The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,the first premier of Alberta,and Henry Marshall Tory,the university's first president. It was enabled through the Post-secondary Learning Act. The university is considered a "comprehensive academic and research university" (CARU),which means that it offers a range of academic and professional programs that generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials.
Carol E. Cass is a Canadian research scientist. From 2003 to 2010,Cass served as director of Alberta's Cross Cancer Institute. She is Canada Research Chair in oncology at the University of Alberta and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Lara K. Mahal is an American chemist who is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada. She is also a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alberta. She is notable both for her pioneering work establishing lectin microarrays as a new technology for glycomics,her work on miRNA regulation of glycosylation and her graduate work with Carolyn R. Bertozzi on unnatural carbohydrate incorporation. Work in her laboratory focuses on understanding the role of carbohydrates in human health using systems- and chemical biology-based approaches
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at University of Alberta is located in Edmonton,Alberta,Canada. Established in 1913,it is one of the oldest medical schools in Western Canada and is composed of 21 departments,two stand-alone divisions,9 research groups,and 24 research centers and institutes. Educational,clinical and research activities are conducted in 29 buildings on or near the University of Alberta north campus.
Knowledge translation (KT) is the activities involved in moving research from the laboratory,the research journal,and the academic conference into the hands of people and organizations who can put it to practical use. Knowledge translation is most often used in the health professions,including medicine,nursing,pharmaceuticals,rehabilitation,physical therapy,and public health.
Nicole Lyn Letourneau is a Canadian professor and researcher. She is a Research Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health at the University of Calgary. Formerly she held the Alberta Children's Hospital Chair and Norlien Foundation Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health (2011–2021) and Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development (2007–2011). She currently serves as the director of the RESOLVE Alberta and principal investigator for the CHILD Studies Program at Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. She has written over 210 peer-reviewed publications;authored the books,Parenting and Child Development:Issues and Answers,What Kind of Parent Am I:Self-Surveys That Reveal The Impact of Toxic Stress Scientific Parenting:What Science reveals about Parental Impact,and has contributed more than 20 other books on parenting and childcare.
Christine Therese Chambers is a Canadian clinical psychologist at Dalhousie University. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Children's Pain.
Colleen M. Flood is the Dean of Queen's University Faculty of Law.
Marion Janine Brodie is a Canadian political scientist. She is a Distinguished University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta. Brodie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002 and honoured with the Order of Canada in 2017.
Tania Marjorie Bubela is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
Janice Margaret Morse in Blackburn,Lancs.,UK to New Zealand parents. She is an anthropologist and nurse researcher who is best known as the founder and chief proponent of the field of qualitative health research. She has taught in the United States and Canada. She received PhDs in transcultural nursing and in anthropology at the University of Utah,where she later held the Ida May “Dotty”Barnes and D Keith Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair in the College of Nursing at University of Utah,. She is also an Emerita Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah and Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta. She is founder of three journals and created four scholarly book series on qualitative research. She was Founding Director of the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology at University of Alberta,the longest standing research institute on qualitative inquiry in the world.
Jocelyn Grant Downie is the James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy and Law at Schulich School of Law. She was the first Dalhousie scholar to be named a Pierre Trudeau Foundation Fellow.
Cheryl Marie Bartlett is a Canadian biologist. She is a professor emerita of biology and former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Integrative Science at the Department of Biology at Cape Breton University.
Shirley Marie Stinson,OC known as the "architect of nursing research" was a Canadian nursing leader who made major contributions to nursing graduate education in Alberta and nursing research internationally. She was the first Alberta nurse to earn a doctorate,and the first woman and first nurse to be awarded a Canadian federal title of “Senior National Health Research Scientist”. She was President of the Canadian Nurses Association,served in an advisory role to the World Health Organization,received four honorary doctoral degrees,and was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001.
Karen Ann Kidd is a Canadian aquatic ecotoxicologist. She is the Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health and Professor of Biology at McMaster University and member of the International Joint Commission.
Diane Terri Finegood is an American–Canadian kinesiologist,chemical and biomedical engineer,and physiologist. Finegood was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2007.
Kerry Stephen Courneya is a Canadian kinesiologist. As a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Cancer at the University of Alberta,his research focuses on physical activity after a cancer diagnosis.
Heather Evelyn Castleden is a Canadian geographer. Since 2021,she has been an Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health at the University of Victoria. She was previously the Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations for Health,Environments,and Communities at Queen's University at Kingston.
Cindy-Lee E. Dennis is a Canadian professor in the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine,Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is also a senior scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Institute at Mt Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She previously held the Women's Health Research Chair at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute,St. Michael's Hospital,the Canada Research Chair in Perinatal Community Health at the University of Toronto,and the Shirley Brown Chair in Women's Mental Health at Women's College Hospital.
Ruth L. Collins-Nakai is a retired Canadian cardiologist,educator,researcher,physician leader,healthcare advisor,and public health advocate.
