Vascular Researchers

Sofia Ahmed

Professor

Lead, Libin Institute's Women's Cardiovascular Health Research Initiative

Research Areas: women's cardiovascular health, kidney disease 

Imtiaz Ali

Clinical Professor

Research Areas: Cardiac Surgery techniques, devices

Faisal Alqoofi

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research Areas: 

Todd Anderson

Professor

Director, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta

Head, Department of Cardiac Sciences

Research Areas: Atherosclerosis; Endothelial dysfunction

Jehangir Appoo

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: Chronic and Acute thoracic aortic pathology; Thoracic EndoVascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)

Calgary Thoracic Aortic Program website

Hamid Banijamali

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: Nuclear cardiology

David Montero Barril

Assistant Professor 

Research areas: Blood volume regulation; Blood volume-cardiac interactions; Heart failure/diabetes pathophysiology; Aerobic capacity

Ellen D. Burgess

Dr. Ellen Burgess

Research areas: Hypertension and diabetes; informed consent in bioethics

Sonia Butalia

Associate Professor

Research areas: diabetes, community health

Norman Campbell

Professor

Research areas: hypertension

Francois Charbonneau

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research area: Vascular biology

Michael Curtis

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: detection and treatment of angina and heart attacks

Alun Edwards

Associate Professor

Research areas: Clinical trials - diabetes and vascular disease, health services innovation and research, health policy

Charlene Elliott

Associate Professor

Tier II CRC Food Marketing

Research areas: children and media studies; food marketing/branding intellectual property; Obesity and public health; sensorial communication; taste and communication

Richard Frayne

Professor

Associate member

Research areas: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; MRI; Vascular Disease

William Ghali

Professor

Scientific Director, O'Brien Institute for Public Health

Principal, University of Calgary World Helath Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Disease Classifications and Health Information

Research areas: health services quality of care outcomes and processes of care; cardiovascular disease; diabetes; venous vascular disease; epidemiology; clinical epidemiology

David Goodhart

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: 

Alex Gregory

Assistant Professor

Research areas: Cardiovascular physiology; Aortic biomechanics; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Transfusion and coagulation; Enhanced recovery
Neuro-protection and neurologic outcomes in aortic surgery; Perioperative clinical trials

Doug Hamilton

Associate Professor

Research areas: 

Bryan Har

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: 

Brenda Hemmelgarn

Professor

Head, Department of Community Health Sciences

Research areas: health services research

Robert Herman

Professor

Research areas: 

Bobby Heydari

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: 

Michael D Hill

Professor

Associate member

Research areas: Stroke

Andrew Howarth

Assistant Professor

Research areas: imaging 

Jonathan G Howlett

Clinical Professor

Research areas: clinical trial research in heart failure, end of life care, evaluation of health care delivery systems, healthcare outcomes, and knowledge translation

Russell Douglas Hull

Professor

Research areas: thrombosis

Debra L. Isaac

Clinical Professor

Research areas: physiology and management of congestive heart failure

Matthew James

Assistant Professor

Research areas: nephrology

Angela Kealey

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: general cardiology, heart disease in women and heart disease in pregnancy

William Kent

Clinical Assistant Professor

Director, Residency Training Program Cardiac Surgery; Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program; Co-Director, Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery Program 

Research areas: minimally invasive mitral; aortic valve surgery; aortic valve repair

Kathryn M. King-Shier

Professor

Research areas: Cardiac surgery recovery; cardiac risk factor modification; health decision-making; secondary prevention

Merril Knudtson

Professor

principal investigator, APPROACH 

Research areas: long term outcomes for patients with coronary artery disease

Alexander Leung

Assistant Professor

Research areas: Hypertension, diabetes, and cardiometabolic disorders

Carmen Lydell

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: novel clinical applications of CT and MRI for cardiac and aortic imaging; evaluating the long-term clinical impact of using MRI and CT imaging in the management of cardiovascular disease

Jennifer M. MacRae

Assistant Professor

Research areas: 

Braden J. Manns

Associate Professor

Research areas: practical application and methodological aspects of economic evaluation; measurement of health outcomes (including health-related quality of life (HRQOL); measurement of health care costs.

Andrew McRae

Assistant Professor

Research Director, Emergency Medicine

Research areas: Acute coronary syndromes; Risk prediction; Cardiovascular outcomes; Cardiovascular emergencies

Amy Metcalfe

Assistant Professor

Research areas: pregnancy, women's health

Stefan Mustata

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas: 

Rajkishan K. Narine

Research Associate Professor

Research areas: 

Kara Nerenberg

Assistant Professor

Chair, Women’s Heart and Brain Health Mid-Career (Heart and Stroke Foundation)

Research areas: hypertension during pregnancy

Teresa M. Kieser

Associate Professor

Cardiac Surgeon

Research areas: 

Doreen Rabi

Assistant Professor

Research areas: Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sex and gender, drug efficacy and effectiveness, meta-analysis

Pietro Ravani

Professor

Research areas: 

Nairne Scott-Douglas

Clinical Associate Professor

Research areas:

Ronald J. Sigal

Professor

Research areas: clinical trials and cohort studies related to physical activity, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Leslie Skeith

Assistant Professor

Research areas: pregnancy, venous thromboembolism, thrombophilia, obstetrical complications, medical education

James A. Stone

Clinical Professor Consultant Cardiologist

Research areas: cardiovascular disease prevention, the non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular risk stratification, cardiac rehabilitation, and chronic cardiovascular disease care.

