Vascular Researchers
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Sofia Ahmed
Professor
Lead, Libin Institute's Women's Cardiovascular Health Research Initiative
Research Areas: women's cardiovascular health, kidney disease
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Imtiaz Ali
Clinical Professor
Research Areas: Cardiac Surgery techniques, devices
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Faisal Alqoofi
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
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Todd Anderson
Professor
Director, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
Head, Department of Cardiac Sciences
Research Areas: Atherosclerosis; Endothelial dysfunction
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Jehangir Appoo
Clinical Associate Professor
Research areas: Chronic and Acute thoracic aortic pathology; Thoracic EndoVascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)
Calgary Thoracic Aortic Program website
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Hamid Banijamali
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research areas: Nuclear cardiology
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David Montero Barril
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Blood volume regulation; Blood volume-cardiac interactions; Heart failure/diabetes pathophysiology; Aerobic capacity
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Ellen D. Burgess
Dr. Ellen Burgess
Research areas: Hypertension and diabetes; informed consent in bioethics
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Sonia Butalia
Associate Professor
Research areas: diabetes, community health
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Norman Campbell
Professor
Research areas: hypertension
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Francois Charbonneau
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research area: Vascular biology
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Michael Curtis
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research areas: detection and treatment of angina and heart attacks
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Alun Edwards
Associate Professor
Research areas: Clinical trials - diabetes and vascular disease, health services innovation and research, health policy
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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
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Richard Frayne
Professor
Associate member
Research areas: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; MRI; Vascular Disease
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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
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David Goodhart
Clinical Associate Professor
Research areas:
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Alex Gregory
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Cardiovascular physiology; Aortic biomechanics; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Transfusion and coagulation; Enhanced recovery
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Doug Hamilton
Associate Professor
Research areas:
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Bryan Har
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research areas:
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Brenda Hemmelgarn
Professor
Head, Department of Community Health Sciences
Research areas: health services research
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Robert Herman
Professor
Research areas:
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Bobby Heydari
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research areas:
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Michael D Hill
Professor
Associate member
Research areas: Stroke
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Andrew Howarth
Assistant Professor
Research areas: imaging
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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
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Russell Douglas Hull
Professor
Research areas: thrombosis
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Debra L. Isaac
Clinical Professor
Research areas: physiology and management of congestive heart failure
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Matthew James
Assistant Professor
Research areas: nephrology
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Angela Kealey
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research areas: general cardiology, heart disease in women and heart disease in pregnancy
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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
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Kathryn M. King-Shier
Professor
Research areas: Cardiac surgery recovery; cardiac risk factor modification; health decision-making; secondary prevention
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Merril Knudtson
Professor
principal investigator, APPROACH
Research areas: long term outcomes for patients with coronary artery disease
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Alexander Leung
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Hypertension, diabetes, and cardiometabolic disorders
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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
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Jennifer M. MacRae
Assistant Professor
Research areas:
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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.
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Andrew McRae
Assistant Professor
Research Director, Emergency Medicine
Research areas: Acute coronary syndromes; Risk prediction; Cardiovascular outcomes; Cardiovascular emergencies
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Amy Metcalfe
Assistant Professor
Research areas: pregnancy, women's health
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Stefan Mustata
Clinical Associate Professor
Research areas:
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Rajkishan K. Narine
Research Associate Professor
Research areas:
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Kara Nerenberg
Assistant Professor
Chair, Women’s Heart and Brain Health Mid-Career (Heart and Stroke Foundation)
Research areas: hypertension during pregnancy
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Teresa M. Kieser
Associate Professor
Cardiac Surgeon
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Doreen Rabi
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sex and gender, drug efficacy and effectiveness, meta-analysis
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Pietro Ravani
Professor
Research areas:
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Nairne Scott-Douglas
Clinical Associate Professor
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Ronald J. Sigal
Professor
Research areas: clinical trials and cohort studies related to physical activity, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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Leslie Skeith
Assistant Professor
Research areas: pregnancy, venous thromboembolism, thrombophilia, obstetrical complications, medical education
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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.
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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
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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
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Jason Weatherald
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research areas: Wave intensity analysis, risk stratification, pulmonary arterial hypertension, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, clinical trials
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Ejaife Agbani
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor
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Darrell Belke
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Lead, Cardiovascular Physiology Core
Associate member
Research areas: Heart Failure; Mouse Models; Gene Therapy; Cardiac metabolism
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Andrew P Braun
Professor
Research areas: KCa channels; nitric oxide; calcium; myogenic tone; endothelium; smooth muscle; vasodilation
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Sarah J. Childs
Assistant Professor
Associate member
Research areas: Molecular and Development Genetics
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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
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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
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Yu Gui
Research Assistant Professor
Research areas:
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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).
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David C.W. Lau
Professor
Research areas: paracrine/autocrine, and/or endocrine factors regulating fat cell proliferation and differentiation in health and obesity
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Renaud Leguillette
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Dynamics of myosin smooth muscle filaments; Airway smooth muscle cells mechanics; Equine recurrent airway obstruction (or heaves)
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Jonathan Lytton
Professor
Head, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research area: control of calcium homeostasis; potassium-dependent Na/Ca-exchangers abundant in brain neurons
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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
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Edward O'Brien
Professor
Research areas: Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis; Biological Mechanisms of Vascular Repair
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Vaibhav Patel
Assistant Professor
Research areas: heart failure, cardiac remodeling, diabetic cardiovascular complications, vascular disease, aortic aneurysm, intercellular communications, perivascular adipose tissue
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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
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Jennifer Thompson
Assistant Professor
Research areas: vascular biology, fetal programming, adverse pregnancy, diabetes, obesity
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Pierre-Yves von der Weid
Associate Professor
Research areas: Lymphatic system, lymphatic vessels, inflammation, inflammatory mediators, prostaglandin, edema, smooth muscle, contraction, electrophysiology, membrane potential
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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.
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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
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John Tyberg
Emeritus Professor
Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Cardiac Sciences
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Julio Garcia Flores
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, Flow Hemodynamics, Experimental Models
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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
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Dana Olstad
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Nutrition, Policy, Dietary behaviours, Dietary patterns, Obesity, Socioeconomic inequities, Food environments, Health promotion, Public health, Mixed methods
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Aaron Phillips
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Neurostimulation, autonomic plasticity, autonomic control of cardiovascular function
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Marc J. Poulin
Professor
Research areas: cerebrovascular regulation, control of breathing, hypoxia, hypercapnia, obstructive sleep apnea, stroke, healthy aging, altitude acclimatization, exercise, nitric oxide