Explore profiles of faculty and staff from across the College of Medicine. This collection highlights some of the people who contribute to our mission.
Regina, SK
Regina, SK
Regina, SK
Prince Albert, SK
Prince Albert, SK
Saskatoon, SK
Prince Albert, SK
Regina, SK
Prince Albert, SK
Regina, SK
Research Area(s): Ovarian follicular development in natural cycles; Ovarian stimulation; Ovulation and ovulation induction; Endometrial Receptivity; Computer vision and artificial intelligence tools in women's health
Saskatoon, SK
Saskatoon, SK
Regina, SK
Saskatoon, SK
Yorkton, SK
North Battleford, SK
Moose Jaw, SK
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Research Area(s): Salmonella transmission and virulence; Gene expression associated with Salmonella biofilm formation; Salmonella vaccine development; Changes associated with host-adaptation of enteric pathogens; Gene reporter and imaging technologies
Research Area(s): Global Mental Health; Community Psychiatry
Research Area(s): Acute Internal Medicine, AKI, Liver disease, Gut, Public health
Lloydminster, SK
Research Area(s): Preanalytical Process Improvements, High-Volume Chemistry Tests, Bio-markers, Endocrine Testing
Research Area(s): The relationship between Adult Attachment and Mental Health; The relationship between Religion/Spirituality and Mental Health; The relationship between Humanities (Art, Music, Literature, Religion) and Resilience/Well-being
Research Area(s): Early Psychosis; Adult Attachment Style; Social Anxiety
Research Area(s): Psychotropic Prescription Practice; Forensic Assessments
Regina, SK
As Southwest Division Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Adewumi provides leadership for local clinical initiatives under the Southwest umbrella.
Mental Health and Addiction Services
Research Area(s): Neurodevelopmental disorders; Epilepsy; Autism; Clinical audit; Psychopathology and incarceration; Major mental illness and Economic burden
Clinical Director - Dr. Marc Baltzan Provincial Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory at St. Paul's Hospital Provincial Clinical Co-Lead Genomics
Research Area(s): Research in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics: Conducting research to advance the understanding of HLA, transplant immunology, and related fields; Novel Biomarkers for Graft Rejection: Investigate new molecular or cellular biomarkers, such as non-HLA antibodies or microRNAs, to predict and monitor graft rejection more accurately.; HLA Epitope Matching Algorithms: Develop and validate advanced algorithms for HLA epitope matching that consider both antibody-verified and unverified eplets to improve donor-recipient compatibility and reduce post-transplant complications.; Machine Learning in HLA Antibody Prediction: Apply machine learning models to predict the likelihood and severity of donor-specific antibody (DSA) formation based on pre-transplant risk factors, including genetic and clinical data.
AG has a background in forensic psychiatry, along with master's degrees in psychological medicine, drug use and addictions and health law. He has trained mental health professionals across North America and Africa, including clinicians at the World Health Organization's Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health.
Director, Pediatric Rheumatology Research Laboratory
Research Area(s): Antinuclear antibodies; Arthritis; Autoimmunity; Childhood arthritis; Collagen; Disease prevention; Early origins of disease; Rheumatic diseases; Pediatrics; Uveitis
Research Area(s): Movement Disorders
Enhanced Skills in Primary Care for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Research Area(s): Autism, Developmental Differences, TBI, Equity
Research Area(s): Infectious Disease Diagnostics; Virology; Emerging Pathogens
Research Area(s): Nerve-tumor interface; Nerve regeneration; Cancer biology; Self-renewing resident macrophage in the nervous system.
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Research Area(s): Cancer cell biology; Tumour biology; Cancer treatment development
Research Area(s): Adult Neurology/Behavioural Neurology
Research Area(s): Pulmonary immunity by vaccination; Messenger RNA delivery systems and vaccines; Mucosal vaccines and adjuvants; Thermostable vaccines
Research Area(s): Molecular Virology, Virus-host Interactions, Innate Immune Response
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Research Area(s): Population Health; Language, Culture and Health; Integrative oncology; Cancer patients and their families’ quality of life ; Health services utilization and self-care; Health of francophones living in minority situation; Cancer survivorship and chronic disease management; Community engagement
Research Area(s): Childhood and Adult Immunization; Bloodborne Infections
Research Area(s): Pulmonary inflammation & inflammasome assembly; Hyperinflammatory pulmonary diseases; Cystic fibrosis; Molecular biophysics; Quantitative analyses; Cell biology; Cell signaling
Research Area(s): Vaccine Preventable Diseases; Immunizations; Medical Education (communication skills, development of clinical reasoning)
Research Area(s): General Pediatrics; Eating Disorders; Medical Education; Stewardship; Quality Improvement
Research Area(s): Spirituality/Religion in Psychiatry; Maternal Mental Health; Mood Instability
As a Saskatoon Area Department Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Baillod provides leadership for local outpatient clinical initiatives.
