Director: Dr. Jennifer Hatfield The Department of Community Health Sciences provides outstanding support for the BHSc Health and Society Program through the participation of faculty in teaching and research supervision. Key courses in Social Determinants, Health Systems, Philosophy of Science, Public Health, Epidemiology, Bio Statistics, Health Research Methods and Global Health are taught by department members. Students are mentored a wide array of research area, for example aboriginal health, health promotion and injury prevention, patient safety, global health, community rehabilitation and disability studies and much more. Thanks to the engagement of faculty the HSOC Program received a very positive feedback from the external review conducted during 2013. Special mention of the contributions of the department to supervision of student’s honours thesis research was made. Innovations for 2013 include the offering of a new undergraduate course in Epidemiology and work on creating service learning opportunities that develop community engagement skills for students. The appointment of Dr Fabiola Aparicio Ting to the role of Assistant Director has been a great addition to our team. Dr Ting provided leadership in a comprehensive curriculum mapping project that has helped to create greater levels of collaboration and synthesis between the various course offerings. Each year we see a growing number of our HSOC students pursuing Masters Programs in Public Health across Canada, the US and Europe. Public Health, Law and Medicine continue to be the main areas for student career development. We have attracted an unprecedented number of high quality applicants to the program and we are seeing many students interested in taking an HSOC minor to compliment their biomedical focused studies. Our goals for the upcoming year are to strengthen our team through even closer engagement with members of the department who offer such a rich learning environment for the BHSc students.

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GRADUATE EDUCATION Graduate Program Director: Dr. Marilynne Hebert until September 2012; and Dr. Tanya Beran September 2012-continuing We are very proud of our students’ continuing excellence in their academic work, thesis projects and professional development. We extend congratulations to them, many of whom have been successful in obtaining scholarships and external funding over the past year. Our students’ academic achievements have also been recognized through receipt of a number of prestigious awards, some of which are listed below: • Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Robin Walker, Jody Boffa, Daniel Yavin, Alyshah Kaba • AXA Research Fund Doctoral Fellowship (EU): Monica Cepiou-Martin • Chancellor’s Graduate Medal: Stephen Wilton (2011), Alka Patel (2013) • Governor General’s Gold Medal: Sachin Pendharkhar (2012), Mohammed Almekhlafi (2013) • Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal: Zaheed Damani • Izaak Walton Killam Scholarship: Amrita Roy, Robin Walker • JB Hyne Research Innovation Award: Robin Walker • Michael Lazar Community Service Award: Zaheed Damani • CCORT/CIHR Doctoral Fellowship: Alka Patel • RAMHPS/CIHR Fellowship: Kathleen Chaput During the period July 2011 to June 2013, 217 students were registered within four degree programs offered through CHS under the auspices of the Faculty of Graduate Studies:

• thesis-based programs o MSc - 116 students o PhD – 68 students

• course-based programs o MDCS (Master of Disability and Community Studies - 33 students o MCM (Master of Community Medicine) – available only to residents in the Public Health and

Preventive Medicine program - 0 students (this program is being phased out).

Students in the MSc and PhD programs specialize in one of the following specializations: Biostatistics, Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies (CRDS), Epidemiology (including MSc in Healthcare Epidemiology and Clinical Epidemiology), Health Services Research, Population/Public Health, and Medical Education which was added in 2012-13. The distribution by degrees and specializations were as follows:

Thesis-Based Specializations MSc PhD July’10-June’11 July’11-June’13 July’10-June’11 July’11-June’13

Biostatistics 0 1 3 2 Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies

0 2 2 7

Epidemiology (incl. MSc options in Clinical and Healthcare Epidemiology)

29 24+13=37 15 14+6=20

Health Services Research 20 19+11=30 14 11+7=18 Population/Public Health 15 10+6+3=19 10 8+1=9 Medical Education - 25+2=27 - 12 Total 64 116 44 68

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Course-based Specialization MDCS July’10-June’11 July’11-June’13

Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies 23 33

Grand Total – All Programs 131 217*

* During 2012-13 the Medical Education specialization of the Medical Science graduate program was transferred into the Community Health Sciences graduate program, resulting in a significant increase in the number of active students.

GRADUATE STUDENTS COMPLETING THEIR PROGRAMS IN 2011-2013

The students continue to distinguish themselves with thesis and capstone projects that are innovative and insightful. We congratulate our graduates from 2011-13. MSc Students

♦ Sajid Ali (Supervisor: Dr. Richard E. Scott) Thesis Title: Formulation Of A National e-Health Strategy Development Framework for Pakisatan

♦ Mohammed Almekhlafi (Supervisor: Dr. Michael D. Hill) Thesis Title: The Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting in Calgary

♦ Belal Alshaikh (Supervisor: Dr. Reg Sauve) Thesis Title: Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus Sepsis in Preterm Infants and Long Term Neurodevelopmental Outcome

♦ Ghazwan Altabbaa (Supervisor: Dr. William Ghali) Thesis Title: Visualization of reasoning and clinical diagnostic decision making

♦ Cheryl Barnabe (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Barr/Dr. Marja Verhoef) Thesis Title: Assessment of Bony Damage Using High Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT) in Rheumatoid Arthritis

♦ Sonia Butalia (Supervisor: Dr. Doreen Rabi) Thesis Title: Clinical, sociodemographic, and environmental factors associated with hospitalizations for acute complications in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus

♦ Elisabeth Cardoso-Pereira (Supervisor: Dr. Ardene Robinson Vollman) Thesis Title: An evaluability assessment of a program to combat stigma to mental illness in the workplace

♦ Vinay Deved (Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn) Thesis Title: Quality of care and outcomes for First Nations People and non-First Nations People with diabetes mellitus

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♦ Allen Dong (Supervisor: Dr. Glenys Godlovitch/Dr. Tom Noseworthy) Thesis Title: Data Stewardship in Electronic Medical Records and the Policy Challenges for Research Programs: A Canadian Perspective

♦ Ken Fyie (Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Marshall) Thesis Title: An Evaluation of the Primary-to-Specialist Referral System for Elective Hip and Knee Replacements in Alberta.

♦ Juan Garcia-Rodriguez (Supervisor: Dr. Tyrone Donnon, Department of Community Health Sciences) Thesis Title: Comprehensive Video-Module Instruction and alternative for Teaching IUD insertion to Family Medicine Residents

♦ Carola Guardia Tello (Supervisor: Dr. Wilfreda Thurston) Thesis Title: The intersection of early childhood caries and domestic violence: How dentists and dental hygienists in Alberta frame the issue

♦ Steven Heitman (Supervisor: Dr. Braden Manns/Dr. Robert Hilsden) Thesis Title: Economic Evaluation of Colorectal Cancer Screening for Average Risk Individuals

♦ Carmen Hurd (Supervisor: Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer) Thesis Title: Assessing Adult Medicine Specialists Using Multisource Feedback: A Longitudinal Study

♦ Amy Johnston (Supervisor: Dr. Gregor Wolbring/Dr. Richard Scott) Thesis Title: Scoping the Literature for Synthetic Biology’s Envisioned Products: Identifying Potential Impacts on the Lives of Albertans

♦ Joseph Kaunda (Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) Thesis Title: To investigate the reliability of a Radio Frequency ID/electronic exciter system in detection of hand washing events; and to investigate nurses’ hand hygiene practices and explore the social and behavioral factors which influence these practices

♦ Stacy Kozak (Supervisor: Dr. Chad Saunders) Thesis Title: Understanding Health System Efficiency: An Examination of Incomplete Appointments

♦ Julie Kryzanowski (Supervisor: Dr. Lynn McIntyre) Thesis Title: Identification of neighbourhood-level built environment predictors of childhood injury risk through city-wide mapping and a divergent case approach in Calgary, Canada

♦ Daniel Lane (Supervisor: Dr. Tom Stelfox) Thesis Title: Best Practice Recommendations for Patient Care Rounds in the Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review of Current Practices, Facilitators and Barriers

♦ Kathryn Linton (Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) Thesis Title: The Impact of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia among Pre-Hospital Intubated Patients

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♦ Jane Madison McChesney (Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Jette) Thesis Title: Development and Validation of an ICD-10 Case Definition for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury using Canadian Administrative Data

♦ Tharsiya Nagulesapillai (Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Tough) Thesis Title: Prediction of breastfeeding outcomes: Results from the All Our Babies study

♦ Craig Pearce (Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Henderson) Thesis Title: Measuring the effectiveness of terminal cleaning by housekeepers at the Foothills Medical Center

♦ Leah Jeanne Ricketson (Supervisor: Dr. James Kellner) Thesis Title: Factors Influencing Early and Late Mortality in Adults with Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Calgary, Alberta

♦ Magali Robert (Supervisor: Dr. Sue Ross) Thesis Title: How do we measure vulvar pain? Objective measurement of a subjective parameter

♦ Mahnoush Rostami (Supervisor: Dr. Lynn McIntyre) Thesis Title: Exploring Changing Patterns of Weight Classification among Stunted Women in South Asia, 1996-2007

♦ Nicole Ruest (Supervisor: Dr. Brent Hagel) Thesis Title: Environmental Determinants of Bicycling Injuries

♦ Ing Shian Soon (Supervisor: Dr. Gilaad Kaplan) Thesis Title: The colectomy outcome in childhood-onset ulcerative colitis: A population-based study

♦ Ann Toohey (Supervisor: Dr. Melanie Rock/Dr. Gavin McCormack) Thesis Title: Neighbourhoods, dogs and walking: An exploration of factors relevant to healthy aging in place

♦ Rob Weaver (Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn/Dr. Matthew James) Thesis Title: An outcome evaluation of the diabetes education component of the Living Well Program

♦ Carol Weller (now Hubbard) (Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Tough) Thesis Title: Patterns of Health Care Utilization and Mental Health Characteristics of Pregnant and Early Postpartum Women

♦ Anna Zadunayski (Supervisor: Dr. Glenys Godlovitch) Thesis Title: Legal and Ethical Implications of Newborn Screening for Prenatal Exposure to Drugs and Alcohol: The Case for Policy Development and Law Reform

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PhD Students

♦ Salma Khaled (Supervisor: Dr. Scott Patten) Thesis Title: The Association between Cigarette Smoking and Major Depression in the Canadian Population: a Longitudinal Investigation of Competing Non-causal and Causal Models

♦ Helen Lee (Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Currie) Thesis Title: The Economics of Healthy Eating

♦ Brenda Leung (Supervisor: Dr. Bonnie Kaplan) Thesis Title: The role of micronutrients in maternal mood and child neurodevelopment

♦ Jordana Linder (Supervisor: Dr. Lindsay McLaren) Thesis Title: A mixed-methods study of peer influences and body-related attitudes and behaviours in young adolescents attending an overnight summer camp

♦ Aliyah Mawji (Supervisor: Dr. Ardene Robinson Vollman/Dr. Jennifer Hatfield) Thesis Title: Plagiocephaly in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Incidence, Risk Factors and Follow-Up

♦ Amy Metcalfe (Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Tough) Thesis Title: Impact of Prenatal Screening on Future Resource Utilization During Pregnancy

♦ Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi (Supervisor: Dr. Hude Quan/Dr. Kathryn King) Thesis Title: Well-being, Health Care Access and Services Utilization Among French Speaking Minorities: Qualitative Interviews and a Cross Sectional Survey of Calgary and Canada

♦ Alka Patel (Supervisor: Dr. William Ghali) Thesis Title: Evaluating Geographic Access to Cardiac Catheterization Facilities to Inform Regionalized Models of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction

♦ Antony Porcino (Supervisor: Dr. Marja Verhoef) Thesis Title: A Combined-methods Study of the Training and Practice of Alberta’s Therapeutic Massage Bodywork Providers

♦ Rithesh Ram (Supervisor: Dr. Preston Wiley/Dr. Willem Meeuwisse) Thesis Title: Treatment of Achilles tendinopathy

♦ Heather Ray (Supervisor: Dr. Marja Verhoef) Thesis Title: Dragon Boat Racing: An Evaluation of its Influence on the Health-Related Quality of Life of Breast Cancer Survivors

♦ Paul Ronksley (Supervisor: Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn) Thesis Title: Unmet Health Care Needs and Adverse Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Disease

♦ Adrian Specogna (Supervisor: Dr. Michael D. Hill/Dr. Scott Patten) Thesis Title: Evidence for the Appropriate Testing and Implementation of New Therapies for Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Canada

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♦ Greg Yelland (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Scott/Dr. Marja Verhoef) Thesis Title: Developing a Framework for Understanding Organizational Culture in Healthcare Organizations from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective

MDCS Students ♦ Nadia Asghar (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran)

Capstone Project Title: unavailable

♦ Kueth Diew (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: unavailable

♦ Shelley Genest (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: unavailable

♦ Linda Langevin (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: Breaking the Cycle

♦ Jennifer Catherine Laughy (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: Employability Outcomes of People with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome: A Concern on the Rise

♦ Jennifer Lugg (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: unavailable

♦ Bob James Rogers (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: unavailable

♦ Marianna Sasvari (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: unavailable

♦ Zsuzsanna Tamas (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Cran) Capstone Project Title: unavailable

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GRADUATE STUDENTS CONTINUING IN JUNE 2013

