Past Clinical Research Fund Awardees


  1. Etienne Mahe, Erin Degelman, Tara Beattie

    Title: Improving the reliability of buccal swab germline sampling with rapid cell culture.

  2. Ghazwan Altabbaa, Tanya Beran, Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci, Corrinne Pidhorney, and Joseph Kim

    Title: Evaluation of PPE Certification Courses for COVID-19.

  3. Scott McClure, Kenton Rommens, Michelle Keir and Danielle Southern

    Title: Distinguishing Aortic Dissections (Type A or B) using Diagnostic and Procedural Codes - A Validation Study to Broaden Thoracic Aortic Research.

  4. Stephanie Plamondon

    Title: Telepresence Robot Usability to deliver Music Therapy and Peer-Support For Hospital Inpatients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  5. Krentz Hartmut, Michael Gill,  Jia Hu, and Raynel Lang

    Title: Simple Perfusion Reconstruction Algorithm (SPIRAL) Clinical Research Study.

  1. Stephen Freedman, Terry Klassen, Stuart Dalziel, todd Florin, Nathan Kupperman

    Title: Clinical characterization and outcomes of children potentially infected by 2019-nCoV presenting to pediatric emergency departments

  2. Andrew Dodd, Chistin Schindler

    Title: How isolated are isolated posterior malleolus fractures?

  3. Braden Manns, Yewande Ogundeji

    Title: Factors that influence specialist physician’s payment model preferences and the association with practice patterns and quality of care

  4. Margaret M Kelly, Catherine Eastwood

    Title: Establishing a biorepository and cohort of Albertans tested for COVID-19

  1. Aneal Khan, Steven Boyd

    Title: Investigating the use of microRNA sequencing using NGS methods in liver transplant patients

  2. Emma Billington, Greg Kline, Steve Boyd, Fariba Aghajafari, Lynn Feasel

    Title: Building a Fracture-Free Future: An innovative clinical trial evaluating the effects of zoledronic acid upon long term bone mass preservation and fracture risk in early postmenopausal women

  3. Brandy Callahan, Ismail Zahinoor, Ganesh Aravind, Alexander McGirr

    Title: Associations between cognition and Alzheimer biomarkers in bipolar disorder

  1. Jean Addington

    Title: A Mobile-based App to Monitor Social Functioning for Youth At-Risk of Psychosis: Feasibility Study

  2. Quan Long

    Title: Power Issue of designs for studies of genetic basis of diseases

  3. Ranita Manocha, Janet Ronsky, Gregor Kuntze

    Title: Upper Extremety kinematics and Muscle Activity with Crutch Use

  4. Stephen Freedman, Gillian Tarr, Linda Chui

    Title: Contribution and Interaction of Shiga Toxin Subtypes to Escherichia coli O157:hy Virulence

  5. Marc Kerba

    Title: CAFCARS: Cannabis For Cancer-Related Symptoms

  6. Charlene Elliott, Joel Reardon, Emily Truman, Dana Olstad

    Title: Grab FM!: Monitoring the marketing of foods to teenagers

  7. C Ryan Martin, Nigel Shive, Peter David Longino

    Title: Biomedical outcomes following graft tensioning sequence in bi-cruciate ligament reconstructions

  8. Wendy Smith, Elise Fear, Sarah Quirk, Michael Roumeliotis, Petra Grendarova, Pinilla James, Tak Fung

    Title: A novel imaging system for measuring cosmetic outcomes in breast radiotherapy


  1. Philip Barber

    Shelagh Coutts, Nils Forket, and Eric Smith

    Title: Simple Perfusion Reconstruction Algorithm (SPIRAL) Clinical Research Study

  2. Miriam Berchuk

    Jonathan Little, Sanjay Beeson, Chelsia Gillis, Richard Ng, Kelly Johnston, Gabrielle Zimmermann, Sylvia Teare, and Jean Miller

    Title: Osteoarthrutus Optinization Program

  3. Frankie Fraulin

    Alan Roberson, Paul Ronksley, Donald Maoliosa, and Rebecca Hartley

    TitleDevelopment of a Pediatric Hand Fracture Care pathway – Identification of Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation

  4. Chris Ma

    Title: Identifying therapeutic targets in adults with eosinophilic esophagitis: a randomized, multi-center placebo-controlled, double-blind treat-to-target trial

  5. Nowell Fine

    Jacqueline McMillan

    Title: The prevalence, severity, and prognostic utility of frailty assessment in transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy: The FRAILTY-ATTR Study.