Deepa Suryanarayan

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: Direct oral anticoagulants, Thrombosis, VTE, Cancer
Vascular Health & Disease - P2 Cardiovascular Health

Lee Anne Tibbles

Associate Professor

Associate Member

Research areas: immunology

Marcello Tonelli

Professor

Senior Associate Dean (Health Research); Associate Vice President (Health Research) Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Director, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Kidney Disease

Research areas: Chronic kidney disease and other noncommunicable diseases

Jason Weatherald

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research areas: Wave intensity analysis, risk stratification, pulmonary arterial hypertension, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, clinical trials

Ejaife Agbani

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Darrell Belke

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lead, Cardiovascular Physiology Core

Associate member

Research areas: Heart Failure; Mouse Models; Gene Therapy; Cardiac metabolism

Andrew P Braun

Professor

Research areas: KCa channels; nitric oxide; calcium; myogenic tone; endothelium; smooth muscle; vasodilation

Sarah J. Childs

Assistant Professor

Associate member

Research areas: Molecular and Development Genetics

William C. Cole

Professor 

Research areas: vascular smooth muscle, arterial resistance vessels, blood pressure regulation, potassium channels, transient receptor potential non-selective cation channels, membrane potential, patch clamp, calcium sensitization, myosin light chain phosphatase, intracellular calcium concentration

Elena Di Martino

Associate Professor

Research areas: Cardiovascular biomechanics, abdominal aortic aneurysms, mechanics of the left atrium, organ and tissue michanobiology: linking mechanics to cardiovascular pathologies, biosolid mechanics, biological tissue testing, medical imaging, multi-physics computational methods

Yu Gui

Research Assistant Professor

Research areas: 

Morley D. Hollenberg

Professor

Associate member

Research areas: signalling property of proteinases;  biosynthesis and actions of peptide hormones; molecular pharmacology and pathophysiology of receptor-mediated signaling by growth factors and G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). 

David C.W. Lau

Professor

Research areas: paracrine/autocrine, and/or endocrine factors regulating fat cell proliferation and differentiation in health and obesity

Renaud Leguillette

Assistant Professor

Research areas: Dynamics of myosin smooth muscle filaments; Airway smooth muscle cells mechanics; Equine recurrent airway obstruction (or heaves)

Jonathan Lytton

Professor

Head, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Research area: control of calcium homeostasis; potassium-dependent Na/Ca-exchangers abundant in brain neurons

Justin A. MacDonald

Professor

Research areas: protein structure & function; protein phosphorylation; protein kinases and phosphatases; inflammation and the NOD-like receptors; cardiovascular biology, smooth muscle

Edward O'Brien

Professor

Research areas: Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis; Biological Mechanisms of Vascular Repair

Vaibhav Patel

Assistant Professor

Research areas: heart failure, cardiac remodeling, diabetic cardiovascular complications, vascular disease, aortic aneurysm, intercellular communications, perivascular adipose tissue

Kristina (Tina) Rinker

Associate Professor

Departments of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Centre for Bioengineering Research and Education

Research areas: Role of fluid flow in changes in cellular gene expression and alteration of cell and tissue function 

Jennifer Thompson

Assistant Professor

Research areas: vascular biology, fetal programming, adverse pregnancy, diabetes, obesity

Pierre-Yves von der Weid

Associate Professor

Research areas: Lymphatic system, lymphatic vessels, inflammation, inflammatory mediators, prostaglandin, edema, smooth muscle, contraction, electrophysiology, membrane potential

Norman C.W. Wong

Professor

Research areas: Gene therapy to produce insulin in liver cells. We are interested in transplanting the human insulin gene into the liver and have it express but more importantly secrete mature insulin in response to glucose. * Regulation of apolipoprotein gene expression. We are interested in understanding the hormonal control of selected apolipoprotein genes that are expressed in the liver.

Xi-Long Zheng

Professor

Research areas: mechanisms underlying the proliferation and differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells with the aim of isolating and characterizeing the adult progenitor cells in the vasculature

John Tyberg

Emeritus Professor 

Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Cardiac Sciences

Julio Garcia Flores

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, Flow Hemodynamics, Experimental Models

Paul Fedak

Professor

Director, Marlene and Don Campbell Translational Research Laboratory

Research areas: epicardial infarct repair; human cardiac fibrosis; inflammation based remodelling; bicuspid aortic valve hemodynamics; adhesive enhanced sternal closure

Dana Olstad

Assistant Professor

Research areas: Nutrition, Policy, Dietary behaviours, Dietary patterns, Obesity, Socioeconomic inequities, Food environments, Health promotion, Public health, Mixed methods

Aaron Phillips

Assistant Professor

Research areas: Neurostimulation, autonomic plasticity, autonomic control of cardiovascular function

Marc J. Poulin

Professor

Research areas: cerebrovascular regulation, control of breathing, hypoxia, hypercapnia, obstructive sleep apnea, stroke, healthy aging, altitude acclimatization, exercise, nitric oxide