MSc Students Supervisor/Co-Supervisor Ahmad Abuzinadah Dr. Claudio Violato /Dr. Lara Cooke Ibrahim Al Ghaithi Dr. Tyrone Donnon Essa Al-Awad Dr. Claudio Violato Hamed Alghamdi Dr. Kenton Hecker Wesam Alhejily Dr. Claudio Violato Haydi Alwassia Dr. Tanis Fenton /Dr. Reg Sauve Farnaz Amoozegar Dr. Nathalie Jette /Dr. Scott Patten Cheryl Andres Dr. Herbert Emery /Dr. James Dickinson Emmanuel Anokye Dr. Jayna Holroyd-Leduc Janice Austin Dr. Claudio Violato Anke Banks Dr. Kevin McLaughlin Adam Bass Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer Jaime Bastos Dr. Tom Stelfox Cynthia Beck Dr. Scott Patten Simon Berthelot Dr. Tom Stelfox Arden Birney Dr. Jianli Wang Christopher Blackmore Dr. Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci Niklas Bobrovitz Dr. Tom Stelfox Carmelle Bolo Dr. Jianli Wang Simona Burs Dr. Doreen Rabi /Dr. William Ghali Jason Cabaj Dr. James Kellner Julie Ann Carson Dr. Kevin McLaughlin Vikas Chaubey Dr. Kevin Laupland /Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn Trevor Cook Dr. Jianli Wang Amy Couperthwaite Dr. Brent Hagel Stephanie Coward Dr. Gilaad Kaplan Viktoria Dulinova Dr. Claudio Violato Arden Duncan Bonokoski Dr. Cheryl Crocker Jonathan Dykeman Dr. Samuel Wiebe /Dr. Nathalie Jette Mauricio Ferri Dr. Tom Stelfox Jonathan Gaudet Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer Jan Grendar Dr. Tanya Beran Petra Grendarova Dr. Marilynne Hebert Jennifer (Athayde) Griffin Dr. Sylvain Coderre Shannon Louise Groff Dr. Jayna Holroyd-Leduc /Dr. Barry Bultz Jeremy Ho Dr. Jennifer Hatfield Amy Hobbs Dr. Joseph Dort Jessalyn Holodinsky Dr. Tom Stelfox Joan Horton Dr. Tyrone Donnon Pamela Hruska Dr. Kenton Hecker James Lewis Huffman Dr. Kevin McLaughlin Emily Hutcheon Dr. Gregor Wolbring Jason (Shuonan) Jiang Dr. Hude Quan Rachel Jolley Dr. Chip Doig Karen Kam Dr. Gillian Currie /Dr. Alberto Nettel-Aguirre

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Bushra Khokhar Dr. Doreen Rabi Joseph Kim Dr. Elizabeth Henderson Lawrence Korngut Dr. Samuel Wiebe /Dr. Nathalie Jette Sarah Lacny Dr. Deborah Marshall Jonathan Adebola Lambo Dr. Margaret Russell Michael Lang Dr. Joseph Dort /Dr. Janine Giese-Davis Trevor Langhan Dr. Claudio Violato Yoonshin Lee Dr. Tanis Fenton Laura Leggett Dr. Fiona Clement Kelsey Lucyk Dr. Frank Stahnisch /Dr. Lindsay McLaren Brian Marriott Dr. Gillian Currie Bijoy Menon Dr. Michael D. Hill /Dr. Samuel Wiebe Tina Nash Dr. Wilfreda Thurston Jack Pang Dr. Rob Myers Vicky Marjolijn Parkins Dr. Kevin McLaughlin Ted Pfister Dr. Christine Friedenreich Ken Pfister Dr. Brent Hagel Alexandra Phillips Dr. Cindy Adams Leora Rabatach Dr. Kenton Hecker Reginald Ryan Reyes Dr. Scott Patten Jodie Roberts Dr. Nathalie Jette /Dr. Scott Patten Anne Roggensack Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer /Dr. Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci Peter Rymkiewicz Dr. James Dickinson David Sabapathy Dr. Hude Quan Keri Jo Sawka Dr. Gavin McCormack /Dr. Alberto Nettel-Aguirre Shadi Shihata Dr. Kent Hecker Jason Silverman Dr. Sylvain Coderre /Dr. Maitreyi Raman Tara Smith Dr. Penelope Hawe Thomas Stark Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer Helen Tam Dr. Neil Drummond /Dr. Alberto Nettel-Aguirre Adam Thomas Dr. Jennifer Hatfield Waqar Waheed Dr. Scott Patten Keri Williams Dr. Wilfreda Thurston Todd Wilson Dr. Gordon Fick Karin Winston Dr. Deborah Dewey Sophya Yumakulov Dr. Marja Verhoef PhD Students Supervisor/Co-Supervisor Fariba Aghajafari Dr. Sue Ross /Dr. Maeve O'Beirne Noof Al Baz Dr. Tanya Beran /Dr. Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci Nouf Al Harbi Dr. Tanya Beran /Dr. Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci Faisal Albagmi Dr. Anne Hughson Lisa Allen Dr. Jennifer Hatfield Sarah Mohamed Alyousif Dr. Tanya Beran /Dr. Lubna Baig Donna Baird Dr. Nancy Marlett Claire Barber Dr. John Esdaile /Dr. Deborah Marshall Sandra Berzins Dr. Scott Patten /Dr. Andrew Bulloch Jody Boffa Dr. Robert Cowie /Dr. Maria Mayan Barbara Buch Dr. Nancy Marlett David Campbell Dr. Braden Manns /Dr. Kathryn King-Shier

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Monica Cepoiu-Martin Dr. Scott Patten /Dr. Colleen Maxwell Kathleen Chaput Dr. Suzanne Tough /Dr. Carol Adair Suzette Rose Cooke Dr. Tanya Beran Ceara Cunningham Dr. Hude Quan /Dr. Nathalie Jette Zaheed Damani Dr. Deborah Marshall Daniel Dutton Dr. Lindsay McLaren Maede Ejaredar Dr. Deborah Dewey Kirsten Fiest Dr. Scott Patten /Dr. Nathalie Jette Patricia Foy Dr. Anne Hughson Lyle Frank Dr. Nancy Marlett Elizabeth Freiheit Dr. Misha Eliasziw /Dr. Gordon Fick Alexandra Frolkis Dr. Gilaad Kaplan Susan Huculak Dr. Marja Verhoef Alyshah Kaba Dr. Tanya Beran Anna Kania Dr. Marja Verhoef Mary Ellen Kuenzig Dr. Gilaad Kaplan Diane Lorenzetti Dr. Tanya Beran Irene Wai Yan Ma Dr. Kevin McLaughlin Jennifer Mitchell Dr. Bonnie Lashewicz Fadi Mohammad Munshi Dr. Peter Harasym /Dr. Tanya Beran Mona Nasir Dr. Claudio Violato Duyen Nguyen Dr. Lynn McIntyre /Dr. Lindsay McLaren Daniel Niven Dr. Tom Stelfox /Dr. Shannon Straus Ruksana Rashid Dr. Kathryn King /Dr. David Gregory, U of Regina Elfriede Dawn Rault Dr. Melanie Rock Gwynne Rees Dr. Elizabeth Henderson Derek Roberts Dr. David Zygun /Dr. Tom Stelfox Amrita Roy Dr. Wilfreda Thurston Khara Sauro Dr. Samuel Wiebe /Dr. Nathalie Jette Kimberley Simmonds Dr. Kevin Laupland /Dr. Elizabeth Henderson Andrea Soo Dr. Misha Eliasziw /Dr. Gordon Fick Deanne Taylor Dr. Gregor Wolbring Ann Toohey Dr. Melanie Rock Dennis Valdez Dr. Tyrone Donnon Isabelle Vallerand Dr. Scott Patten /Dr. Andrew Bulloch Susan van Rheenen Dr. Michael D. Hill Robin Walker Dr. Hude Quan Amy Louise Warren Dr. Tyrone Donnon Daniel Yavin Dr. Samuel Wiebe /Dr. Nathalie Jette Dean Yergens Dr. William Ghali Alia Zawawi Dr. Claudio Violato /Dr. Lubna Baig MDCS Students Supervisor Yaser Al Malik Dr. Susan Cran Stephanie Bolton Dr. Susan Cran Valerie Budd-Pritchard Dr. Susan Cran Jolanta Budzik Dr. Susan Cran Marie Dancsok Dr. Susan Cran Balreen Gosal Dr. Anne Hughson Lindsey Heimdahl Dr. Susan Cran

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Rashika Kalia Dr. Susan Cran Catharyn Miller Dr. Susan Cran Heidi Pylypjuk Dr. Susan Cran Carla Ramirez-Aragon Dr. Susan Cran Shannon Smid Dr. Susan Cran Emily Szasz Dr. Susan Cran Jailin Threinen (Bertolin) Dr. Susan Cran Amanda van Aggelen Dr. Susan Cran Kaitlin Van Osch Dr. Susan Cran Jill Wagar Dr. Susan Cran

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GRADUATE COURSES OFFERED IN 2011-2013

Faculty in the Department of Community Health Sciences offered 71 graduate courses over the two years 2011-2013:

• 38 MDCH courses • 8 MDSC courses in Medical Education • 25 CORE courses supporting the CRDS specialization

Courses Offered In 2011-12 MDCH COURSES Core Courses Course Coordinator(s) MDCH 600: Introduction to Community Health Sciences M Hebert MDCH 601: Determinants of Health I L McIntyre MDCH 610: Biostatistics I: Essentials of Biostatistics M Eliasziw MDCH 640: Fundamentals of Epidemiology S Patten MDCH 681: Health Research Methods L McLaren Biostatistics MDCH 611: Biostatistics II G Fick Epidemiology MDCH 603: Practicum in Healthcare Epidemiology EA Henderson MDCH 643: Research in Healthcare Epidemiology

and Infection Control EA Henderson MDCH 649: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases EA Henderson MDCH 740: Advanced Epidemiology B Hagel, C Maxwell MDCH 741: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis R Sauve, W Ghali Health Services Research MDCH 660: Foundations of Health Services Research B Hemmelgarn, N Jette MDCH 661: Health Economics I H Emery MDCH 662: Economic Evaluation G Currie MDCH 663: Decision Analysis in Health Economic Evaluation B Manns MDCH 664: Administrative Data Analysis Methodology H Quan Population/Public Health MDCH 680: Foundations of Population/Public Health M Rock

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Health Research Methods MDCH 761: Advanced Methods in Health Research M Verhoef CORE (COMMUNITY REHABILITATION) COURSES CORE 603.08: Advanced Topics in Disability & Law J Conway CORE 603.12: Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion C Crocker CORE 603.13: Leadership & Innovation C Crocker, G Wolbring CORE 603.15 Foundations & Futures of Rehabilitation B Lashewicz CORE 603.16 Appraisals in Quantitative Health T Beran CORE 603.18 Social Construction: Health Capacity

& Disability N Marlett CORE 624.20 Specialization Theory & Practice: A Collaborative

Inquiry Capstone N Marlett CORE 676 Consultation in Human Services & Systems

(AKA Program Evaluation) A Hughson CORE 691.04 Adapting Curriculum in Schools K-12 C Saby CORE 691.32 Addressing Challenging Behaviours in the Classroom C Johnson CORE 691.33 Current Issues in Collaboration, Ethics,

Management & Related Topics A Hughson CORE 691.42 Health Research, Emerging Technologies &

Marginalized Groups G Wolbring CORE 691.44 Bioethics & People with Disabilities G Wolbring MDSC COURSES IN THE MEDICAL EDUCATION GRADUATE PROGRAM MDSC 733: Research Design & Statistics in Medical C Violato, K Hecker, T Beran

Education MDSC 734: Qualitative Measurements for Medical Education J Lockyer MDSC 735: Teaching Methods in the Medical Sciences T Donnon MDSC 737: Curriculum Design and Evaluation in the

Medical Sciences J Lockyer MDSC 739: Medical Education Measurement T Donnon MDSC 755.81 Advanced Research Design & Statistics in Medical Education K Hecker, T Beran MDSC 755.04: Medical Education Meta-Analysis T Donnon Courses Offered In 2012-13 MDCH COURSES Core Courses Course Coordinator(s) MDCH 600: Introduction to Community Health Sciences M Hebert MDCH 601: Determinants of Health I L McIntyre MDCH 610: Biostatistics I: Essentials of Biostatistics G Fick MDCH 640: Fundamentals of Epidemiology S Patten MDCH 681: Health Research Methods L McLaren



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Biostatistics MDCH 611: Biostatistics II G Fick MDCH 612: Biostatistics III G Fick Epidemiology MDCH 641: Introduction to Clinical Trials D Exner MDCH 646: Introduction to Public Health Surveillance M Russell MDCH 647: Clinical Epidemiology R Sauve, W. Ghali MDCH 740: Advanced Epidemiology B Hagel MDCH 741: Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analysis W Ghali, R Sauve, B Hemmelgarn, D Rabi Health Services Research MDCH 660: Foundations of Health Services Research B Hemmelgarn, N Jette MDCH 661: Health Economics I H Emery MDCH 662: Economic Evaluation G Currie MDCH 666: Health Policy A Casebeer MDCH 700 Introduction to Secondary Databases F Clement, H Quan Population/Public Health MDCH 680 – Foundations of Population/Public Health L McLaren MDCH 683 – Qualitative Health Research M Rock Health Research Methods MDCH 761: Advanced Methods in Health Research M Verhoef Medical Education MDSC 733: Research Design & Statistics in Medical C Violato, K Hecker, T Beran

Education MDSC 734: Qualitative Measurements for Medical Education J. Lockyer MDSC 735: Teaching Methods in the Medical Sciences T Donnon, K Hecker MDSC 737: Curriculum Design and Evaluation in the J Lockyer

Medical Sciences MDSC 739: Medical Education Measurement T Donnon MDSC 755.04: Simulation for Health Professions A. Vallevand, C. Violato MDSC 755.81 Advanced Research Design & Statistics in Medical Education K Hecker, T Beran MDSC 755.34: Medical Education Meta-Analysis T Donnon CORE (COMMUNITY REHABILITATION) COURSES CORE 603: Appraisals in Quantitative Health T Beran CORE 603.08: Law in Community Rehabilitation J Conway CORE 603.12: Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion C Crocker CORE 603.15: Foundations of Disability & Community Studies B Lashewicz CORE 603.18: Social Construction: Health Capacity & Disability N Marlett



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CORE 624.22: Specialization Theory & Practice: A collaborative inquiry capstone N Marlett CORE 676: Consultation in Human Services and Systems A. Hughson CORE 691.04: Adapting Curriculum in Schools K-12 C Saby CORE 691.32: Addressing Challenging Behaviours in the Classroom C Johnson CORE 691.33: Current Issues in Collaboration, Ethics, Mgmt & Related Topics A Hughson CORE 691.42: Health Research, Emerging Technologies & Marginalized Groups G Wolbring CORE 691.44: Bioethics & People with Disabilities G Wolbring

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POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION Program Director: Dr. David Strong The Department offers a five-year Residency Training Program in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and also MSc graduate education training in the Department of Community Health Sciences. The program sometimes accepts residents transferring from other programs or physicians re-entering training from practice. Previous training is taken into consideration before determining what postgraduate year the resident will enter. The program is under the leadership of Program Director, Dr. David Strong and the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Education Committee. During the academic year, July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2013, a total of thirteen residents were enrolled in the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Training Program and were distributed across all five years of training. One resident, Dr. David Sabapathy, successfully completed his program of studies in June 2013. A list of our residents is found below. On July 1, 2013, three new residents were enrolled in the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Training Program.

Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residents

Ongoing

Dr. Jason Cabaj Dr. Jason Devlin

Dr. Lizette Elumir Dr. Nicholas Etches Dr. Lucas Gursky Dr. Shaun Hosein

*Dr. Jong Kim Dr. Shobhit Maruti Dr. Silvina Mema

Dr. Mohammed Mosli Dr. Will Pynten

Dr. Anila Ramaliu (Joint with Family Medicine)

Dr. David Sabapathy (Successfully completed in June 2013)

New in July 2013

Zlatica Biljetina

Carol Fenton Karla Gustafson

*Also enrolled in MSc Graduate Education Program

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CONTINUING EDUCATION The Department played a key role in the delivery of several opportunities for health personnel to participate in educational activities. These activities included, but were not limited to, the following: Annual Health Research Methods Course Chair: (2012-2013) Dr. Lindsay McLaren The Health Research Methods Course is typically held annually and incorporates a wide array of health research training opportunities. The 2-day course offers a broad range of workshops on the research process, methods and tools. After a two-year hiatus in 2010 and 2011, the course was held again in 2012 and 2013. Discussions with Alberta Health Services related to their directions and staff learning needs along with the Department of Family Medicine have led the way to developing a new on-line version for 2014. The excellent leadership of Dr. Marilynne Hebert, 2014 course chair, is acknowledged in this regard. Learning Resources in Occupational Medicine Coordinator: Dr. Kenneth Corbet Departmental activities related to Occupational Health and Medicine included lectures and small group teaching in the undergraduate curriculum, supervising student clinical and research projects, seminars in three residency training programs, and continuing education sessions organized by the Office of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development. Learning resources from these educational activities will be available on a new website for medical students, residents and practicing physicians in Alberta.

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2011-2013 SEMINAR SERIES

Seminar Coordinators: Drs. Melanie Rock, Hude Quan and Ann Casebeer Note: Speakers whose names are in BOLD are faculty members of the

Department of Community Health Sciences

Date Title Speaker September 16, 2011 The grant funding game:

Strategies that might help your funding applications

Dr. William Ghali, Professor, Depts of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Scientific Director, Institute for Public Health, Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research, AIHS Senior Health Scholar

September 23, 2011 Breast Cancer Prevention Across the Lifespan

Dr. Carolyn Gotay, Professor, Canadian Cancer Society Chair in Cancer Primary Prevention, University of British Columbia

September 30, 2011 Human Factors in Healthcare: The Design of Safe and Usable Hospitals and Medical Devices

Jeff Caird, PhD Department of Psychology, Departments of Anesthesia and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary and Director, Healthcare Human Factors and Simulation Laboratory, Ward of the 21st Century’s Research and Innovation Centre.

October 14, 2011 Challenges and Opportunities in Population Health Intervention Research: Examples from Initiatives Aimed at Active Transportation and Healthy Body Image

Dr. Lise Gauvin Professor of Social & Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal

October 21, 2011 How Mental Health Law Affects the Patient Experience

Fay Orr Mental Health Patient Advocate, Government of Alberta

October 28, 2011 Clinical /Community Correlation for Healthy Populations Course

Dr. Nancy Marlett and the Specific Population preceptors Program of Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies

November 4, 2011 Developing a Research Program and Finding a Home: A Community Based Journey from a Primary Care Perspective

Dr. Charles H. Samuels, Medical Director, Centre for Sleep and Human Performance Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept of Family Medicine, University of Calgary.

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Date Title Speaker November 18, 2011 The risks of modeling relative risk?

Dr. Tyler Williamson Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s University

November 25, 2011 Geographic systems and population health research: examples from spatial injury surveillance

Dr. Nadine Schuurman Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University

December 9, 2011 Methodological issues in recruiting and following vulnerable populations

Dr. Anita Palepu Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia

December 16, 2011 Building a Decision Support Tool for Planning Health Services for Osteoarthritis Patients: How many people in Alberta have osteoarthritis now and will have osteoarthritis in the future?

Dr. Deborah Marshall Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

January 13, 2012 Associations between air pollution, urban green space and mortality: findings from the Ontario Tax Cohort study

Dr. Paul Villeneuve Senior Research Scientist, Population Studies Division, Health Canada

January 20, 2012 Source water protection and public health

Dr. Robert Patrick Department of Geography and Planning & School of Environment and Sustainability University of Saskatchewan

January 27, 2012 “The grant resubmission game: Strategies

that might help you tap in the rebound”

Dr. William Ghali Professor, Depts of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Scientific Director, Institute for Public Health, Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research, AIHS Senior Health Scholar Panel including Drs. Hude Quan, Tom Stelfox, Lynn McIntyre and Doreen Rabi

February 3, 2012 Conformity to Peers Dr. Tanya Beran Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

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Date Title Speaker February 10, 2012 Helping babies breathe Dr. Nalini Singhal

Department of Paediatrics Neonatology Unit, Alberta Health Services

February 24, 2012 Health Technology Assessment Dr. Fiona Clement Director, Health Technology Assessment Unit, Dept. of Community Health Sciences

March 2, 2012 The Aboriginal Healing Foundation: The

legacy of residential schools and its impact on Aboriginal health and social well-being.

Dr. Mike Degagne Executive Director, Aboriginal Healing Foundation

March 9, 2012 Henry Sigerist’s Advocacy of Social Medicine and Universal Health Insurance in North America, 1932-1947

Dr. Theodore M. Brown University of Rochester Medical Centre, New York

March 16, 2012 Setting the Scene for Enhanced Aboriginal

Arthritis Care in Alberta

Dr. Cheryl Barnabe Department of Medicine, University of Calgary

March 23, 2012 The Mental Health Commission of Canada - Sparking Change in Canada’s Mental Health System

Dave Walker Mental Health Commission of Canada

March 30, 2012 The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States

Dr. Craig Gundersen Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois

April 13, 2012 Boundary work in the Health Research Field?

Dr. Mathieu Albert University of Toronto

April 20, 2012 Is Health Care Research and Planning ready for Patient Engagement Researchers?

A team presentation: Deborah Marshall, Tracy Wasylak, Nancy Marlett, Svetlana Shklarov with patient engagement researchers, Colin Penman, Rooh Khan and Marlyn Gill.

April 27, 2012 Improving Chronic Disease Estimates using Administrative Health Databases: A Comparison of Methods

Dr. Lisa Lix University of Saskatchewan

May 4, 2012 Environmental Health and the Paradox of Prosperity

Dr. Gil Kaplan, Department of Community Health Sciences

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Date Title Speaker May 11, 2012 Clinical lessons from GENDEP for the

treatment of depression Dr. Katherine Aitchison Professor of Psychiatry, University of Alberta

May 25, 2012 Driver Distraction from Cell Phones and Text Messaging: Meta-analyses and Countermeasures

Dr. Jeff Caird Professor, Department of Psychology, Adjunct Professor, Departments of Anesthesia and Community Health Sciences

June 1, 2012 Urban Aboriginal Health in Alberta: What Promotes Risk? What Predicts Resilience?

Dr. Cheryl Currie, Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Lethbridge

June 8, 2012 Marketing foods to children: Are we asking the right questions?

Dr. Charlene Elliott CIHR Canada Research Chair in Food Marketing, Policy and Health, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Calgary

June 15, 2012 Integrating Mental Health and Primary Care: Crossing the Quality Chasm

Dr. Harold Pincus Professor, Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University

June 22, 2012 Budgeting for success in grant applications Dr. William Ghali Professor, Depts of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Scientific Director, Institute for Public Health, Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research, AIHS Senior Health Scholar Panel including Drs. Penny Hawe, Tom Stelfox and Lynn McIntyre

July 13, 2012 Arabic women’s breast cancer screening practice: Awareness, knowledge, cultural beliefs and values, and participation rates

Dr. Tam Truong Donnelly Associate Professor, University of Calgary – Qatar, Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Community Health Sciences

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CENTRES, UNITS AND PROGRAMS

INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH (IPH) Scientific Director: Dr. William Ghali; Associate Scientific Director: Dr. Lynn McIntyre; Administrative Director: Jamie Day The Institute for Public Health (IPH) has advanced ambitiously in the reporting period between July 2011 and June 2013. Membership grew by almost 100 academics, health professionals, and other health knowledge users in those two years, to just fewer than 350 members dedicated to improving health and health care through stakeholder engagement, knowledge generation, and knowledge mobilization. Forty percent of members are affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine; 14% with other University of Calgary Faculties (including Arts, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Social Work, Haskayne School of Business, Werklund School of Education, Kinesiology, Environmental Design, and Schulich School of Engineering); 33% with Alberta Health Services; and the remainder with other institutions, agencies, and community groups. Dr. William Ghali continued as Scientific Director of the Institute, and his health systems research expertise and leadership experience has been ideally complemented by Dr. Lynn McIntyre, acting as Associate Scientific Director to IPH since September 2012. Dr. McIntyre is a population health researcher, CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, Board Chair of the Canadian Public Health Association, and previous Dean of the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University. The combined strength of this leadership team has greatly stimulated the Institute’s internal and external networking and research facilitation activities. For example, members’ success in applying for external research funding has been supported by IPH in several ways, including group grantsmanship presentations, an internal peer review program, and individualized strategic mentorship from Institute leadership. The benefits of these resources are becoming apparent, and IPH is now consistently one of UofC’s top two Institutes for the number of CIHR operating grants awarded. IPH has also created review processes that adapt to new and different funding competitions and, for example, supported all three of UofC’s successful, multi-million dollar AIHS CRIO Team and Program awards, announced in March 2013. The Institute has also been very active over the past two years in defining its goals and developing the tools, partnerships, and resources to help reach these goals. Highlights include:

• Definition of Vision (Better health and health care), Mission (To catalyze excellence in population health and health services research, to the benefit of local, national, and global communities) and Priority Themes (Enhanced Health Systems Performance, Improved Population Health, Innovative Tools and Methods for Public Health)

• Creation of IPH Strategic Advisory Board (April 2012) • Completion of IPH Business Plan, including fund development strategy (March 2013) • Elaboration of valuable partnerships, including Alberta Health Services Strategic Clinical Networks and

Campus Alberta Health Outcomes and Population Health • Provision of important knowledge dissemination and networking events, from support of focused interest

groups within the Institute, through strategic Institute-wide seminars and forums, to leadership of topical events that capture the interest of peers in the broader University and provincial environment

The end of the reporting period was marked by the Institute’s preparation to host its first meeting with its International Scientific Advisory Group, in September/October 2013. Assessment by world experts in population health and health services research and development will launch IPH’s next stage of strategic growth. For more information on the Institute for Public Health, see: www.iph.ucalgary.ca

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POPULATION HEALTH & INEQUITIES RESEARCH CENTRE (PHIRC) Scientific Co-Directors: Dr. Melanie Rock and Dr. Lindsay McLaren This Centre (www.ucalgary.ca/phirc) was re-launched in June 2013 as one of three flagship centres within the Institute for Public Health (IPH), to reflect significant strengths and successes in population health and inequities. PHIRC embodies IPH’s priority theme of “improved population health”. PHIRC’s mission is to serve as an intellectual hub for scholarship and constructive exchange of views and expertise pertaining to population health and inequities, through a confluence of the social sciences, the humanities, and the health sciences. PHIRC’s membership includes researchers (from various Faculties and Departments across the University of Calgary) and knowledge users (e.g., Alberta Health Services, United Way). HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT UNIT Director: Dr. Fiona Clement With the support of the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Institute of Public Health, the Health Technology Assessment Unit has continued to grow. Together with other provincial and national work, the Unit is responsive to the Alberta Health Technology Decision Process; the provincial decision-making process for evidence-informed funding decisions of non-drug technologies. Accordingly, the Unit is responsible for conducting 3-5 assessments each year as prioritized and directed by the process. A five-year multi-faceted proposal was developed for the unit with the mandate to building evidence-informed policy decision-making capacity in Alberta. The Unit is a leader in supporting evidence-informed health policy with innovative and relevant research. The HTA Unit, with Dr. Clement as the Director, completes health technology assessments to support evidence-informed health policy, uses innovative research to integrate evidence into policy, promotes the flow of research to policy and creates a receptive audience for evidence-informed health policy. Dr. Clement’s research interests are the use and development of economic evidence in the publicly funded health care reimbursement decision processes, drug policy and the optimal use of technology within the healthcare system (health technology reassessment). HEALTH ECONOMICS PROGRAM Coordinator: Dr. Gillian Currie Health economics is concerned primarily with the way that society’s resources are used to promote health. This includes not just those resources allocated formally by the health care system, but also those of other social agencies such as housing and education, and also of individuals. The research interests of the program’s members are correspondingly broad-ranging but united by their focus on the use of economic techniques to understand and improve health-related resource allocation. Members of the program are engaged in a variety of research activities that span both health services and population health. We apply our health economics research agendas across a wide variety of health contexts including but not limited to child health, chronic diseases, bone and joint health, and primary care. In Community Health Sciences, health economics education and training was until recently part of the Health Services Research and Population Health Graduate Specializations. As of 2013, we have introduced a new graduate specialization in Health Economics in the Department at both the Masters and PhD level. Courses in health economics include MDCH 661 (Health Economics I), scheduled annually for the fall term; MDCH 662 (Economic Evaluation), offered annually in the Winter term and MDCH 663 (Decision Analysis in Economic Evaluation) is offered every second year in the Spring term. Dr. Gillian Currie is the Health Economics specialization represenative on the Graduate Education Committee.

