Samuel Wiebe
Professor of Neurology
Director, Clinical Research Unit
MSc, MD, FRCPC
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Dr. Samuel Wiebe is a Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences (DCNS), Community Health Sciences, and Pediatrics for the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is director and founder of the Clinical Research Unit — a faculty-wide unit for clinical analytics and research support in the Cumming School of Medicine at The University of Calgary. (https://cru.ucalgary.ca)
Dr. Wiebe graduated from medical school at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1983 and became certified in Internal Medicine at the National University in Mexico in 1988. He then completed his residency in neurology at the University of Western Ontario in 1993, an MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in 1994, and training in epilepsy and EEG at the London Health Sciences Centre in 1994.
Dr. Wiebe was recruited to Calgary in 2004 as the Kinsmen Chair in Paediatric Neurosciences, and he currently holds the Hopewell Professorship in Clinical Neurosciences Research. Dr. Wiebe is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and was elected by the international community as Secretary General and Treasurer of the International League Against Epilepsy. Dr. Wiebe has a wide variety of academic and research interests which include: clinical research informatics and analytics, outcomes research in clinical neurosciences, randomized neurosurgical trials, quality of life, epidemiological research and evidence based medicine. Dr. Wiebe mentors numerous national and international clinicians and researchers.