  6. Cathy Lu, Lauren Burt, Maitreyi Kothandaraman, Emma Billington

    Title: Relationship of Food Intake with Bone Mineral Density in Crohn’s Disease

  7. Sarah Menske, Claire Barber, Marinka Twilt, Camille Figueiredo, Cheryl Barnabe

    Title: Point-of-care imaging to triage urgent inflammatory arthritis care

  8. Satish Raj, Jacquie Baker, Robert Sheldon, Richard Wilson

    Title: Chemoreflex Modulation to Treat Orthostatic Hypotension

  9. Soia Ahmed, Sandra Dumanski, Nathalie Sadd, Keila Turino Miranda, Chantal Rytz

    Title: Exogenous estrogen and kidney health in transgender women

  10. Claire Barber, Cheryl Barnabe, Glen Hazlewood, Megan Barber

    Title: Investigating the health services and clinical impacts of COVID-19 on individuals with inflammatory arthritis

  11. Dave Campbell, Hanan Bassyouni

    Title: Point-of-Care Screening for A1C, Foot pathology, Eye disease, and Renal complications: the SAFER project

  1. Lois Donovan

    Title: Closed loop Insulin delivery by glucose Responsive CompUter algorithms In Type 1 diabetic pregnancies (CIRCUIT)

  2. Kathleen Chaput, Debora McNeil, Carly McMorris, Stephen Wood, Amy Metcalfe

    Title: An anonymous survey to generate a valid estimate of the prevalence of cannabis use in pregnancy in Alberta: building foundations for future research and public health strategies

  3. Ranita Manocha

    Title: Crutch Type Influences on Assisted Gait Following Knee Surgery

  4. Jia Hu, Robert Oxoby, Braden Manns, Hasan Sheikh, Raynell Lang, Jamie Benham

    Title: COVID-19: Obstacles, and Nudges to Ameliorate Contact Tracing with ABTraceToger App (CONTACT-APP)

  1. Emma Billington, Steven Boyd, Raylene Reimer, suzanne Morin

    Title: Probiotic LActobacillus for Treatment of Osteoporosis (PLATO) Study: A randomized controlled feasibility trial

  2. Alexander Gregory, Agbani Ejaife

    Title: Alterations in platelet procoagulant membrane dynamics (PMD) following cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass

  3. Yasmin Nasser, Keith Sharkey, Christian Turbide

    Title: A randomized placebo-controlled trial of cannabidiol (CBD) in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

  4. Natalie Yanchar, Matthew Yeung, Brent Hagel, Paul McBeth, April Elliot, Lisette Lockyer

    Thomas Stelfox, Alison Macpherson, Nadine Schuurman

    Title: Between Two Paradigms: Comparing experiences and outcomes for adolescents treated at pediatric and adult trauma centers

  5. Dylan Pillai

    Title: LAMPREG Innovation by ELUCIDx Incorporated

  1. Shirin Bonni, Donald Morris

    Title: Identifying novel regulators of chemoresistance and biomarkers in breast cancer

  2. Adam Cheng, Vincent Grant, Yiqun Lin, Elaine Gilfoyle, Jeff Caird, Tyler Williamson

    Title: Patterns of Inattentional Blindness during Cardiac Arrest Care: Do Healthcare Providers See and Correct

  3. Jijon Humberto, Bertus Eksteen, Paul Beck

    Title: Identification of IgA-coated bacteria which promote inflammation in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

  4. Quan Long, John Gill, Guido Van Marle

    Title: Computational genomic approaches to proactively combat drug resistant Human

  5. Minh Dang Nguyen, Jong Rho

    Title: Neuropathology of the Cytoskeleton in Human Epilepsy

  6. Maja Tarailo-Graovac

    Title: gSforRDD: Genome Sequencing for Rare Discovery and Diagnostics

  7. Graham Thompson, Craig Jenne, Robin Eccles

    Title: Host Immune Response in Pediatric Appendicitis (The HIRPA Study).

  8. May Lynn Quan, Yuan Xu, Shiying Kong, Winson Cheung, Antoine Bouchard-Fortier, Joseph Dort

    Title: Development and Validation of case-finding algorithms for recurrence of breast cancer using routinely

  9. Tavis Campbell, Rash Joshua, Telfer Jo Ann

    Title: The BE-EMPOWERED Study: Bariatric Outcome Enhancement - Evaluating a Mindfulness-Based Program for Optimizing Weight-loss and Reducing Eating Disorder Symptoms

  10. Andreas Kramer, Gallagher Clare, Couillard Philippe , Griesdale Donald, Zygun David

    Kutsogiannis Demetrios,  English Shane, McCredie Victoria, Turgeon Alexis

    Title: CPP Optimal To Individualize Care of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients (COPILOT)

  11. Guido Van Marle, Trushar Patel , Carla Coffin

    Title: Towards Targeting Persistent Hepatitis B Virus Infection.