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Dr. Gillian Currie and Dr. Deborah Marshall co-lead the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment research group in the Institute of Public Health which includes members from Community Health Sciences as well as across the University and Alberta Health Services. We hold monthly meeting of our group where members – including graduate students present work in progress. In addition, members of our group invite external seminar speakers to campus which provides additional opportunities to build awareness of health economics research at the University of Calgary.

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CIHR EMERGING TEAM - WESTERN CANADA WAITING LIST INVESTIGATORS Chair: Dr. Tom Noseworthy The nature of our Emerging Team and collaboration reflects the characteristics and ideals designated by CIHR. Our group is national, with team members from five Provinces (AB, MB, ON, NS, QC); five Universities (University of Calgary, University of Toronto, University of Manitoba, University of Montreal, Dalhousie University); three regional health authorities (Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Capital Health District Health Authority); and, represents expertise in orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, medicine, health economics, social science, industrial engineering, business and library science, drawn from three pillars (clinical, health services and policy, population health research). Collaboration, linkage and exchange with the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute (ABJHI) substantially expands this expertise to a network of diverse scope, which includes amongst others, practicing physicians and decision-makers from regional health authorities across Alberta. The core investigative Team (n=14) members have had many and variable associations as individuals over the years, with several as research members of the Western Canada Waiting List Project (WCWL). From 1999-2006, WCWL represented an action research collaboration that worked on improving fairness by developing and testing priority-setting tools for scheduled services or referrals; formulating maximum acceptable waiting times and informing benchmark waiting times; and, elucidating the determinant of satisfaction and expectations for those on waiting lists. Investigators of the WCWL joined ABJHI in collaboration in 2007, added new members and applied for and received an AHFMR Team Grant April 1, 2008. This body of work synergizes with and is inextricably linked to that Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions (AI-HS) Grant, whose designated principal applicant is Dr. Cy Frank. Representatives from Alberta Health Services in Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia participate in this research work, interpretation and implementation, as well as sharing the benefits from knowledge transfer and exchange related to this work. The core investigative team meets biweekly (teleconference) and in-person on a semi-annual basis. The AI-HS Team Grant has provided some of our infrastructure necessary for this research and in 2008, the team applied for and received a CIHR Emerging Team Grant. Our current work, which is nearing completion, is focused on hip and knee replacement and includes four thematic areas: appropriateness; patient expectations; operations research and modeling; and, waiting time management strategies. The outcomes from this work will be completed in 2014/2015 and will have practical and applied significance to waiting time management. The convergence of the former WCWL, addition of new team members, association with the ABJHI and synergies to the recently created Bone and Joint Strategic Clinical Network in Alberta Health Services, create exciting synergies that promise meaningful impact on improving access to TJR, at a time when such knowledge and action is sorely needed.

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RESEARCH CHAIRS CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE Chair: Dr. Marja Verhoef The increased use of and demand for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has major implications for research and practice. Dr. Verhoef's research program focuses on CAM use in cancer. The main objectives of her research program are to (1) explore, describe and explain CAM decision-making, (2) contribute to the development of appropriate methodological approaches to evaluate CAM interventions (mixed methods and whole systems research), and 3) to evaluate integrative health care models in which both conventional medicine and CAM are used. Dr. Verhoef is a member of an international working group to further develop whole systems and outcomes research.

Aside from research, (1) building research literacy and capacity in CAM practitioners, (2) building understanding of CAM core concepts in undergraduate medical education and (3) training graduate students in CAM research are of great importance in Dr. Verhoef's program. CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH CHAIR IN GENDER AND HEALTH Chair: Dr. Lynn McIntyre This program of research aims to bring us closer to achieving the First Millennium Development Goal by assembling the food provisioning experiences of vulnerable women in diverse parts of the world to inform local and global action. The objectives of this five-year research program (July 2008 - June 2013) are to: 1) Extend the collection of vulnerable women's narratives on their food provisioning experiences to

additional global and domestic settings and life circumstances; 2) Analyse and contextualize these new narratives and those that have been accumulated over past studies to both

inform local intervention and to create a synthetic 'voice' articulating what women share in terms of their food provisioning experience and how their experiences differ;

3) Create and disseminate a gender-based theory of women's food provisioning experiences; and 4) Work with selected groups of women, research collaborators, civil society organizations, and policy makers to

use the information collected from women on their food provisioning experiences to achieve social action and policy change.

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CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Chair: Dr. William Ghali The Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research focuses on a combination of applied and methodological projects in the related areas of (1) cardiac disease, (2) diabetes, (3) cerebrovascular disease, and (4) venous thromboembolic disease. These all represent serious medical conditions that clearly have a large impact on the Canadian health care system and influence the health and quality of life of many Canadians. Cardiac disease, cerebrovascular disease, and venous thromboembolic disease share the common thread of being serious vascular diseases that constitute the focus of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Meanwhile, diabetes is a high prevalence condition that in many instances leads to these vascular diseases. Improved health care delivery to individuals with diabetes has the potential to positively impact the health care system through a reduced burden of vascular disease in Canada. THE JOHN A. BUCHANAN CHAIR IN GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE Chair: Dr. William Ghali The vision for this Professorship is an effective, efficient, and equitable health care system for Canadians with the mission to develop a world-class clinical research and academic training program housed within the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Calgary that focuses on the evaluation and improvement of health care delivery. The specific objectives are: - To recruit qualified faculty to academic appointments in the Department of Medicine (time-protected,

research-focused positions, with anticipation that most would seek cross-appointments to the Department of Community Health Sciences.)

- To recruit promising trainees to research fellowship and/or clinical scholar appointments in the Department

of Medicine (with expectation that the majority of these individuals would seek graduate training in the Department of Community Health Sciences.

- To invite accomplished academic researchers to Calgary for either typical academic visits (i.e., lectures,

meetings with selected faculty over 2 to 3 days) or for more extended ‘visiting scholar’ periods. These visits will present “John A. Buchanan lectures’ or in the case of extended visits, will be designated the ‘John A. Buchanan Visiting Scholar.”

- To contribute to infrastructure development (and/or maintenance or existing infrastructure) for academic

research in health services. This will be achieved through ongoing contributions to the “Ward of the 21st Century Initiative” (www.w21c.org), and through maintenance of the holder’s existing human and equipment infrastructure for research.

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ALBERTA MEDICAL FOUNDATION/HANNAH PROFESSORSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE Chair: Dr. Frank Stahnisch Dr. Stahnisch's research attempts to create in-depth understanding for the development and necessities of basic research in medicine and the health sciences. It further places medicine and health care in the wider context of society and culture with their specific traditions of healing, inquiry, health care and patient support. His expertise lies in a number of areas, such as the history and philosophy of laboratory-based research in Western medicine, the long history and theory of the nerve and brain sciences, as well as the history of public mental health and psychiatry.

Being trained as a medical doctor as well as in philosophy of science, Dr. Stahnisch became particularly interested in history of medicine as it allows the nature of often ground-breaking changes to be uncovered that not only gave rise to health research, as we know it today, but also separated other time-periods and cultures from one another. In the increasingly globalized and flexible world of today, such historical in-depth knowledge helps us to better understand the concepts of health, disease, suffering, research, and healing - not only in Western societies, but also in continuously merging cultures worldwide.

Dr. Stahnisch has published widely on the history of experimental biomedicine and the neurosciences, including one monograph on 19th century French experimental physiology and another monograph on the after-effects of laboratory physiology in Central Europe. A third monograph on early developments leading to the neurosciences as an interdisciplinary field in the 20th century is currently under review.

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FACULTY WITH PRIMARY OR JOINT APPOINTMENT IN COMMUNITY HEALTH SCIENCES

RESEARCH INTERESTS JULY 1, 2011 TO JUNE 30, 2013

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Cindy Adams, BSW, MSW, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key words: animal welfare, child welfare, social welfare, population health, epidemiology, communication skills, intersection between veterinary practice and human and animal health and wellbeing, social inequity. Dr. Adams’ is presently working on a range of projects that have to do with the exploration of opportunities within veterinary practice to address not only animal health but human health, the role of companion animals in our ageing population, implementation of a bio/lifestyle/social history component in veterinary medicine to better determine client values, preferences, needs in the context of the animal experience, health benefits of equine companionship. Dr. Fabiola Aparicio-Ting, MSC, MPH, PhD Instructor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key words: epidemiology, population health, scholarship of teaching and learning, undergraduate eduation Dr. Aparicio-Ting’s research interests are in the social epidemiology of health behaviours and cancer prevention in healthy populations. Her research is shifting to include a program of scholarship of teaching and learning with a focus on applied educational research in undergraduate health science education, curriculum development and evaluation; critical thinking; and interdisciplinary course development.

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Herman Barkema, PhD, DVM Head, Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Professor in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Production Animal

Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: epidemiology, gastro-intestinal system, microbiology, nutrition The over-all goal of Dr. Barkema’s research program is to ensure a safe and economical food supply with a reduced risk to transmission of zoonotic diseases to farm families and the general population. Dr. Barkema’s has two main research interests. His first interest is research to prevent and control infectious diseases on dairy farms, such as Johne’s disease and mastitis, with animal and public health perspectives. New prevention and control programs in Canada, The Netherlands, and other countries have been introduced or changed based on results of Dr. Barkema’s research. Dr. Barkema’s second main research interest is the interaction between host, microbes and the environment in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. He leads the Alberta Inflammatory Bowel Disease Consortium, a strategic research initiative funded by Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions. Cheryl Barnabe, BSC, BScM, MD, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: arthritis, indigenous health, health services, outcomes, epidemiology Dr. Barnabe’s research program goal is to achieve equitable health outcomes for Indigenous people with arthritis, complex intervention care models will be co-developed, implemented, and evaluated. These models will be informed by research identifying existing disparities and the system-level deficits perpetuating these. Arthritis is the most common chronic disease in Indigenous populations, and negatively affects overall and mental health, work productivity, societal participation, and causes premature death. Successful models of care to address this devastating disease that are valued and adopted by Indigenous communities are also more likely to be adopted for other chronic diseases where inequities in outcomes prevail.

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Susan G. Barr, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences Director, Rheumatology Residency Training Program RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, biologic agents, epidemiology As Co-director of the Pharmacovigilance Program, Dr. Barr is involved in research on the effectiveness and safety of biologic agents for rheumatoid arthritis in usual clinical practice. In collaboration with colleagues in Edmonton, this work has expanded to a Province-wide program under the Alberta Biologics for Inflammatory Arthritis Research Initiative. She is also involved in collaborative research with the Canadian Network for Improved Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (CaNIOS) ongoing multicentre studies, including malignancy in lupus and the genetic and environmental risk factors for lupus. In addition, Dr. Barr is interested in access to health services and has directed the successful implementation of the Central Referral and Triage in Rheumatology (CReATe Rheum) Program, with the goal of having the right patient see the right physician at the right time. This is of critical importance for patients with early inflammatory arthritis and this program has aided in the development of our Early Arthritis Clinic and other Specialty Clinics. Cynthia Beck, MD, MASc, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: mental health services, health services research, epidemiology, comorbidity, schizophrenia, mood disorders, administrative data Dr. Beck’s research interests lie broadly in psychiatric epidemiology and health services. In the 2010 – 2011 year she continued her research on health services for mental disorders, and for comorbidities between mental and general medical (physical) disorders, (e.g. for cardiac conditions in individuals with substance use disorders). In addition, she focused more on research into the quality of administrative data, and is investigating interventions to improve physician chart documentation.

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Tanya Beran, BA, MSc, PhD, RPsych Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: medical education, measurement, evaluation, childhood development Dr. Beran has published studies on child health, evaluation, assessment, and measurement. Specific recent projects include research in teaching evaluation; assessment of professional competencies; neonatal simulation; career identity development and study strategies in clerkship; and workforce and psychological characteristics of international medical graduates. Her research has recently branched into the area of developmental robotics by examining how robotic models can be applied to understanding children’s behaviors in the context of medicine. New research has also been started in the area of conformity theory to determine how students’ learning is impacted by their peers. Andrew Bulloch, MA, PhD Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences, Psychiatry and

Physiology and Pharmacology RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: depressive disorders, epidemiology, health survey, pharmacoepidemiology Dr. Bulloch’s research is in the fields of psychiatric epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology. In psychiatric epidemiology, he is focusing on the risk factors for major depression and bipolar disorders. He employs data from provincial and national mental health surveys. However, existing mental health surveys are retrospective and suffer greatly from recall bias. To overcome this serious issue, he is collaborating on a plan for a novel prospective survey of major depression in the Calgary population in “real time” using multiple contact modalities. HBI has funded a pilot study and recently Alberta Addiction and Mental Health Research Partnership Program has funded a 3 year grant to extend this to the population of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferers in Southern Alberta. They plan to use the results of these two initial studies in a major application in due course for survey of the general population of Calgary.

