Covid Corner 2022-2023

Faculty & Planning Committee

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Faculty

AHS Post COVID Task Force - Senior Implementation Lead

Nothing to disclose

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Disclosure

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: Federation of Canadian Women in Medicine, GSK, Merck, Pfizer - Honoraria for continuing medical education; none for COVID-19 orCOVID-19 vaccine related work

  • Funded grants or clinical trials: Principal Investigator PHAC , Co-Investigator: CIRN, Genome Alberta, Alberta Children’s HospitalFoundation; Co-Investigator: Merck (pneumococcal vaccine clinical trial), GSK (rotavirus & meningococcous vaccine clinical trials)

Associate Professor, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Disclosure:

  • Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureau: GlaxoSmithKline - GSK COVID-19 Therapeutics Advisory Board June 2021
  • Funded grants or clinical trials: Gilead Research Contract: Intravital Microscopy of Viral Hepatitis in Living Woodchucks; Oncovir and DND Canada Clinical Trial Contract: Intranasal poly I:C to prime antiviral immunity; Natural MA Inc Research Contract to evaluate anti-inflammatory properties of a diet supplement.
    CHIR Project Grant CHIR Priority, CIHR, University of Calgary Department of Pediatrics Innovation Grant, NFRF, Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade, NSERC

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine & Physiology and Pharmacology, Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Senior Medical Director, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Youth Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Service.

Professor, Family Medicine and Director, Rural CPD, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Chief Medical Officer of Health, Alberta Health
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Disclosure:

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: Government of Alberta, contract employee
  • Alberta Precision Laboratories, Member of Advisory Board

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics;
Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases; and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and
Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services

Disclosure:

  • Funded grants or clinical trials: 
    1) Co-Primary Investigator, Investigator or Collaborator – CIHR, PHAC, Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)
    2) COVID-19 longitudinal sero-epidemiology in children - Government of Alberta
    3) COVID-19 longitudinal sero-epidemiology in children, and immunity and genetic factors in host response - ACHRI.
    4) Pneumococcal disease epidemiology - Pfizer.
    5) Pneumococcal vaccine clinical trial - Merck
    6) Rotavirus vaccine clinical trial, meningococcal vaccine clinical trial – GSK
    7) COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial - Moderna

Clinical Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary;
Senior Medical Director, Provincial Seniors Health and Continuing Care;
MAID Lead, Alberta Health Services

Nothing to disclose

Clinical Lecturer, General Internal Medicine Physician, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Disclosure:

  • Other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well- informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity: Institute of Health Economics, Post Doctorate Fellowship grant

Professor of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Medical Director Infection Prevention and Control, Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services

Disclosure:

  • Funded grants or clinical trials: Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Pfizer, WHO - Peer reviewed research grant on acute and primary care preparedness for COVID-19 in Alberta, Canada; Primary local investigator for the STRIVE S. aureus vaccine RCT in vertebral spinal surgery with instrumentation for which all funding was provided only to the University of Calgary; Co-investigator on a WHO funded study using integrated human factors and ethnography approaches to identify and scale innovative IPC guidance implementation supports in primary care with a focus on low-resource settings and using drone aerial systems to deliver medical supplies and PPE to remote First Nations communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Any and all other investments or relationships: WHO, Cochrane Collaboration, AHS Scientific Advisory Group - Member and Chair of the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Research and Development Expert Group for COVID-19 and a member of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) Ad-hoc COVID-19 IPC Guidance Development Group, both of which provide multidisciplinary advice to the WHO, for which no funding is received and from which no funding recommendations are made for any WHO contracts or grants; Member of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group and the AHS Scientific Advisory Group

Co-Founder of Long Covid Canada

Disclosure:

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: PHAC, CIHR, CAMH, Realize Canada - Senior Advisor, Patient Partner, Speaker

Medical Co-Lead, Outpatient Covid Treatment Program, Alberta Health Services 

Nothing to disclose

Operational Manager, Health Link, Alberta Health Services

Nothing to disclose

 

Practice Director, Provincial Psychology, Allied Health Professional Practice & Education, Health Professions Strategy & Practice, Alberta Health Services

Nothing to disclose

Medical Lead, Outpatient Covid Treatment Program, Alberta Health Services 

Nothing to disclose

Disclosure:

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: Canadian Drug and Health Technology Agency, Peer review of a scoping review protocol

Nothing to disclose

Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta;
Infectious Diseases Specialist;
Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, Northern Alberta, Alberta Health Services;
Co-Chair COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group, Alberta Health Services

Disclosure:

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: Clinical Care Options, CADTH
    speaker-developer, CME company, unrestricted educational grant reviewer and expert committee member

Nurse practitioner, Alberta Health Services

Nothing to disclose

Nurse Practitioner - PLC Long Covid Clinic

Nothing to disclose

Nothing to disclose

Senior Implementation Lead, Long COVID, Alberta Health Services

Nothing to disclose

Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
Site-chief, Foothills Medical Centre, Department of Psychiatry
Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education - Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Disclosure:

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: Honoraria: Abbvie, Allergan, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Sunovion, TEVA

  • Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureau: Member of Advisory board/speakers' bureau: Abbvie, Allergan, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Sunovion, TEVA

  • Funded grants or clinical trials: Participation in clinical trials: Boehringer Ingelheim, Purdue, SyneuRx International, TEVA

Clinical Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine and Medical Director, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development and Physician Learning Program (PLP), University of Calgary.
Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Alberta.
Medical Lead, HHC CFPCN
Faculty for CANREACH

Disclosure:

  • Direct financial payments, gifts, in-kind compensation or honoraria: University of Calgary DFM; CanREACH and REACH programs; AHS Medicine SCN; CFPCN - Clinical Lecturer; Medical Director offices of CME and PD and Physician Learning Program; Faculty teacher; Member of Core Committee and Kidney Section SCN; Physician Champion , CFPCN

  • Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureau: Elvium and Takeda Pharmaceuticals - Speakers' bureau

Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

Disclosure:

  • Funded grants or clinical trials: Funding by Alberta Health

Clinical Assistant Professor, Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Planning Committee

Medical Director, Family Medicine, Primary Care Engagement, Physician Learning Program.

Manager, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Medical Director, Rural Education, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development.

Medical Director, Physican Learning Program, University of Calgary.

Director, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Professor and Assistant Dean, Personalized Learning, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development, University of Calgary.

Managing Director, Physician Learning Program, University of Calgary.

Quality and Safety Lead, Hospital Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics.
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Calgary.
Provincial Clinical Knowledge Lead- Pediatrics, Alberta Health Services.

Education Coordinator, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development, University of Calgary

Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Care Medicine Department, University of Calgary.
Intensivist, Rockyview General Hospital & South Health Campus.

Business Specialist, Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
Site-chief, Foothills Medical Centre, Department of Psychiatry.
Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education - Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.