  12. Jennifer Yamamoto, Lois Donovan, Deborah Dewy, Josephine Ho

    Title: Childhood Adiposoty and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes among Offspring of women with Type 1 Diabetes: A Follow up Study pf the CONCEPTT Randomized Control Trial (CONCEPTT Kids)

  13. D Eldon Spackman, Braden Manns

    Title: Developing and Testing Key Performance Indicators for Prescription Medication Systems in Alberta and Ontario

  1. Steve Greenway, Paul Fedak, Julien Marcadier

    Title: C4linical Validation of Differentially-Methylated Cell-free DNA as a Novel Biomarker for Human Aortopathy

  2. Tara Beattie, Carolyn Owen

    Title: Investigation of the genetic basis of familial hematological malignancies

  3. Alexander Leung, Gregory Kline, Doreen Rabi, Sachin Pendharkar, Patrick Hanly

    Title: Prognostic Risk Stratification with an Aldosterone-to-Renin Ratio in Adults with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

  4. Jehangir Appoo (listed under Akash Fichadiya), Eric Herget, Alexander Gregory, Vamshi Kotha

    Title: North America Study of ascending Aorta: Surgery vs. Surveillance (NASA SvS)

  5. Noreen Kamal, Michael Hill, Mayank Goyal, Anders Nygren, Andrew Demchuk

    Title: Decision Support Tool IN Endovascular therapy (DESTINE): Modeling the best transport for ischemic.

  6. Maitreyi Kothandaraman (listed under Maitreyi Raman) Mark Swain, Lorian Taylor, Karen Madsen

    Puneet Tandon

    Title: Personalized anti-inflammatory dietary intervention in malnourished patients with cirrhosis: A Feasibility Study

  7. Deepa Suryanarayan, Cynthia Wu, Marc Carrier, Eddy Lang, Dwip Prajapati

    Title: Apixaban versus low molecular weight heparin for treatment of catheter related thrombosis in cancer patients- A pilot study to assess feasibility of a randomized controlled trial

  8. Michael Monument, Shannon Puloski

    Title: Surgical Decision Making in the Management of Metastatic Bone Disease: Matching Patient Expectations with Surgical Goals

  9. Zahra Goodarzi, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Zahinoor Ismail, Eric Smith, Tamara Pringsheim

    Title: Detecting Anxiety in Those with Parkinson's Disease or Dementia: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study

  10. Rahim Kachra, Maria Santana, Kyle Kemp, Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci, Nishan Sharma

    Title: Using design thinking to improve the patient experience

  11. Shabih Hasan

    Title: Prevalence and Pathophysiology of Hypoxemic Episodes and Their Impact on Hemodynamics in Preterm

  12. Gerald Pfeffer, Sameer Chhibber

    Title: Identifying a common molecular mechanism for late-onset genetic muscle diseases

  13. Ron Sigal, Bernard Corenblum, Doreen Rabi, Christine Friedenreich, Jamie Benham, Jane Booth

    Title: The Impact of Continuous Aerobic Exercise and High-Intensity Interval Training on Reproductive Outcomes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

  14. Alexander Rezansoff, Roman Krawetz, Antoine Dufour, Nicholas Mohtadi

    Title: Functional characterization of human synovial mesenchymal stem cells deriveVamshi Kotha, Jehangir Appoo, Eric Hergetd from the knee for the treatment of osteoarthritis.

  15. Vamshi Kotha, Jehangir Appoo, Eric Herget

    Title: Hemiarch vs Extended arch in Aortic Dissection - resulTs of A Randomized Trial (HEADSTART)

     

  16. Dylan Pillai

    Title: C. difficile near-patient testing versus centralized laboratory testing: a cluster randomized trial.

  1. Prism Schneider, Paul Cantle, Paul McBeth, Robert Korley, Alex Gregory, Leslie Skeith, Adrenne Lee,

    Braedon McDonald, Andrea Soo

    Title: Thrombelastography-Defined Duration of Hypercoagulability Following Pelvis and Acetabular Fractures

  1. Mary Brindle

    Title: The Surgical Safety Checklist Revisited: Redevelopment of a Point-of-Care Tool to Improve Surgical Safety

  2. Pietro Ravani, Kathryn King-Shier, Meghan Elliott, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Matthew James, Braden Manns

    Robert Quinn, Jennifer MacRae, Nairne Scott-Douglas

    Title: Individualizing the hemodialysis access strategy: addressing knowledge gaps to promote shared decisionmaking