Research Area(s): Neuroprotection; Clinical drug trials
Research Area(s): Bronchoprovocation (airway challenges with direct and indirect stimuli); Airway Inflammation (sputum and exhaled nitric oxide techniques); Clinical Trials (Phase II, III, IV - preomindantly Allergic Asthma)
Research Area(s): Use of renal denervation in loin pain hematuria; Bone health in CKD; Home dialysis
Research Area(s): Transcription, Nuclear speckles, TCERG1, C/EBPalpha, Gene expression, Nuclear compartmentation
Professor
Research Area(s): Inflammatory Arthritis and Comorbidity ; Rheumatology Disease Epidemiology and Health Services Access ; Medical Education
Research Area(s): Indigenous health; Quality indicators for patient care.
Research Area(s): Health sciences
Research Area(s): Evolutionary developmental biology; Physical anthropology; Craniofacial/dental morphology and evolution
Research Area(s): Paraphilic disorders; atypical sexual interest; neurobiology; recidivism; psychopharmacology; antiandrogen treatment; risk assessment; forensic psychiatry;
Research Area(s): Addiction medicine; Emergency medicine; Alcohol use disorder; Alcohol withdrawal
Director of the Provincial Cardiovascular Genetics Program
Director of the Provincial Cardiovascular Genetics Program
Research Area(s): Spasticity; Motor Neuron Disease
Research Area(s): Competency Based Medical Education; Learning Analytics; Social Media; Online Educational Resources; Medical Simulation
Research Area(s): Stroke Neurology; General Neurology
Research Area(s): Skeletal development and evolution; molecular genetics; synchrotron imaging; 3D bioprinted tissue engineering; Comparative transcriptomics
Research Area(s): Gas Exchange; Pulmonary Function; Knowledge Translation
Saskatoon, SK
Research Area(s): Global health and the One Health approach; Epidemiology and control of infectious diseases: Ebola Virus Disease, vaccine-preventable diseases, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS,.; Prevention of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and the promotion of physical activity; Complex adaptive systems and systems thinking
Research Area(s): Development of novel animal models and vaccine candidates for emerging and re-emerging viruses; Viral transmission and ecology of rodent-borne viruses; Viral vaccine development for respiratory viruses
Research Area(s): General and Interventional Cardiology
Research Area(s): General Cardiology; Electrophysiology
Research Area(s): General Cardiology; Cardiac Rehabilitation; Preventive Cardiology; Quality Improvement; Heart Failure; Public Health
Research Area(s): Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the cellular and molecular interactions leading to the activation and differentiation of distinct T cell subsets.
Research Area(s): Prehospital Care; Medical Simulation; Medical Education
Research Area(s): Neonatal Neurology; Neonatal Seizures; Epilepsy
BHC Head
Research Area(s): Indigenous Health; Indigenous Policymaking Models; Public Policy; Public Administration; Ethics; Community-Led Research
Research Area(s): Excitotoxicity-induced neuronal apoptosis in stroke and neurodegenerative diseases; Lipid rafts and neuronal receptor signaling and trafficking; Lipid Neurobiology; Brain insulin signaling pathways; Designing bioactive short peptides; Cellular and molecular mechanisms of traumatic brain injury/concussion; Biomarkers of traumatic brain injury/concussion
Research Area(s): Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism; Gastrointestinal Physiology; Pathophysiology of Metabolic Disorders
Research Area(s): Pediatric Heart Failure; Heterotaxy Syndrome; Incidence and predictive factors associated with right ventricular dysfunction following left ventricular assist device implantation; Psychiatric Disorders following ventricular assist device implantation in pediatric patients
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Nutrigenomics; Molecular geontology; Genome organization
As a Regina Area Department Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Chukwujekwu provides leadership for local clinical initiatives.
