TARRANT Team

Program Director

James A Dickinson MB BS, PhD, CCFP, FRACGP

Dr. Dickinson is the director of TARRANT since 2003. He is a family physician trained in epidemiology, with special interests in preventive medicine and screening. He was a member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care from 2009-2016. His clinical practice is in the University of Calgary Family Practice Teaching Clinic at Sheldon Chumir centre.

He took over the Alberta Community respiratory surveillance program from Dr. Mike Tarrant, and has helped it to transform it by joining the national Sentinel Physician Surveillance Network, which adds on the case-control study that measures vaccine effectiveness, for influenza since 2006 and now COVID-19.

Email: dickinsj@ucalgary.ca

Research Assistant

Aunshu Goyal, MB BCh BAO

Aunshu is an international medical graduate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has been working in clinical research for the past 5 years in psychiatry, oncology, and infectious diseases with an interest in finding better pharmacologic treatments to contribute towards improving patient care.

Research Assistant

Rhoda Komolafe, MBBS MRCS (Ed) FICO

Rhoda is an international medical graduate from Nigeria passionate about research. She has worked in the field of research for over 6 years in ophthalmology and Artificial Intelligence. She looks forward to incorporating findings into patient care.

Administrative Assistant

Zoltan Kovacs, BA

Zoltan is a graduate from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with a Management & Society minor. He has been with the University of Calgary for almost 14 years and held roles as a Research Associate and Administrative Assistant.