APPROACH Grants

FOMD/CH (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Capital Health) Emerging
Research Team Grant (2008-2010) Outcomes of medical, surgical and
percutaneous treatment of PAD. PI: S McMurtry/F McAllister.

CFI - Canadian Foundation for Innovation with matched funds from Libin
Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta and Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
(July 2005 - June 2008): Brodening the scope of APPROACH. PI: WA Ghali.

Brenda Stafford Foundation Chair in Geriatric Medicine (Jan 2005–Dec 2006) Frailty, inflammatory mechanism, and adverse health outcomes among older patients. PI: C Maxwell.

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Apr 2004-Mar 2006): Ethnic difference in access to invasive cardiovascular procedures in Canada. PI: H Quan

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Apr 2003-Mar 2006) U.S. – Canadian comparison of cardiac care in the elderly. PI: Padma Kaul

Institute of Health Economics (Apr 2004-Mar 2005) Implementation of ICD-10 data merging solution for missing data. PI: W Ghali

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Oct 2003-Sept 2006): Gender differences in health-related quality of life outcomes following treatment for coronary artery disease. PI: L Jensen and C Norris

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Oct 2003-Sept 2005): Outcomes of after-hours primary PCI for AMI in Alberta. PI: MM Graham

CIHR - Institute of Aging The Impact of Neurocognitive and Psychological Factors on Quality of Life and Functional Recovery among Older Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization Procedures”. PI: Maxwell CJ.

IHE – Institute of Health Economics and Calgary Health Region Centre for 
Advancement of Health (2003-2004):  Validity of defining ethnicity using 
surnames. PI: Quan H.

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Oct 2002-Sept 2004): Cardiac procedure waiting times: exploratory analyses toward the development of national reporting standards. PI: WA Ghali

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Oct 2002-Sept 2004): Secondary prevention – the gap between evidence and practices. PI: K Humphries.

Institute for Health Economics (Apr 2002-Mar 2004): Clinical prediction rule for outcomes after PCI performed for patients with acute coronary syndromes. PI: WA Ghali/J Hubacek

Calgary Health Region (Apr 2002-Dec 2003): Survey of reasons for chelation therapy use among Alberta patients undergoing angiography. PI: WA Ghali/H Quan

CFI - Canadian Foundation for Innovation with matched funds from AB government (July 2001-June 2005): Broadening the scope of APPROACH. PI: WA Ghali

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research with supplemental funding from Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada - Interdisciplinary Health Research Team Competition (Apr 2001-Mar 2006): CCORT: Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team. PI: Jack Tu

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. (Apr 2001-Mar 2004): Modifying Cardiovascular Disease Risk. PI: K King

CIHR - Canadian Institute for Health Research (Apr 2001-Mar 2003): Highly centralized
tertiary care services and access to urgent high technology care for AMI. PI: WA Ghali

Calgary Regional Health Authority (Apr 2001-Mar 2003): Alberta atlas of cardiac procedures. PI: ML Knudtson

Calgary Health Region (Jan 2001-Dec 2002): A comparison of IABP utilization and effectiveness in two tertiary care cardiac surgical centers. PI: WA Ghali/Roger Baskett

Heart and Stroke Foundation (operating grant July 1999-June 2001): Sociodemographic factors and access to cardiac procedures. PI: WA Ghali