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Bonnie Buntain, BSc, MSc, DVM, DABVP, DACVPM Assistant Dean, Government and International Relations, Faculty of Veterinary

Medicine Professor, Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary

Medicine and Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: food safety, public health policies, zoonotic diseases, global health, ecohealth, one health, human-animal bond, syndemics, transdisciplinary, interprofessional Dr. Buntain’s general research interests include global animal and human health, the One Health approach to transdisciplinary research, food safety, security and defense, and joint education of health sciences and veterinary medicine students in field conditions. She also has an interest in building capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa to address the interface of animal-human-ecosystem health and the related health equity challenges. She is specifically interested in developing interprofessional skills with students and faculty using the One Health approach. Her joint research grant proposals include climate change and animal health and its relationship to food security and safety in vulnerable indigenous cultures, and how food systems policies and programs may be improved with evidenced based research. Currently she is on a Community Health Sciences team that received UCI grant to study “Development of an innovative "How-To" model for international transdisciplinary health research and education initiatives.” Norman Campbell, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Medicine,

Physiology and Pharmacology, and Community Health Sciences HSFC-CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention & Control RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: hypertension, surveillance Dr. Campbell’s research activities include interventions to improve population prevention and control of hypertension.

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Ann Casebeer, BA, MPA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Site Director, Western Regional Training Centre (WRTC), Institute for Public Health

(IPH) RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health policy, organizational learning and systems change, knowledge exchange and use, applied research methods Dr. Casebeer’s primary research efforts involve longitudinal research on organizational learning and systems change within health and health care jurisdictions. She continues to be interested in healthy public policy as a mechanism for health gain and in enlarging the voice of the public in health decision-making processes, as well as the development and use of learning networks for enhanced system capacity and responsiveness. She provides health policy, organizational change and qualitative/mixed methods contributions to a number of courses and active grants – the overarching focus of these efforts is to contribute to the improvement of health care system delivery and the enhancement of health within communities. Dr. Casebeer works extensively with Health and Society Students in the O’Brien BHSc Program, and, as Site Director for WRTC, provides leadership for graduate students concentrating on health system and policy research. Fiona M. Clement, BSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health technology assessment, health services research, health economic, decision analysis, economic evaluation, health-related quality of life, meta-analysis, systematic reviews Dr. Clement’s research interests include economic evaluation, health technology assessment, costing methodology and the drug reimbursement decision making process both internationally and within Canada.

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Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, MBBS, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, hypertension diabetes, epidemiology, health services research, administrative data, laboratory data Dr. Chowdhury’s research is in the area of chronic disease epidemiology and health services research. His research comprises descriptive and analytical studies including patient oriented outcomes research, prediction models, systematic review & meta-analysis, quality of life, and long-term risk projection. He utilizes computerized data sources including administrative, laboratory, and electronic medical record data for his research. Robert L. Cowie, MD, MSc, MB ChB FCP(SA) Professor, Division of Respirology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases, asthma, COPD, occupational lung disease Dr. Cowie’s research includes the study of the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the general population of Calgary, 40 years of age and older – the Canadian Obstructive Lung Disease (COLD) is the study of which Calgary was one of the five Canadian study centres. Dr. Cowie also reviews cases of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease, as well as ongoing review of cases of tuberculosis in Calgary with emphasis of role, if any, of vitamin D deficiency in the pattern of disease. He is also interested in the role of respiratory educators in the investigation and management of chronic cough.

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Susan Cran, EdD, MEd, BSW Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Graduate Student Advisor, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: professional identity and certification of disability services workforce, leadership, management, innovation, employment and vocational rehabilitation of adults with onset disabilities Dr. Susan Cran’s research activities include the investigation of professional identity of disability service professionals and the recognition that associations’ “discipline specific” scope of practice are too narrowly defined and does not meet the interdisciplinary nature of the work. Dr. Cran’s research interests also led to the creation of a leadership and innovation course that targets non-profit organizations engaging in innovative practices, recognizing the need for new leadership and management. As well, Dr. Cran is the Graduate Supervisor/Advisor of the Masters of Disability & Community Studies (MDCS) course based program ensuring student registration, course selection and completion of the program. Her responsibilities also include marketing and recruiting students for the MDCS, and coordinating the distributed learning format for the program. Gillian Currie, BComm, MA, MPhil, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health economics, stated preference methods, economic evaluation, child health Dr. Currie’s research is in the area of health economics. She works on the methods and application of economic evaluation primarily in the maternal, infant, child and youth content area. Within economic evaluation, her primary methodological focus is on the benefit side of economic evaluation, and the use of stated preference methods, such as contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments, to elicit preferences for health and health care. Her methodological research in preference measurement also includes its application on broader priority setting contexts.

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Warren Davidson, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, FCCP Assistant Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: airway inflammation, epidemiology, clinical outcomes Dr. Davidson’s research includes the effect of exercise on pulmonary and systemic inflammation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the effect of circadian variation on airway inflammation, the utility of induced sputum analysis for asthma management, assessment of airway inflammatory changes in elite cross-country skiers, and transition pathways for community asthma care. Deborah Dewey, BA, MA, MSc, PhD Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology Director, Behavioural Research Unit, Alberta Children’s Hospital RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: motor skills disorders, attention deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders, learning disorders, mental disorders diagnosed in childhood, mental health, family health, physical fitness, resilience, psychological Dr. Dewey’s research interests include the heritability and neurobiology of developmental coordination disorder, ADHD and learning disabilities in children and their families. In addition, she is investigating the neuropsychological outcomes in children exposed to adverse events in utero and perinatally; the impact of maternal nutrient status during pregnancy on maternal mental health and child development; psychosocial outcomes of children with chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes, autism, very low birth weight, developmental coordination disorder, cancer); stress in parents of children with chronic conditions (e.g. very low birth weight, neuromuscular disorders, autism); and physical activity in preschool aged children and their families.

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James A. Dickinson, MBBS, CCFP, PhD, FRACGP, FAFPHM(RACP) Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: family medicine, primary health services, prevention, screening, influenza, immunization, cancer epidemiology Dr. Dickinson continues to serve on the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, which entails literature synthesis to produce recommendations for primary care providers. He continued the development of a spreadsheet providing guidance for primary care clinicians on preventive services (http://www.ucalgary.ca/familymedicine/preventive). The TARRANT influenza surveillance network in Alberta continued and measured the pandemic H1N1 outbreak. They continued as part of the national SAVIOUR network, assessing vaccine effectiveness and undertook surveys of Family Physicians preparedness and attitudes to working in epidemic situations. Elijah Dixon, MD, BSc, MSc(Epi), FRCSC, FACS Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery, Oncology and Community Health Sciences CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: outcomes, health services research, patient safety, health technology assessment, quality improvement, clinical trials, general surgery Dr. Dixon’s research interests include the development of quality indicators of care for patients undergoing hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer. He conducts clinical research, particularly in the area of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery. He uses administrative data to investigate issues such as disparities in access to care and surgical outcomes in different patient populations. He is also interested in using administrative data to measure wait times for cancer surgery in Canada.

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Christopher (Chip) J. Doig, MD, MSC, FRCPC Professor and Head, Department of Community Health Sciences Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: sepsis, sepsis syndrome, multiple organ failure, critical care, critical illness, tissue and organ procurement, medical ethics Dr. Doig’s research is in the area of validation of scoring systems for organ dysfunction and acute lung injury in the Intensive Care Unit. He is also interested in ethics and outcome for organ donations, and outcome assessment in trauma. Tyrone Donnon, BSC, Bed, Med, PHD Associate Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences,

and Medical Education and Research Unit RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: medical education, psychometrics, program assessment, resiliency development, program evaluation, learning theory, instructional methods, curriculum development Dr. Donnon’s research includes medical education, learning theory and quantitative research methods as it pertains to measurement and evaluation in post-secondary education. In addition, he has a range of experience in curriculum development, instructional methods, psychometrics, questionnaire development, and program assessment and evaluation. Current RESEARCH INTERESTS have focus on the predictive validity of medical school admission criteria, assessment in preclinical and clinical medical education, use of simulation to measure clinical and performance competencies, interprofessional patient-centred education, and the development of psychometric measures of students’ approaches to learning, non-cognitive attributes and resiliency factors.

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Joseph C. Dort, BSc, MSc, MD, CCFP, FRCSC, FACS Professor, Departments of Surgery, Clinical Neurosciences, Oncology and

Community Health Sciences Ohlson Family Professor of Head and Neck Surgery Director, Ohlson Research Initiative RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: head and neck oncology, clinical outcomes, tumour biomarkers, molecular epidemiology Dr. Dort’s research program is focused on determining clinical outcomes in patients with head and neck cancer. Using a prospectively collected cohort (the Ohlson cohort) he follows patients longitudinally in order to better understand clinical outcomes in the context of 3 broad themes: the impact and influence of tumour biology as an independent predictor of clinical outcome; understanding the role of image processing as a tool for staging and prognostication in patients with head and neck cancer; and, understanding the utility and application of bioinformatics in head and neck cancer outcomes research. His program functions within the Ohlson Research Initiative (www.ohlsonresearch.ca) and his primary affiliation is with the Department of Surgery and the Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI). Steven M. Edworthy, BSc, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key words: medical informatics, data stewardship, rheumatology, electronic health record Dr. Edworthy’s research area of interest is in electronic medical records and medical informatics. This includes formulation of policy regarding stewardship of medical records. He is also involved in the application of clinical epidemiology to large collections of patient information using statistical and clinical reasoning. Dr. Edworthy’s work in the modeling of ambulatory clinic scheduling demonstrates the convergence of medical information systems with statistical approaches. His interests in the use of clinical information systems to prognosticate on the outcomes of specific disease sets, including SLE, and rheumatoid arthritis provide insights into the use of valid and reliable clinical data sets.

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Misha Eliasziw, BSc, MSc, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences, Oncology

and Clinical Neurosciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: interobserver variation, reliability of results, regression analysis, biostatistics, epidemiologic methods, research design, data interpretation, clinical trials, cerebrovascular disease, cancer biomarkers Dr. Eliasziw is a biostatistician who seeks out opportunities to apply mathematical and probabilistic methods to solve clinical and public health questions through numb3rs. Her areas of application include stroke diagnosis and prevention of disability, deep brain stimulation for prevention of seizures in epilepsy patients, an evaluation of minocycline in multiple sclerosis, the relationship between maternal nutritional intake during pregnancy and child mental health, and the diagnostic accuracy of oncologic biomarkers in predicting patient outcomes. Although methods for measuring interobserver agreement and reliability still remain her theoretical interests, she has recently expanded her interests to clinical prediction models and estimating risk ratios from binomial regression models. Carolyn A. Emery, BSc, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Departments of Pediatrics and

Community Health Sciences Professorship in Paediatric Rehabilitation AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: injury prevention, epidemiology, athletic injury, child and adolescent Dr. Emery’s research is ongoing regarding injury prevention in youth ice hockey, evaluation of preseason evaluation and neuromuscular training programs in youth soccer and junior high school, and implications regarding the reduction of injury and subsequent decreased levels of physical activity and risk of early osteoarthritis. In 2011, the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre (Co-Chairs Carolyn Emery and Willem Meeuwisse) continues to be recognized internationally as one of the four Centres of Excellence in Research in Injury Prevention in Sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Completion and publication of a National multicentre cohort study of injuries related to body checking in youth ice hockey in JAMA and CMAJ were followed by a great deal of media attention and subsequent policy change related to body checking regulations nationally in the United States and some Canadian provinces. Prospective evaluation of policy changes in youth ice hockey is ongoing.

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J. C. Herbert Emery, BA, MA, PhD Professor, Departments of Economics and Community Health Sciences Svare Professor in Health Economics RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health economics, health policy, health care finance Dr. Emery is a research coordinator for the Health Policy paper series for the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. As part of that series and a longer running research program, he has been publishing work on the transition from voluntary private health insurance to universal state provided health insurance and sustainability of Canada’s single payer health care systems. In addition, Dr. Emery has been conducting research on the impact of the introduction of public pensions on elderly mortality in Canada. John M. Esdaile, BSc, MD, MPH Adjunct Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: rheumatology, epidemiology, statistics, randomized trials, multivariate analyses, outcome assessment, repeated measures, health status, health economics, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis Dr. Esdaile’s research has focused on clinical epidemiologic approaches to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. For his principal focus on osteoarthritis, projects are underway on the potential role of the combination of specific activities and femoroacetabular impingement on the development of osteoarthritis of the hip, and on the progression of knee osteoarthritis at the population level.

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Derek V. Exner, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FHRS Professor, Departments of Cardiac Sciences, Medicine and Community Health Sciences Director, CON-ECT Clinical Coordinating Centre, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta Medical Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Program, Alberta Health Services Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials AI-HS Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: arrhythmias, clinical trials, defibrillators, epidemiology, pacemakers, quality of life, resynchronization therapy, statistical modeling, sudden death Dr. Exner’s research interests include identifying patients most likely to benefit from cardiac device therapies and optimizing therapeutic response. His research contributions have are in six general areas that include 1) identifying and quantifying risk factors for sudden death; 2) identifying and quantifying risk factors for heart failure progression; 3) optimizing outcomes in patient at risk for sudden death; 4) optimizing outcomes in patient at risk for heart failure progression; 5) evaluating preventive therapies; and 6) understanding the genesis of arrhythmias, particularly the relationship between remodeling in electrical substrate and mechanical structure. He utilizes clinical trials, particularly randomized trial, to assess each of these aspects. Thomas E Feasby, BSc(Med), MD, DSc, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: appropriateness, overuse, MRI, intravenous immunoglobulin, guillain-barre syndrome, neuromuscular disease Dr. Feasby’s research focuses on studies of the appropriateness and potential overuse of healthcare interventions. The most recent study showed that over half of MRI scans of the low back are either inappropriate or of uncertain value. The next study will examine lumbar spinal fusion in collaboration with Dr. Nathalie Jette and colleagues. Dr. Feasby is the Canadian Director for the International Guillain-Barre Outcome Study (IGOS), a study of the natural history of 1000 patients with GBS that aims to develop clinical and biomarker predictors of outcome and response to specific treatments.