Research Area(s): Transgender Health; Medication Abortion; Community Partnerships
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Popular culture and mental illness; Mood and anxiety disorders in adolescents; Adolescent anorexia nervosa
Clinical Biochemist, Clinical Biochemistry Area Lead for Saskatoon Co-director of the Clinical Biochemistry Post-Doctoral Program
Research Area(s): Baseline measurements and trends over time of health inequities in Saskatchewan with comparative data from other parts of Canada and internationally.; Health equity audits and quality improvement interventions to improve equity in various parts of the health system such as immunization coverage, chronic disease management and prevention, and primary data collection on the social determinants of health in all parts of the health system to monitor inequities, set health service delivery improvement targets and improve the determinants of health themselves.; "Connecting to care" projects to bring the right mix of intersectoral services to people who are frequent users of support services to improve their determinants of health and appropriateness of care.; Public health systems and services research; population health intervention research
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Clinical Microbiologist
Research Area(s): Vascular Surgery; Clinical Quality Improvement; Carotid Atherosclerosis; Stroke; Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm; Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease
Research Area(s): Public Health; Physical Activity; Healthy Cities; Machine Learning; Human Activity Recognition
Research Area(s): Placental development; Regulation of uterine function during pregnancy; Cell-extracellular environment signalling; Stress protein signalling
Research Area(s): COPD; Exercise Physiology in Health and Disease; Pulmonary Rehabilitation; Knowledge Transfer
Research Area(s): Social Psychology
Director of Pediatric Research
Research Area(s): Asthma Inflammation; Metabolomics; Biomarkers of Asthma; Airway Viral infections; Eosinophils
Research Area(s): Development of animal models and vaccines for emerging viruses; Structure-based coronavirus vaccine design
Research Area(s): Bone aging, adaptation and disease 3D Imaging Synchrotron Science
Research Area(s): Main research interest is radiation dose and methods of reducing radiation exposure to radiosensitive organs from diagnostic imaging
Research Area(s): Radon; Maternal and Child Health; Communicable Diseases
Research Area(s): Dementia; Medical education
Research Area(s): Precision Medicine; Tissue Engineering; 3D Cancer Models; Tumor Microenvironment; Chemotherapy Testing
Research Area(s): Tumour microenvironments; Cancer stem cells; 3D tissue engineering
Research Area(s): Cancer; Metastasis; Signal Transduction; PI3K/PTEN Pathway
Research Area(s): Breast Cancer; Metastasis; Drug Sensitivities; Metastasis Suppressors
Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence ; Digital Pathology ; Diagnostics in GI/Liver pathology; Applications of business related, negotiation and marketing strategies to laboratory medicine
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Reduction of radiation dose related to CT scanning.
Research Area(s): Complementary and Integrative Health; Health Services; Knowledge Mobilization; Massage Therapy; Patient Safety and Adverse Events
Research Area(s): Health Literacy; Patient and Family Engagement; Health Services Improvement for Persons with Advanced Illness
Research Area(s): Microbial Genomics; Genomic Epidemiology; Next-Generation Sequencing; Bioinformatics; Biofilms; Point-of-Care Testing; Salmonella; SARS-CoV-2; Syphilis
Research Area(s): Quality improvement in Gyn oncology; Immunotherapy in gynecologic cancer; Primary HPV self-sampling in underserved populations
Research Area(s): New treatment for ovarian cancer
Research Area(s): General Cardiology; Echocardiography
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Neonatology; PDA; Neonatal Neuro-Critical Care
Research Area(s): Hematopathology; Development and quality assurance for predictive biomarkers
Research Area(s): Longitudinal Data Analysis; Measurement Errors and Missing Data; Copulas; Statistical/Machine Learning; Dynamic Data Science; Meta-Analysis; Time Series Analysis; Survival Analysis; Biostatistics
Research Area(s): Pediatric Neurology, Epilepsy, Angelman Syndrome
Research Area(s): Transfusion Medicine and Trauma Resuscitation; Pre-hospital stroke Alerts; Mortality associated with RVMI
Research Area(s): Breast tumor kinase (BRK) and two other BRK family members, FRK and SRMS
As the Northeast Area Department Lead for the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Chukwujekwu provides leadership for local clinical initiatives.
