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…
Drs Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia and Christine Friedenreich are leading a project entitled “AYA-PACT: Adolescents and Young Adults be-coming Physically Active after Cancer Trial” that has been funded for five years for $952,425 as a CIHR Project Grant. The aim of this trial is to determine if a home-based, mobile health (mHealth) physical activity intervention can increase…
Dr. Cheryl Peters, along with her colleagues Drs Marie-Élise Parent, Mieke Koehoorn and Paul Demers, is leading a research project entitled “The impact of sex and gender in occupational disease prevention” that has been funded for three years for $360,000 as a CIHR project grant. The aim of this study is to improve systems that…
Dr. Karen Kopciuk, along with Drs Angeline Letendre and Huiming Yang and Ms Reagan Bartel, is leading a research project entitled “Nishtohtamihk li kaansyr (Understanding Cancer): Cancer Screening, Outcomes and Experiences among Métis People in Alberta” that has received a one-year, $100,000 bridge grant through a priority announcement by the CIHR Institute of Indigenous Peoples’…
Sajjad has been selected to be on the City of Calgary’s new Anti-Racism Action Committee. The committee will support the City in developing an anti-racism strategy. This is both an achievement, given that the city received 10x the applicants as they had spots on the committee, but also an opportunity to show gratitude that Sajjad…
Tamer Jarada is a new Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Darren Brenner. He will be doing some work from the Holy Cross, some remotely. Welcome Tamer!
Congratulations to Dr. Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia and her colleagues in their recent success in the Spring 2020 CIHR Project Scheme competition. Their study is entitled “Oncofertility among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors in Alberta: a mixed methods study”. Miranda is leading a large multi-disciplinary team that will examine oncofertility among adolescent and young adult (AYA)…
Congratulations to Charlotte Ryder-Burbidge who successfully defended her MSc thesis in Epidemiology at the University of Alberta. She passed her defense with no revisions and was nominated for the Dean’s Gold Medal for her thesis project entitled: “Does living with Parkinson’s disease affect life-space mobility? A multiple-methods study”. This challenging and interesting project has contributed…