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Gordon H. Fick, BSc, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: biostatistics, epidemiologic methods, research design, data interpretation Dr. Fick's research interests are in the development and assessment of biostatistical methodology and in the application of biostatistical methodology in collaboration with colleagues in epidemiology and other areas of health research. His recent collaborations have been in the areas of addiction, circadian rhythm surgery and ophthalmology. He has recently expanded his interests to the analysis of data from case-control studies and to the study of nonignorable missing data in clinical prediction models and to estimating risk ratios from binomial regression models. In addition he is engaged in biostatistical collaborations with a number of other researchers in the Faculty of Medicine. William A. Ghali, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Senior Scholar Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Health Services John A. Buchanan Chair in General Internal Medicine Scientific Director, Institute for Public Health RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services, quality of care, outcomes and processes of care, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, venous vascular disease, epidemiology, clinical epidemiology Dr. Ghali’s research is in the general area of health services research with a focus on quality of health care delivery for four inter-related conditions: cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, venous vascular disease, and diabetes. He conducts a combination of applied studies assessing care delivery for these conditions and methodological research relating to the assessment of quality of care and outcomes. In related research, he is also the lead investigator of a research and innovation initiative – ‘the Medical Ward of the 21ST Century’ – that has as its focus the development of innovations to improve the quality of health care delivery.

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Juliet R. Guichon, BA, MA, SJD Senior Associate, Office of Medical Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health, law and ethics Dr. Guichon’s research is in the area of law and ethics, consent, autonomy, assisted human reproduction, religion and healthcare, end of life. She specializes in areas of Health, Law and Ethics. Brent Hagel, BPE, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Professorship in Child Health and Wellness, Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: wounds and injuries, prevention and control, epidemiology, child, adolescent Dr. Hagel’s key research interest area is child and adolescent injury prevention, in particular, sport and recreational injuries. His research has focused on the evaluation of protective equipment effectiveness and the evaluation of policies related to injury preventio David A. Hanley, BA, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Departments of Medicine,

Oncology and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: epidemiology of osteoporosis, vitamin D and health, disorders of bone and mineral metabolism Dr. Hanley’s research includes examining the changes in skeletal structure with aging, using High Resolution Quantitative Computed Tomography of the distal radius and tibia, in the Calgary cohort of CaMOS. He has also been involved in industry sponsored clinical trials of new osteoporosis therapies.

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Jennifer M. Hatfield, BA Hons, MAppSci, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Associate Dean, Global Health and International Partnerships, Faculty of Medicine Director, Health and Society Major, O’Brien Centre for Bachelor of Health Sciences Advisor, Institute for Gender Research RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: global health, gender analysis, qualitative research methods, public health Dr. Hatfield’s research interests include gender research, developing research partnerships with institutions in low and middle income countries for the purposes of mutual capacity building and health research system strengthening; directing field school research in the Nogorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania; supervision of graduate student research projects on HIV/AIDS, unintended harms of health promotion initiatives, malaria, brucellosis, animal human health linkages, and prevalence of plagiocephaly in infants. Marilynne A. Hebert, BSc, MEd, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: international e-health and e-learning program evaluation, realist synthesis and evaluation Dr. Hebert’s research interests are in the evaluation of interventions in international health, particularly where e-health and e-learning technologies are employed. She is developing expertise in realist evaluation and synthesis, which are relatively new methodologies in this area and expected to contribute to understanding how programs work. As well, Dr. Hebert’s efforts have been focused on renewing and re-energizing the Graduate Education Program in the Department of Community Health Sciences. This has included identifying sets of core and specialist competencies, validating these competencies and developing an on-line portal to support graduate student success. Implementation and evaluation of these program changes will be a focus for the next few years.

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Kenton G. Hecker, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Clinical Diagnostics Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and Medical Education Research Unit RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: medical education, veterinary education, admissions, curriculum development, program evaluation, psychometrics Dr. Hecker’s research interests include assessment of selection criteria used for health professional schools, assessment of preclinical and clinical veterinary education, development of workplace assessment criteria for clinical competence, and health professional students attitudes to the rural environment. Brenda R Hemmelgarn, BScN, MN, PhD, MD, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services research, administrative data, laboratory data, kidney disease, chronic disease Dr Hemmelgarn’s primary research interests are in the areas of health services research and in particular the study of chronic kidney disease and its complications among high risk populations including the elderly and Aboriginal people. She utilizes computerized data sources including laboratory data and administrative health data to study the prevalence and progression of chronic kidney disease in high risk populations, as well as issued regarding access to care. She is also involved in several randomized controlled trials in the dialysis population.

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Elizabeth A. Henderson, BSc, RT, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Director, IPC Surveillance, Infection Prevention and Control, Alberta Health Services RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: healthcare epidemiology and infection control; surveillance, on-line learning, infection control professional and health care worker education, web-based surveillance Dr. Henderson’s research is in the area of infection control and healthcare epidemiology focusing on the use of different methodologies and technologies to enhance surveillance programs and on training Infection Control Professionals in Canada especially using on-line learning and educating health care workers on infection control practices. Her role as Director, IPC Surveillance for Alberta Health Services Infection Control Program involves three inter-related functions: (1) service [surveillance, outbreak investigations, consultation and planning]; (2) education, and (3) research. Her focus has been on investigating a variety of surveillance techniques used to monitoring infection control and infectious diseases and exploring innovative ways of using technology to streamline surveillance and increase data integrity including developing and implementing local, provincial and national web-based data systems. Michael D. Hill, BSC, MD, MSC, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Medicine, Radiology and

Community Health Sciences Associate Dean, Clinical Research, University of Calgary AI-HS Health Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: clinical epidemiology, neurology, cerebrovascular diseases, biochemistry, cerebral ischemia, stroke prevention, thrombolytic therapy, intracerebral hemorrhage, clinical trials Dr. Hill’s area of research interests includes clinical trials in stroke and the use of administrative data for stroke research and surveillance. He has participated in multiple clinical trials, leads the Calgary Stroke Program Clinical Trials Group and is leading 4 large clinical trials as the PI, co-PI or Steering Committee member. He has made contributions to the understanding of acute stroke thrombolytic treatment that has helped patients worldwide heal from the devastation of stroke-related brain injury. He has begun fundamental work on stroke surveillance using administrative data to monitor stroke rates and stroke outcomes.

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Robert Hilsden, MSc, PhD, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences Director of Research, Forzani and MacPhail Colon Cancer Screening Centre,

Alberta Health Services AI-HS Health Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: mass screening, colorectal cancer, health services research, biomarkers Dr. Hilsden conducts clinical and health services research that focuses on population-based screening for colorectal cancer. Ongoing projects include outcomes of screening colonoscopy, improving population uptake of colorectal cancer screening, clinical trials of bowel preparations for colonoscopy and evaluation of novel non-invasive screening tests. David B. Hogan, MD, FACP, FRCPC Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Departments of Medicine, Clinical Neurosciences and

Community Health Sciences Brenda Strafford Chair in Geriatric Medicine RESEARCH INTERESTS AHD ACTIVITIES Key Words: geriatrics, dementia, health services for the aged, drug therapy Dr. Hogan has been heavily involved in the pending launch of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. He has continued to collaborate with Dr. Colleen Maxwell in her studies (i.e. assisted living, the neurocognitive and psychological consequences of coronary revascularization procedures) while developing working relationships with Dr. Eric Smith on cognitive impairment registry, in the study of vascular function in cerebral small vessel disease, as well as Dr. Marc Poulin on the effects of regular exercise on cerebrovascular reserve.

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Gwendolyn L. Hollaar, BSC, MD, FRCSC, MPH Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: global health, community based medical education, international surgery Dr. Hollaar’s research interests include community based medical education activities in Lao PDR where she has been working for the past 8 years supporting Lao faculty in developing and improving a family/community medicine postgraduate training program. She is also interested in understanding and addressing the difficulties in maintaining effective health personnel in rural and remote regions, particularly in low-income countries. She is interested in studying common surgical problems in low-income countries, developing general physician competency to address these needs, and assessing resources to facilitate this care. Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc, BSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Training Program RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: geriatrics, quality improvement, knowledge translation, clinical informatics Dr. Holroyd-Leduc’s research interests include using knowledge translation and clinical informatics to improve the care of older patients. Specifically, in the past year Dr. Holroyd-Leduc has been working on several projects evaluating the implementation of evidence-based clinical decision support tools on the prevention of delirium and other adverse health outcomes among hospitalized frail older adults. She also recently received peer-reviewed grants to develop and evaluate a web-based portal designed to help older community dwelling adults self-manage several common chronic health issues. This portal incorporates validated evidence-based self-management tools that Dr Holroyd-Leduc and her co-investigators developed. Dr Holroyd-Leduc has co-authored several systematic reviews in the areas of geriatric medicine and clinical informatics. She has been collaborating with colleagues from within the Depts. of Medicine and CHS, as well as from other institutions, where she contributes expertise in the fields of knowledge translation and clinical informatics.

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E. Anne Hughson, PhD, R.Psych, MSc, BA Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Community Rehabilitation Disability Studies Program Director, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: disability studies, program evaluation, community-based participatory research, social movements and advocacy, leadership development, inclusive practices, community service innovation, mental health and developmental disability, inclusive post secondary education, parents with disabilities, violence and women with disabilities Dr. Hughson is a co-applicant in the Community-University Research Alliances (CURA), Living Archives of Eugenics in Western Canada, and University of Alberta is the chief university. Living Archives goals over the next five years are to identify and develop resources on the history of eugenics in Western Canada; engage scholars, community organizations and members of the public in discussions about aspects of the past that can inform current practices and policies of the qualitative research interviews related to “defiant” mothers; and, reviewing post eugenics practicum. She is leading the research on reviewing literature on post-eugenics and collecting interviews of the experiences of ‘defiant mothers’. As Editor of the International Journal of Disability, Community and Rehabilitation, Dr. Hughson publishes papers of research and critical analyses of issues at the intersection of disability, community and rehabilitation. She also conducts evaluation research of Alberta advocacy organization projects, implementing processes to increase community capacity for inclusion in recreation and social activities. Matthew James, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services research, epidemiology, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease. Dr. James’ research focuses on clinical epidemiology and health services research focusing on acute kidney injury, progression of chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease. His methodological interests include optimizing use of health data, prediction modeling, use of propensity-score methods, and systematic review/meta-analysis.

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Nathalie Jetté, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community

Health Sciences Tier II Canada Research Chair in Neurological Population Health and Health Services

Research AI-HS Population Health Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: epilepsy, neurological conditions, health services research, appropriateness of care, access to care, comorbidities, population health, surveillance Dr. Jetté’s research program consists of a comprehensive health services and population health research program in epilepsy and other neurological conditions, using primarily national health surveys and administrative databases. The program consists of four key elements: (1) surveillance; (2) appropriateness of care and access to care; (3) health outcomes and (4) comorbidities. She holds a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Neurological Population Health and Health Services Research (2010-2015) and an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Population Health Investigator Award (2008-2015). She was also the recipient of a CIHR new investigator award (2008-2013; declined in 2010). Charlotte A. Jones, BSc, MSc, PhD, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Departments of

Medicine and Community Health Sciences Director, Hypertension and Cholesterol Centre, Alberta Health Services Medical Director, LIBIN Center of Excellence in Hypertension Prevention and Control (Resigned position on June 30, 2012) RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: community, participatory, disparities Dr. Jones’ research interests are in the area of community-based participatory research aimed at reducing cardiovascular risk disparities among marginalized or vulnerable populations. She is also interested in lifestyle factors and cancer risk.

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Bonnie J. Kaplan, BA, MA, PhD, CPsych Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Research Psychologist, Behavioural Research Unit, Alberta Children’s Hospital RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: nutrition, nutrition therapy, mental disorders Dr. Kaplan’s research interests include the relationship between nutrition and brain development/brain function. Her research falls into these two categories: studying nutrition in relationship to brain development involves the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition study (www.apronstudy.ca), and studying nutrition in relation to brain function involves studying broad spectrum micronutrient treatment of mental illness. Gilaad Kaplan, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: inflammatory bowel diseases; environmental health; air pollution; gene-environment interactions Dr. Kaplan is a Gastroenterologist who has devoted his clinical and research career to studying the causes of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and improving the care of his IBD patients. The overarching theme of his research program is to explore the environmental factors that affect the development and the prognosis of gastrointestinal diseases such as IBD. Specifically, he studies how environmental air pollutants influence gastrointestinal diseases such as IBD and appendicitis. He is also a co-leader of the Alberta IBD Consortium, which is dedicated at understanding how gene-environment-microbe interactions result in the development of IBD. Aliya Kassam, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Medical Education and Research Unit and Post Graduate Medical Education RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: medical education, assessment, quality improvement, patient satisfaction Dr. Kassam’s research interests include post graduate medical education assessment, quality improvement and patient satisfaction. Dr. Kassam is particularly interested in multi-source feedback for residents, person-centered care and the impact of cultural beliefs on clinical practice.

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James D. Kellner, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics Professor, Departments of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases and

Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: streptococcus pneumoniae, pneumococcus, heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, meningitis, pneumonia, otitis media Dr. Kellner’s research activities include: (1) Epidemiologic trends and clinical observations in S. pneumoniae infections, (2) Vaccine design and implementation (www.ahfmr.ab.ca/press/2008-01-15.php); and (3) Collaborative research related to other vaccine preventable diseases: e.g., evaluation of Meningococcal C Conjugate vaccine programs in Canadian children (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00936962) , influenza vaccine research (www.pcirn.ca). Kathryn M. King-Shier, BScN, RN, MN, PhD Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: cardiac care, ethnic Dr. King’s research interests include health care access and services in multi-ethnic populations, using multi-methods approaches.

