Faculty Recognition
New Trail's "The elusive cure" featuring Jack Jhamandas, Department of Medicine, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, won silver in the platinum category for Best Articles of the Year from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Lee Green, Department of Family Medicine, was named Honorary Professor of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Yiwu, Zhejiang, Republic of China on December 7, 2018.
David Eisenstat, Department of Oncology, was appointed Alberta Node Leader for the Terry Fox Research Institute.
The Department of Pediatrics Annual Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2018 was awarded to the interdisciplinary pediatric nephrology team, comprised of Manjula Gowrishankar, Jennifer Meikle, Phyllis Theberge, Yi Yin Zhang, Mary Ann McMaster, Catherine Morgan, Todd Alexander, Abdullah Alabbas and Sara Rodriguez.
Timothy Chan, Department of Medicine, was awarded the department's Stewart Award for Wellbeing and Morale, staff level.
Amanda (Mandi) Newton, Department of Pediatrics, was awarded the Alberta Innovates Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Health System (PRIHS), for her project Implementing Innovative Models of Acute Pediatric Mental Health and Addiction Care.
Puneeta Tandon, Department of Medicine, was awarded the Alberta Innovates Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Health System (PRIHS), to develop the Alberta Cirrhosis Care Team (ACCT).
Ashley Gillson, Department of Medicine, was awarded the 2018 Internal Medicine Osler Award for the best ambulatory care experience.
Students, Residents and Trainees
Alberta Innovates Training and Early Career Development (TECD) Programs:
Congratulations to the future health leaders who have been awarded the TECD award in Graduate Studentship, MD-PhD Studentship, Postgraduate Fellowship and Clinician Fellowship categories.
Graduate Studentship
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Kim Ho, Department of Pediatrics (Supervisor Gary Lopaschuk) - Ketone Metabolism in the Failing Heart
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Kenji Rowel Lim, Department of Medical Genetics (Supervisor Toshifumi Yokota) - Developing an effective exon 45-55 skipping treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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Bruno Saleme, Department of Medicine (Supervisor Gopi Sutendra) - Metabolic modulation as a novel therapy for chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity
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David Tandio, Department of Pharmacology (Supervisor James Hammond) - Investigating the role of Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter-4 (ENT4) in cardiovascular diseases
MD-PhD Studentship
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Abdullah Ishaque, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (Supervisor Sanjay Kalra) - Validation of MRI-based Measures in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Clinician Fellowship
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Jerry Dang, Department of Surgery (Supervisor Daniel Birch) - The Microbiology of Bariatric Surgery
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Jenna-Lynn Senger, Department of Surgery (Supervisor K. Ming Chan) - Elucidating the conditioning lesion-like effects of brief electrical stimulation on accelerating peripheral nerve regeneration
Postgraduate Fellowship
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Zaid Almaayah, Department of Pediatrics (Supervisor Jason Dyck) - The role of ketones in heart failure
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Hamid Moghadas, Department of Medicine (Supervisor Vivian Mushahwar) - A wearable sensor for early detection of deep tissue pressure injuries
The Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI) congratulates their award-winning graduate students on the following awards:
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Rebecca Long, Behdad Parhizi, Noam Steinberg - Dean's Doctoral Student Awards
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Brian Marriott - Graduate Student Recruitment Scholarship
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Tejal Aslesh, Nicholas Batty, Carolyn Fleck-Prediger, Krista Metz, Jasmeen Saini, Andrew Schmaus - FoMD 75th Anniversary Award
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Abdullah Ishaque - ALS Canada/ Brain Canada Trainee Award
The Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta (CRINA) has awarded three graduate students with La Vie En Rose Scholarships in Breast Cancer Research. Congratulations to:
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Daniel Krys (Supervisor Frank Wuest)
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Francisca Cristi Munoz (Supervisors Maya Shmulevitz and Mary Hitt)
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Zelei Yang (Supervisors David Brindley and Denise Hemmings)
Congratulations to the following winners of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry's graduate student research awards.
