Potential Supervisors

The Department of Pediatrics has several faculty members who are looking to supervise postdoctoral fellows. If you would like to get in touch with these supervisors and express your interest in working with them, please contact pedspdf@ualberta.ca.  

potential postdoctoral fellow supervisors

Faculty Member Name

Division

Areas of Research

Additional Info

Dr. Marghalara Rashid

Hospital Medicine

  • Heath professions education
  • EDI
  • Culture competency interventions
  • Critical theory
  • Indigenous research methods

 

Dr. Joseph Ting

Neonatal-Perinatal Care (NICU)

  • Neonatal infection
  • Neonatal haemodynamics
  • Long-term outcomes of at-risk infants

 Dr. Ting's research includes big data analytics.

Dr. Andrea Haqq

Endocrinology/Metabolism

  • Childhood obesity
  • Genetics of obesity
  • Body composition
  • Energy expenditure

Dr. Matthew Henry

Cardiology

  • Novel cardiac imaging techniques

Dr. Lesley Mitchell

Immunology, Hematology, Oncology & Palliative Care (iHOPE)

  • Pediatric oncology
  • Pediatric hematology
Dr. Mitchell's laboratory focuses on clinically translational research aimed at improving outcomes in children with cancer

Dr. Karina Top

Infectious Diseases

  • Vaccine safety
  • Vaccination in immunocompromised patients
  • Vaccination in pregnancy
  • Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable disease
Dr. Top's research program uses primarily epidemiological and mixed methods approaches in national and international studies.

Dr. Heather Armstrong

Gastroenterology & Nutrition

  • Gastroenterology
  • Gut-brain axis
  • Microbiome
  • Nutrition
  • Mucosal immunity

Dr. Todd Alexander

Nephrology

  • Kidney stones
  • Tight junctions
  • Rare genetic diseases
Interested candidates must be available to supervise wet lab and clinical research projects.

 

For additional postdoctoral fellow opportunities within the Department of Pediatrics, please check the University of Alberta's Careers page.