Following the completion of her co-op with Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia, we are pleased to announce that Anika Morokhovich will be staying on as a member of the department casually. Anika has become an expert on chemotherapy and radiotherapy abstraction through her 8 month co-op and it is great that she can continue to be a part…
Congratulations to Anika Morokhovich and Samantha Cortez on completing their co-ops working with Dr. Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia on the Alberta Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivor Study! Anika manually abstracted all of the treatment details for the 15-17 year-olds treated at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and has also been working on electronic files from the Tom…
Congratulations to Dr. Darren Brenner on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the Departments of Oncology and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine. This promotion is effective as of July 1, 2021 and was well-supported by his department heads. Darren has established a very strong track record of research productivity, teaching, mentorship,…
Congratulations to Dr. Lin Yang on her recently awarded grant entitled: “Participating Exercise Prehabilitation to Keep up Function Capacity for Radical Cystectomy: A Window-of-Opportunity Randomized Controlled Trial: PEAK-RC” from the Office of Surgical Research, University of Calgary. This three year grant was funded for $150,000 and includes Dr M. Eric Hyndman as the Nominated Principal…
Our department was well represented at the recent Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) virtual conference which was held from June 1 to 3, 2021. Congratulations to all of the presenters! Oral presentations (presenter in bold): Trends in the Incidence of Cancer Among Adolescent and Young Adults in Alberta, 1988 to 2017 Ruth Diaz,…
Dr. Christine Friedenreich begins a two-year renewable term as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Research (ACOR) for the Canadian Cancer Society on July 1, 2021 ACOR provides oversight for all CCS grants and awards programs. ACOR also helps recommend research programs and priorities, research and science policies, ongoing research strategic planning and evaluation…
On May 9th, 2021, Nicole Slot celebrated 25 years of service with ACB/AHS and we would like to recognize her multiple contributions to the research programs of several Scientists in our department. Nicole first started working as an interviewer for the Prostate Cancer Case-control Study where her kind, empathetic and non-judgmental nature proved to be…
Dr. Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia was awarded the Department of Oncology’s Young Investigator Award for 2020 at this year’s virtual event held on April 22nd, 2021. Miranda’s outstanding achievements in the first two years of her career with CEPR/Department of Oncology were recognized. She has rapidly established a strong program of research in childhood/adolescent and young adult…
Dr. Lin Yang is leading a VPR Catalyst Grant (UCalgary) along with her co-investigators Drs Colleen Cuthbert, Tarek Bismar and Kevin Martell that is a knowledge survey regarding an exercise intervention for prostate cancer men managed by active surveillance. This six-month project funded at $15,265 will inform further research on this topic in subsequent grants.…
Dr. Cheryl Peters is leading a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant along with Alison Palmer (CAREX Canada), Gordon Pennycook (URegina) and Elizabeth Holmes (Canadian Cancer Society who is the project partner). The team members who worked on the grant and will be engaged in the research include Ela Rydz and Sajjad Fazel. The grant is entitled…