The APPROACH Team
The following people administer the APPROACH project as directors, IT personnel, project managers, and researchers.
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Merril Knudtson, 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 |
The APPROACH Team
NAME |
ROLE |
OFFICE |
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Diane Galbraith, BN, MSc. |
APPROACH Manager |
Calgary |
Prince Michael, MCAD, MCP |
Manager, IT Software Development |
Edmonton |
Pieter Boone |
Programmer/Analyst - HL7 Interfaces |
Edmonton |
Aaron Gatzke |
QA Tech Support Analyst |
Edmonton |
Jo Harris, BSc. (Hons) |
Research Associate |
Calgary |
Chris Hopp |
Programmer/Analyst |
Red Deer |
Aakanksha Kalla |
Data Entry |
Calgary |
Wendy Leschuk |
Report & Security Coordinator |
Calgary |
Adriane Lewin |
Research Associate |
Calgary |
Colleen Norris, MN, PhD |
Consulting Epidemiologist |
Edmonton |
Nandita Shome |
Support/Testing |
Edmonton |
Danielle Southern, MSc. |
Research Associate |
Calgary |
Dave Spohn |
Programmer/Analyst |
Edmonton |
Leona Triplett |
Admin Support |
Edmonton |
Kelly Weiss, MCSD, C.E.T. |
Programmer/Analyst |
Edmonton |
Position Vacant |
IT Infrastructure |
Edmonton |
APPROACH Research Collaborators
NAME |
RESEARCH |
AFFILIATION |
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Dr. Michelle Graham |
Cardiology |
University of Alberta |
Padma Kaul, PhD |
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 |
Kathryn King, PhD |
Cardiac rehabilitation, risk factors |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Braden Manns |
Health economics, nephrology |
University of Calgary |
Hude Quan, PhD |
Epidemiology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Karen Then |
Cardiology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Dean Traboulsi |
Cardiology |
University of Calgary |
Dr. Nigel Waters |
Geography, geographic information science |
University of Calgary |
Min Gao, PhD |
Biostatistics |
University of British Columbia |
Dr. Robert Boone |
Epidemiology, health services research |
University of British Columbia |
Karin Humphries, MSc, MBA, DSc |
Cardiology |
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 |
Dr. Saif Rathore |
Health services research |
Yale University , U.S.A. |
Fiona Shrive, PhD |
Nephrology, Biostatistics |
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Dr. Billie-Jean Martin |
CV Surgery Fellow |
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