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Bonnie Lashewicz, BEd, MEd, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies RESEARCH INTERESTS Key words: aging, disabled persons, siblings, caregivers, vulnerable populations Dr. Lashewicz is conducting research about the capacities and complexities of caregiving families providing support to people with disabilities, mental health issues and/or chronic conditions. She is especially interested in the nature and potential of support provided by adult siblings. Much of our understanding of families, including caregiving that occurs within families, has been built on the study of relationships between generations (parent-child) rather than within generations (sibling). Adult sibling relationships, being at once obligatory and voluntary, provide a valuable framework for viewing support within families as a resource that is vital, yet not to be assumed as automatically forthcoming. Jocelyn M. Lockyer, MHA, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development,

Faculty of Medicine RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: continuing medical education, physician assessment, physician learning, needs assessment Dr. Lockyer’s research interests include physician learning and assessment with particular reference to multi source feedback (360 – degree evaluation) for assessment, the short course as an educational intervention, self assessment and physician transitions throughout clinical practice and life. Abhay Lodha, MBBS, MSc Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: perinatal epidemiology; newborns; chronic lung disease; health outcomes Dr Lodha’s research is in the area of perinatal epidemiology; newborns; chronic lung disease; health outcomes, including long term neurodevelopmental outcomes.

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Diane Lorenzetti, BA, MLS Research Librarian, Institute for Public Health and Institute for Health Economics Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: systematic reviews, meta analysis, education, databases bibliographic Dr. Lorenzetti’s research activities focus on supporting systematic reviews and other literature review-based and information-based research activities within the Department. Braden J. Manns, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences Fellow, Institute of Health Economics AI-HS Health Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: economic evaluation, health economics, clinical trials Dr. Manns’ research interests include the practical application and methodological aspects of economic evaluation, measurement of health outcomes (including HRQOL), and measurement of health care costs. He has performed economic evaluations in several areas of medicine including the use of activated protein C for sepsis patients, the use of drug eluting stents in heart disease patients, as well as a study examining the cost effectiveness of different hemoglobin targets in hemodialysis patients. He is involved in graduate education, teaching a graduate course entitled "Decision analysis in Health Care Economic Evaluation". He applies this knowledge in practice, recently completing a term as the Chair of the Canadian Expert Drug Advisory Committee (CEDAC). CEDAC is the single National process in Canada that undertakes to review and provide listing recommendations for new drugs to participating provincial drug benefit plans.

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Nancy Marlett, PhD, MSc Associate Professor, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies and

Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health capacity, salutogenisis, rural health capacity, first responders, rural emergency care, health collaborative research, open access, action publishing, seniors as researchers Dr. Marlett’s research is supported by the University of Calgary press and various funders to research Open Access / Action Publishing to engage groups of seniors in learning about research, applying for research grants, conducting research and submitting results for peer reviewed online publication. Implications for knowledge transfer and patient engagement are also areas of interest. Action research related to first response in rural emergencies. This is an ongoing project with fire chiefs, rural mayors and 911 dispatch involving analysis of dispatch data, messaging and coordination of response to prepare risk management reports and supporting documents from local and provincial action research sessions. Deborah A. Marshall, BSc, MHSA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Director, Health Technology Assessment, Alberta Bone Joint Health Institute Tier II Canada Research Chair in Health Services and Systems Research RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: patient preferences, conjoint analysis, health services research, technology assessment, quality indicators, health care, breast neoplasms, arthroplasty, hip replacement, decision modeling, health policy, operations research modeling, personalized medicine Dr. Marshall’s research interests include economic evaluation of health care programmes using decision analysis methodologies, particularly testing and treatment interventions in personalized medicine, methods for measuring patient preferences in the evaluation of medical interventions, and health technology assessment, particularly health system evaluation using operations research methods such as system dynamics modeling in musculoskeletal disease and cancer.

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Kerry McBrien, BASc, MPH, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services research, health economics in chronic disease Dr. McBien’s research is in the area of health services and health economics in chronic disease; use of secondary data sources (admin data, lab data, CPSSN data, chart data); systematic review and meta-analysis: patient navigators (an intervention aimed at assisting patients to get the right care at the right time) in chronic disease. Lynn McIntyre, MD, MHSc, FRCPC Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences CIHR Chair in Gender and Health RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: hunger and food insecurity, women's health, global health, aboriginal health Dr. McIntyre’s research is focused on hunger and food insecurity issues both domestically and in lower and middle income settings. She is particularly interested in women and uses both quantitative and qualitative means to address food insecurity and the food provisioning experience. Lindsay McLaren, BA, MA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: population health, socioeconomic inequalities in health, obesity, survey research Dr. McLaren’s research interests include population-based research on the social determinants of body weight and obesity. She is also interested in population health interventions including implications for social inequalities in health.

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John D. McLennan, BMedSc, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics, Psychiatry and

Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: child, health services, evidence-based medicine, mental disorders Dr. McLennan’s primary interest is in identifying how society is trying to improve the outcomes of vulnerable children and to what effect. He has a particular interest in issues related to the use of evidence-based strategies in “real-world” settings, or the lack-there-of. Recent work has included examining service utilization patterns of children demonstrating aggressive behavior in school settings, evaluating child and family trajectories within a respite service, and tracking health and development of young children at nutritional risk. Laura McLeod, BSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Coordinator, Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Community Health

Sciences (to June 30, 2012) Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: environmental health Dr McLeod’s research interests are driven by her position as a Medical Officer of Health in AHS, where her primary role is as a consultant to the province wide Environmental Public Health program, and as the lead for the Environmental Carcinogens program. As such she is no longer directly engaged in research personally but rather as part of teams. As the co-lead of the IPH Environmental Health Research group, her role is linking U of C researchers to government and other agencies in the community to generate ideas and opportunities for collaborative research.

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Willem H. Meeuwisse, BA, MD, MPE, PhD Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: sport injury prevention Dr. Meeuwisse’s research focuses on sport injury epidemiology. Project areas include surveillance, risk factor assessment and prevention program development and implementation. These activities are currently being carried out across as spectrum from recreational to elite sport, with a focus on child and adolescent injury. Related areas of interest include sport concussion. Richard Musto, MD, FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: population and public health, community medicine, residency training, health promotion, injury control, health services, Aboriginal health, health equity Dr. Musto’s interest in research has primarily been to support its application to health services. To that end, he has participated as co-investigator and decision maker partner on a number of studies. He continues as a member of the executive committee of the Institute for Public Health, and continues as a member of its executive committee. Specific topics of interest include health promotion methodologies, injury control, Aboriginal health and health equities. Robert P. Myers, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Clinical Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: epidemiology, health services research in chronic liver disease. Dr. Myers’ research is in the area of epidemiology and health services research in chronic liver disease utilizing administrative data, noninvasive assessment tools for the evaluation of liver fibrosis.

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Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, BSc, MSc, PhD, PStat Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: biostatistics, statistical methods, applied statistics, network analysis Dr. Nettel-Aguirre’s research interests include data mining and statistical learning, biostatistics, shape analysis, injury prevention, and statistical methods for social network analysis. He is also interested in collaborative research with neonatology, nephrology and emergency clinical divisions, as well as population health interventions. Tom Noseworthy, CM, MD, MSc, MPH, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, CHE Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: waiting times, access to scheduled services Dr. Noseworthy's research work deals with two topic areas in health services research: access to scheduled services, including but not limited to appropriateness, patient expectations, operations research in queue management and waiting time management strategies; and, health technology reassessment and reinvestment, including methodologies, and practice and policy areas related to the optimal use of existing health technologies. Maeve O’Beirne, BSc, MSc, MD, PhD, CCFP, IBCLC Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences Clinician/Preceptor, UCMC Sheldon Chumir, University of Calgary Teaching Clinics Clinician/Preceptor, Low Risk Maternity Clinic, Alberta Health Services RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: patient safety, medical error, quality improvement, primary care, family medicine, low risk obstetrics Dr. O’Beirne’s research interests are in the areas of prenatal care and patient safety. She was the principal investigator of the recently completed Medical Safety in Community Practice (MSCP) program. The purpose of the MSCP Program was to identify strategies to improve patient safety and reduce incidents in community based primary care practice. She is currently co-investigator on STAIR, a program to examine safety issues in manipulative therapies and on a synthesis to document accreditation and quality improvement activities in primary care. She is the Chair of the Community Research Ethics Board of Alberta and in this role is part of the Pan Alberta Health REB Alignment Initiative to improve research ethics review in Alberta.

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Elizabeth Oddone-Paolucci, PhD Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences Associate Director of Research, Office of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: statistics, research methodology, medical education, child development, psychopathology, assessment and evaluation Dr. Oddone Paolucci’s research interests include the study and use of advanced statistical analyses and methodologies such as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Latent Variable Analysis (LVA), and Factor Analysis (FA). She has employed these and other methods, such as meta-analysis, to study the developmental trajectories in human health and psychopathology. She also has a strong research interest in cognitive and non-cognitive assessment and evaluation, as well as investigating the processes of decision-making, communication, and professionalism within the health practitioner model. Stacey Page, BSc, MSc, PhD Senior Research Associate, Office of Medical Bioethics Deputy Chair, Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: Ethics, professional ethics, bioethics, ethics research, alternative medicine, mental health Dr. Page’s role with the Office of Medical Bioethics comprises a blend of research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities relating to the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board. Areas of research interest include professional ethics and practice, mental health, and complementary and alternative medicine. Dr. Page sits on the Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board (alternate rep) and as the University of Calgary’s representative on Mount Royal University’s Human Research Ethics Board. She is the University Representative on the Mental Health and Addictions Ethics Committee, Alberta Health Services.

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Beth Parrott, BA (Psyc), MSc (Clinical Psychology/Community Rehabilitation) Instructor and Student Advisor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: children with special needs, autism, human service management, community leadership, practical experience Beth Parrott is the Undergraduate Coordinator and Student Advisor for the Community Rehabilitation and Disabilities Studies Program. The undergraduate program has approximately 220 students in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and on-line distance learners. She has developed and taught many in-class and on-line courses in the areas of reflective practice, autism spectrum disorders, practicums in community leadership and human service management, children with special needs and their families, and disability across the lifespan. Her responsibilities include admissions, block transfers, as well as marketing and recruiting students for the Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation (BCR) program. Scott B. Patten, BMedSc, MD, FRCPC, PhD Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry AI-HS Health Senior Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: mood disorders, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, epidemiological research methods, substance-induced mood disorder, mood disorders due to general medical conditions Dr. Patten’s research interests include the epidemiology of mood disorders, particularly major depressive disorder. The epidemiology of this condition has traditionally been described using cross-sectional methodologies the literature has therefore emphasized prevalence. However, the prevalence of this condition is the final result of a variety of different parameters (incidence, remission, mortality and recurrence) that have not been examined in detail. Dr. Patten’s research has the goal of estimating these parameters and their determinants, as well as seeking now methods to integrate the resulting information into a more comprehensive description of the epidemiology of the condition.

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Sachin R. Pendharkar, BASc, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCCP Assistant Professor, Adult Respirology and Sleep Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Keywords: Patient Access, Operations Research, Patient Flow, Health System Evaluation, Process Improvement, Quality Improvement Dr. Pendharkar’s research focuses on the application of the principles of operations management to healthcare settings. Particular aspects of operations management include demand and capacity matching, patient flow simulation, scheduling and the use of novel clinical pathways to improve access. Much of my research in this regard relates to health services delivery for respiratory diseases and sleep disorders. Tamara Pringsheim, BSc, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: movement disorders, antipsychotic medications, disruptive behavior disorders Dr. Pringsheim’s research is in the area of movement disorders; antipsychotic medications; disruptive behavior disorders and knowledge translation Hude Quan, MCH MPH, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services research, quality of care, surveillance, ethnicity, administrative data, epidemiology Dr. Quan’s research activities include health services research methodology, chronic disease surveillance and ethnicity-related health services research. Methodological research focuses on the structure, quality and analysis of large administrative and electronic health record databases for research purposes such as development and validation of ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 coding algorithms to define chronic disease, comorbidities, and patient safety indicators. Surveillance studies include Canada national hypertension surveillance using administrative data. Ethnicity-related research includes health services utilization, cardiac invasive procedures outcomes, health di

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Robert R.Quinn, BSc, PhD, MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: vascular access for hemodialysis, home dialysis therapies Dr. Quinn’s research is in the area of vascular access for hemodialysis; home dialysis therapies and research methodology. Doreen Rabi, BSc MSc MD, FRCPC Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cardiac Sciences and Community

Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sex and gender, drug efficacy and effectiveness, meta-analysis Dr. Rabi’s research interests include cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes, with a particulary interest in sex, gender social determinants of disease outcome. Dr. Rabi is an AIHS Population Health Investigator and her research program involves an examination of sex differences in the efficacy and effectiveness of cardiovascular medications. She is also an investigator on the GENESIS PRAXY study, a national cohort study that is examining sex specific determinants for the development and outcome of premature acute coronary syndromes. Pietro Ravani, PhD, MSc (Biostatistics), MD, FNCPS(I) Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, Departments of Medicine and Community

Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services research, computerized data sources, randomized clinical trials, administrative data, and kidney disease Dr. Ravani’s research interests include the designs of clinical trials and longitudinal studies, survival analytical methods, statistical methods for multiple and repeated events and multilevel modelling. He is also interested in the outcomes of vascular access for hemodialysis, diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease and the outcome of Chronic Kidney Disease.

