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The APPROACH
Team
The following people administer the
APPROACH project as directors, IT personnel, project
managers, and researchers.
Also included are the team of nurses, lab
technicians, and cardiologists who enter the registry data
at various health regions across Alberta. See the
Alberta Partners page for more information.
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Name |
Role |
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Merril
Knudston, MD |
Principal Investigator |
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William Ghali, MD, MPH |
Research Director |
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Ross Tsuyuki, PharmD, MSc |
Chair, Clinical Steering Committee |
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Back: Dorothy, Diane, Aaron, Darryl, Prince,
Jason
Front: Wendy, Chris, Pieter, Marie
| Name |
Role |
Office |
Diane Galbraith, BN, MSc
|
APPROACH Manager
|
Calgary |
Marie Hawkins, RN, BScN |
Manager,
Heart Alert |
Calgary |
Wendy
Leschuk |
Report
& Security Coordinator |
Calgary |
Danielle
Southern, MSc |
Research
Associate |
Calgary |
Aakanksha
Kalla |
Data Entry |
Calgary |
Jason Badry,
BSc, ISP |
Manager, IT
Infrastructure |
Edmonton |
| Prince Michael,
MCAD, MCP |
Manager, IT
Software Development |
Edmonton |
Pieter
Boone |
Programmer/Analyst - HL7 Interfaces |
Edmonton |
| Dorothy Falk |
Business
Analyst, Programmer/Analyst |
Edmonton |
Aaron
Gatzke |
QA Tech
Support Analyst |
Edmonton |
Chris Hopp |
Programmer/Analyst |
Edmonton |
Darryl
Martin |
Programmer/Analyst - Reports
|
Edmonton |
Leona
Triplett |
Admin
Support
|
Edmonton |
| Colleen Norris,
PhD |
Consulting
Epidemiologist |
Edmonton |
APPROACH Research Collaborators
Name |
Research Area |
Affiliation |
|
Dr. Michelle Graham |
Cardiology |
University of Alberta |
Dr. Padma Kaul |
Epidemiology |
University of Alberta |
Dr. Finlay McAlister |
Epidemiology, health services research |
University of Alberta |
Dr. Hamid Banijamali |
Nuclear
Cardiology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Stefania Bertazzon |
Geography, geographic information science |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn |
Nephrology, epidemiology |
University of Calgary |
|
Dr. Kathryn King |
Cardiac
rehabilitation, risk factors |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Braden Manns |
Health
economics, nephrology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Hude Quan |
Epidemiology |
University of Calgary |
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Dr. Karen Then |
Cardiology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Dean Traboulsi |
Cardiology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Nigel Waters |
Geography, geographic information science |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Min Gao |
Biostatistics |
University of British Columbia |
Dr. Karin Humphries |
Epidemiology, health services research |
University of British Columbia |
Dr. Jack Tu |
Epidemiology, health services research |
University of Toronto |
Dr. Roger Baskett |
Cardiac surgery |
Dalhousie University |
Dr. Greg Hirsch |
Cardiac
surgery |
Dalhousie University |
Dr Jacques Cornuz |
Epidemiology, health services research |
University of Lausanne , Switzerland |
Mr. Saif Rathore |
Health services research |
Yale University , U.S.A. |
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