75th Anniversary Graduate Student Award
Abdalla Abdrabou - Basic Science
Parnian Alavi - Basic Science
Sara Amidian - Basic Science
Tejal Aslesh - Basic Science
Bishoi Aziz - Clinical
Pranidhi Baddam - Basic Science
Nicholas Batty - Basic Science
Bhumi Bhatt - Basic Science
Raelynn Brassard - Basic Science
Fangze Cai - Basic Science
Geoffrey Casey - Basic Science
Jacqueline Crossman - Basic Science
Cole Delyea - Basic Science
Stephanie Dijk - Basic Science
Mohammad-Hossien Doosti - Basic Science
Fahed Elian - Basic Science
Maryam Elyasi - Basic Science
Yuliya Fakhr - Basic Science
Carolyn Fleck-Prediger - Clinical
Mahmoud Gheblawi - Basic Science
Brianna Greenwood - Basic Science
Morganne Held - Basic Science
Claudia Holody - Basic Science
David Hu - Basic Science
Aishwarya Iyer - Basic Science
Zixuan (Christine) Li - Basic Science
Xiong Liu - Basic Science
Shu Luo - Basic Science
Yuhao Ma - Basic Science
Krista Metz - Basic Science
Sara Moradipoor - Basic Science
Tautvydas Paskevicius - Basic Science
Wojciech Pietrasik - Clinical
Conrad Pridie - Basic Science
Saima Rajabali - Clinical
Sabitha Rajaruban - Basic Science
Eduardo Reyes-Serratos - Basic Science
Jasmeen Saini - Basic Science
Hassan Sarker - Basic Science
Andrew Schmaus - Basic Science
ShimaShahbaz - Basic Science
Cameron Smithers - Basic Science
Reed Sutton - Clinical
Brendan Todd - Basic Science
David Vu - Clinical
Adrianne Watson - Basic Science
Lingyu Xu - Basic Science
Kang Yu - Basic Science
Tayyaba Zehra - Basic Science
Dean's Doctoral Student awards
Aristeidis Boukouris - Basic Science
Ruiqi Cai - Basic Science
Brandon Chan - Basic Science
Christopher Cromwell - Basic Science
Jhon Ralph Enterina - Basic Science
Rebecca Long - Basic Science
Tyler Marshall - Clinical
Julia May - Basic Science
Behdad Parhizi - Clinical
Bruno Saleme - Basic Science
Noam Steinberg - Basic Science
Quinn Storozynsky - Basic Science
Alexander Szojka - Basic Science
Shahid Ullah - Basic Science
Jingyang Xu - Basic Science
Zelei Yang - Basic Science
Graduate Student Recruitment Scholarship
Luam Araya - Basic Science
Sabin Boszo - Basic Science
Bruna Dutra - Basic Science
Zoe Dworsky-Fried - Basic Science
Paige Grant - Basic Science
Karen Ho - Basic Science
Guoju Hong - Basic Science
Jaeho Hwang - Basic Science
Jaeho Hwang - Basic Science
Evan Kerek - Basic Science
Ayodeji Kulepa - Basic Science
Larissa Lautner - Basic Science
Marina Lemieszek - Basic Science
Brian Marriott - Basic Science
Melika Motamedi - Basic Science
Nathan Nadolski - Basic Science
Ronan Noble - Basic Science
Matthew Saurette - Basic Science
Yishi Shen - Basic Science
Arunima Sivanand - Clinical
Nicholas Wawryk - Basic Science
Madeleine Wiebe - Basic Science
Nishaka William - Basic Science
Allan Yarahmady - Basic Science
Medical Science Graduate Program Scholarships
Kelsea Drall
Peter Anto Johnson
Gurnit Kaur
Zeenat Ladak
Babak Nami Mollalu
Mikaela Nevin
Thanh-Tu Pham
Tho Tran