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Melanie Rock, BA, MSW, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of

Veterinary Medicine Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: anthropology, ethnology, domestic animals, social environment, city planning, urban health Dr Rock's research interests include population health and health inequity vis-a-vis the diverse connections between people and animals. In conjunction with collaborators and trainees, she is investigating how small decisions, differences and experiences play out in ways that magnify. The team mainly uses pets as the vehicle to make this examination because half of Canadian households have pets, and that influences the entire social fabric. Many people construct their lives around pets. In doing so, people are learning and making decisions that influence human health without thinking that they are. Dog walking affects physical activity and mental health. Neighbours who would ordinarily pass each other on the street, now stop and chat because a dog insists on saying 'hello.' The public is used to thinking about pets as aids in health care. But pets are a way to explore pathways to population health and health equity, as well. Alaa Rostom, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology Departments of Medicine and

Community Health Sciences Medical Director, Forzani and MacPhail Colon Cancer Screening Centre RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: NSAIDs, COX-2 inhibitors, celiac disease, colorectal cancer, randomized controlled trials, systematic review and meta-analysis, outcomes research, clinical prediction rule Dr. Rostom’s interests include clinical Celiac Disease research, and he has been actively involved in conducting the technology review supporting the NIH consensus conference on Celiac Disease. He has conducted systematic reviews of the GI toxicity of NSAIDs, and COX-2 inhibitors, and has completed the Canadian Consensus Conference on the chronic use of these agents. Dr. Rostom has conducted systematic reviews for the USPSTF on the use of NSAIDS, COX-2 Inhibitors, and ASA for the prevention of colorectal cancer and adenomas. He has also conducted a prospective study on the yield of colonoscopy, as well as RCTs in the area of endoscopy. At the CCSC he has recently developed and validated a nurse reported patient comfort score for endoscopy, and they are conducting various studies related to screening outcomes and colonoscopy complications.

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Margaret L. Russell, BSc, MD, FRCPC, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: immunization, surveillance, epidemiology, public health, influenza, zoonotic transmission Dr. Russell’s research interests lie in the area of the prevention and control of vaccine-preventable diseases, (especially influenza) including principles of surveillance, the methodologies and measures relevant to prevention and control of these diseases the evaluation of vaccination programs, and examination of strategies to prevent and control these diseases, including ‘one health’ approaches to influenza control. She is co-author of the Lancet paper of the year for 2010 “Effect of Influenza Vaccination of Children on Infection Rates in Hutterite Communities: A Randomized Trial”, an award given on the basis of potential impact for public health practice. Current research includes examination of approaches to the measurement of vaccine coverage, transmission of influenza between pig farmers and their pigs, and aspects of school-based influenza vaccination programs. Susan Samuel, BSc (Life Sci), MSc, MD Assistant Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences Research Interests Key Words: pediatric nephrology transplantation, health services research Dr Samuel’s research is in the area of pediatric nephrology transplantation health services research computerized datasets.

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Chad Saunders, BSc, MBA, PhD Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Haskayne School of Business and

Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences eHealth Strategy and Innovation Research Lead, Ward of the 21st Century (W21C) Research and Innovation Lead, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre

(HiiTeC) RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: eHealth, knowledge translation, information systems, knowledge management systems, cross-disciplinary research, enterprise systems, technology diffusion and innovation, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, qualitative methods Dr. Saunders’ research interests focus on the management of technology and innovation within professional practice. In particular, this work considers the implications for design and innovation within a professional environment and the key entrepreneurial activities associated with the use of technology within these contexts. His professional experience and research interests span technology benchmarking, commercialization and the strategic deployment of technology to support collaborative research. Tolulope Sajobi, BSc, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: longitudinal data analysis, health-related quality of life, multivariate statistics, robust statistics, biostatistics, clinical trials, health services research Dr. Sajobi’s research program focuses on the development and application of biostatistical methods to solve clinical and health services research questions. His research program include the development of models for multivariate longitudinal data, analysis of quality of life and behavioral outcome in chronic disease populations, and application of robust statistical methods for non-normal health outcomes data. Some of his recent collaborations have spanned several areas of medical research including clinical neurosciences, internal medicine, orthopedics, psychiatry, and population health. He collaborates with clinicians and researchers on various research projects using statistical tools to extract valuable information from large datasets.

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Reg S. Sauve, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Paediatrics Director, Perinatal Follow-Up Program, Alberta Children's Hospital RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: preterm, outcomes, influenza, perinatal, growth, reproductive Dr Sauve’s research interests center around perinatal/reproductive outcomes. A major component relates to long term growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants born at <28 weeks gestation. He is involved in projects assessing the outcomes of infants born after maternal pandemic influenza, a national neonatal follow-up program network and infants who survive complex pediatric therapies or severe sepsis early in life. He is also involved in clinical trials related to varied levels of supplemental oxygen following discharge home and another related to neonatal caffeine therapy and outcomes at school age. Some of his work, done through the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, relate to infant mortality, maternal pregnancy complications and maternal birth experiences. He is also a participant in several systematic reviews. Cynthia H-T. Seow, MBBS, MSc, FRACP Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: inflammatory bowel disease, pharmacokinetics Dr. Seow; research is in the area of inflammatory bowel disease -Pharmacokinetics -IBD and pregnancy -systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

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Richard E. Scott, BSc, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences (to June 2013) Director, Office of Global e-Health Strategy Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Health Information, Faculty of Graduate Studies,

University of Victoria, British Columbia RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: e-Health, telehealth, global e-health, ‘glocal’ e-health, e-health policy, e-health strategy, inter-jurisdictional policy, developing countries, evaluation, outcomes, health outcomes, environmental e-health, e-waste, resource depletion, life cycle assessment Dr. Scott focuses his interests on examining the role of e-health* in the globalisation of healthcare, including aspects impacting the implementation and integration of e-health globally. His research program is directed towards inter-jurisdictional e-health policy, e-health strategy development, outcomes and evaluation, and a new area developed by him - environmental e-health. Dr. Scott promotes the application of ‘culturally sensitive and technologically appropriate’ e-health solutions in the international context, and is pursuing collaborative research with colleagues in Asian, Australasian, African, European, and Latin American and Caribbean countries. *e-Health combines four main components: telehealth, health informatics, e-learning, and e-commerce; it includes the use of any information and communications technology (ICT) to support health, healthcare, health education or health research. Ronald J. Sigal, BSc, MD, MPH, FRCPC Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Departments of Medicine, Cardiac Sciences and

Community Health Sciences Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology AI-HS Health Senior Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: exercise, diabetes mellitus, obesity, cardiovascular disease, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies Dr. Sigal’s current research focuses on clinical trials related to physical activity, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His research also includes randomized trials evaluating exercise interventions in people with or at risk of diabetes.

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Eric E. Smith, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Radiology and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Clinical Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: stroke, vascular cognitive impairment, performance measurement, neuroimaging Dr. Smith’s research is in the area of stroke, vascular cognitive impairment, stroke quality of care and performance measurement and neuroimaging. Frank W. Stahnisch, MD, MSc Associate Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and

History, Faculty of Arts AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care,

Faculty of Medicine Coordinator, History and Philosophy of Science Program, Faculty of Arts RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: history of medicine, health care, neuroscience, psychiatry, 18th to 21st century, public mental health (history), philosophy (medical) Dr. Stahnisch’s research focuses on the development of the interdisciplinary dimension in modern neuroscience as well as international and transcultural aspects of neurology, psychiatry, and brain research. He is involved with research in the history and philosophy of the modern neurosciences which traces some undercurrent assumptions about the mind-brain relationship and continuing leitmotifs of neuroscientific endeavors in their wider cultural contexts. Antonia S. Stang, MDCM, MBA, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: pediatrics, emergency medicine, quality improvement, patient safety, health services research Dr Stang’s research interests are in pediatric health services. Her current work is focused on improving the quality of emergency department care for children through the development of quality indicators. She is also interested in optimizing child health outcomes through the use of best evidence and improving emergency department safety, wait times and efficiency.

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Henry Thomas Stelfox, BMSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and

Community Health Sciences AI-HS Population Health Investigator CIHR New Investigator RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health services research, critical care medicine, health policy, injury control, outcomes research, trauma, clinical epidemiology, patient safety, knowledge translation, quality of care Dr. Stelfox’s research program focuses on the application of health services research methods to evaluate and improve the quality of health care delivery to critically ill patients. His research activities include developing quality indicators in trauma care; evaluating the structure and transfer of knowledge in hospitalized patients; and evaluating new health care technologies, risk stratification tools and methods of health service delivery. Craig Stephen, DVM PhD Professor, Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and

Department of Community Health Sciences Clinical Professor School of Population and Public Health (UBC) RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: epidemiology, public health, emerging infectious diseases, global health, ecohealth Dr. Stephen’s research activities in the past year focuses on 4 main themes; (1) developing veterinary public health capacity in developing nation settings; (2) social learning for aquatic food sustainability for poverty reduction; (3) novel methods for emerging infectious disease surveillance and (4) environmental health impact of aquatic pathogens. Lloyd R. Sutherland, BA, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC, FACP Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Medicine RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health technology assessment, epidemiology of gastrointestinal disease Dr. Sutherland’s current area of research is in health technology assessment. His recent health technology assessment reviews include radioembolization therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma and a review of elastography compared to liver biopsy. His other area of interest is in reassessment and reinvestment of health technology.

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Wilfreda E. Thurston, BA, MSc, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Professor, Department of Ecosystems and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Advisor, Institute for Gender Research, University of Calgary Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Faculty of Kinesiology Adjunct Professor, Centre for Health Promotion Studies, University of Alberta RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: population health, health promotion, public participation, Aboriginal, gender, evaluation, social epidemiology, qualitative methods, quantitative methods Dr. Thurston’s research interests include overcoming health inequities and developing effective health promotion policy and other interventions. She is working on prevention of urban Aboriginal homelessness and provision of health services to the urban homeless. A four-province study of provision of housing services to homeless urban Aboriginal populations was completed. As part of a multidisciplinary team she is examining the role of culture in the health of residents in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. She is a member of the Networked Environments for Aboriginal Health Research - Southern Alberta project and developed the Aboriginal Population Health Research and Intervention Group of the IPH. She spearheaded a successful application to have the UofC join a national project on changing university cultures to promote community engaged scholarship. She is participating in a longitudinal study of the health of women who have left domestic violence and is also investigating the relationship of domestic violence and early childhood dental caries. Suzanne Tough, BSc, MSc, PhD Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences AI-HS Health Scholar RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: premature birth, infant/low birth weight, prenatal care, maternal welfare, child development, parenting, reproductive behaviour, assisted reproductive techniques, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder Dr. Tough’s research program focuses on improving the health and well-being of women during pregnancy to achieve optimal maternal, birth and early childhood outcomes. She currently leads an interdisciplinary team of researchers (Preterm Birth and Healthy Outcomes Team), funded by Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions, that is learning more about preventing preterm birth and supporting healthy birth outcomes by looking at the genetic, molecular, clinical, community and population health factors that contribute to preterm birth. She is also involved in research projects related to prenatal care, maternal mental health, and child development. The underlying aim of her research program is to optimize birth and childhood outcomes by creating evidence that informs the development of community and clinical programs and influences policy.

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Marja J. Verhoef, BA, MA, MSc, PhD Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Medicine Tier II Canada Research Chair in Complementary Medicine Adjunct Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway Affiliated Scientist at the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation,

Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo Associate Scientist, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research and

Evaluation Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: complementary and alternative medicine, cancer, methodology, medical education Dr. Verhoef’s research focuses on a wide range of psychosocial factors related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use in cancer, such as determinants of use, decision-making, communication, information needs and the integration of CAM into the conventional medical system. She is the PI of a large international study examining cancer patients’ pathways of treatment and care over time. She is also actively involved in identifying and developing appropriate methodological approaches to evaluating CAM interventions and systems. She chairs a national working group on integrating CAM in undergraduate medical education and is co-director of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM (IN-CAM) research. Claudio Violato, BSc, MA, PhD Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Director, Medical Education and Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine Coordinator, Graduate Program in Medical Education, Department of Medical Sciences Adjunct Professor, Division of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Education RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: medical education, multi-source feedback systems, psychometrics, learning and cognition, medical errors, adverse events Dr. Violato’s research includes the predictive validity of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) employing longitudinal data from several institutions including the Association of American Medical Colleges and meta-analyses. Additionally, Dr. Violato and his team are investigating the impact of various medical school curricula on student achievement and performance as well as a meta-analyses of medical errors and adverse events.

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Jian Li Wang, BMed, MMed, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: epidemiology, depression, major depression, anxiety, stigma, mental health literacy, mental disorders, workplace mental health, seniors, people with disabilities Dr. Wang’s research interests include major depression and anxiety disorders in the working population, seniors, and individuals with chronic health issues as well as disabilities. He is interested in uncovering the stigma’s associated with mental health issues in the workplaces as well as rural and urban communities. Samuel Wiebe, MD, MSc, FRCPC Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Paediatrics and Community

Health Sciences Head, Division of Neurology, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone Director of Clinical Research, Hotchkiss Brain Institute RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: health outcome assessment, randomized controlled trials, epilepsy, epidemiological studies Dr. Wiebe has three main research areas: 1) Health outcomes research in neurosciences, particularly the evaluation of medical and surgical interventions, assessment of clinically important change, quality of life, economic analyses and meta-analyses. He has addressed both methodological and clinical aspects of these research areas. 2) Health services research, particularly using linked administrative databases and health surveys, as well as determining the appropriateness and necessity of clinical interventions. 3) Expanding a successful Clinical Research Unit within the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. This unit support study design, data management, and data analysis for clinical research in the neurosciences.

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Gregor Wolbring, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences and

Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: ableism, disability studies, governance of science and technology, history Dr. Wolbring’s research activities includes ethics of energy, climate change and water; governance of human performance enhancement and science and technologies such as nanoscale sciences and technologies, cognitive science and synthetic biology; future of sport for athletes with and without disabilities on all performance levels and sport education; Ableism (favoritism for certain abilities and the negative judgment of missing ability); Transhumanization of health and health related concepts; identity change of the health and rehabilitation profession; telehealth and ehealth; privacy issues; disability studies. Stephen L. Wood, MD, FRCS(C), MSc Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and

Community Health Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Key Words: perinatal epidemiology, stillbirth, prematurity Dr. Wood’s research activities include the development of protocols for examining stillbirth rates in multiples, and examining perinatal mortality with a variation of the fetus at risk approach. He continues to work in collaboration with Dr. Donna Slater (basic science) on understanding prostaglandins role in the initiation of labor.

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