Lead, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program
As the Southeast Area Department Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Asa provides leadership for local clinical initiatives.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division Head
Research Area(s): Palliative Care and Frailty
Research Area(s): Placental Growth Factor (PlGF) Research Program; Mitochondrial Dysfunction & Placental Insufficiency Collaboration
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Glaucoma
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Continuous EEG in Neurocritical Care and After Cardiac Arrest; Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus; Acute Stroke
Research Area(s): Gaps in the provision of health care delivery to people with spinal cord injury who are living in the community; Falls in people with amputations; Undergraduate medical education
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Residency Teaching Coordinator (Regina)
Dr. Gordon is a medical oncologist that joined the Saskatoon Cancer Centre December 2024 after 13 years of practice at CancerCare Manitoba. She has been actively involved in Medical Education since the beginning of her career, 1st as site director and post graduate medical education lead, than as undergraduate medical oncology course lead, and finally as program director for the University of Manitoba, Rady faculty of Medicine. She is currently the Program Director for the Medical Oncology Residency Program and an Associate Professor with the Department of Oncology.
Research Area(s): Pediatric neurocritical care; Noninvasive cerebral monitoring; Prehospital management; Cerebral autoregulation
Research Area(s): Rural Family Medicine; Physician Recruitment & Retention; Wait Times to Consultant Care
Research Area(s): Molecular mechanisms of heart injury triggered by oxidative stress and its protection from contractile dysfunction; Use of the pharmaco-proteomics approach in pathological and physiological heart studies; Novel intracellular function of matrix metalloproteinase-2 in heart injury; Posttranslational modifications of contractile proteins triggered by oxidative stress and their role the injury
Research Area(s): Education research centred around teaching clinical ultrasound.
Research Area(s): blood-derived biomaterials; viral inactivation of plasma and its fractionation (6 patents); platelet cancer interactions ; platelet microparticles ; microbiome
Research Area(s): General Neurology/EMG
As a Regina Area Department Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Haque provides leadership for local clinical initiatives.
Research Area(s): Student Learning; Implementation of active learning strategies to promote student engagement
Research Area(s): Craniofacial Development; Role of signaling molecules in craniofacial cartilages
We use the synchrotron as well as cell and molecular biology techniques to examine the role of metals in stroke, MS and common neurodegenerative diseases.
Research Area(s): Applications of synchrotron technology to medicine
Research Area(s): Breast pathology; Workload measurement in pathology; Quality assurance; Global health and education; Planetary health
Research Area(s): Plant cell cycle regulation, protein ubiquitination, female gametogenesis, seed aging and vigor, abiotic stress
Research Area(s): Quality Improvement
Research Area(s): Genetic regulation of the pckA gene in Escherichia coli.; Structure and regulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in E. coli.; Regulatory roles of calcium in bacteria.
Regina Division Head
Research Area(s): Multiple myeloma and plasma cell disorders; Lymphoid malignancy (Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia); Medical Education; Cancer and thrombosis; Hereditary angioedema
Research Area(s): Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology and Clinical Informatics
Research Area(s): Acute kidney injury; Frailty; Mortality and morbidity outcomes in renal disease; Critical care nephrology; Renal transplantation
Saint Paul's Medical Imaging Head
Research Area(s): General Cardiology; Echocardiography
Research Area(s): General and Interventional Cardiogy
Research Area(s): General and Interventional Cardiology
Research Area(s): Vascular surgeon, endovascular specialist
Research Area(s): Topics related to the field of cytopathology; Recently presented projects include LSIL + on Pap smears and atypical urine cytology
Research Area(s): Ischemia reperfusion Injury – role of oxygen free radicals and antioxidants in various clinical diseases including heart failure and atherosclerosis; Quality Care and Patient Safety; Laboratory Utilization in Healthcare; Medical Error & Disclosure of Adverse Events; Total Quality Management in Laboratory Medicine
College of Medicine Advancement
Research Area(s): Macrophage behaviour in health and disease, neuroimmunology, oxidized phosphatidylcholines as mediators of tissue injury, multiple sclerosis, and aging.
Research Area(s): Mycobacterial virulence factors, TB host-pathogen interactions, TB vaccine and drug development, TB animal modeling, TB aerobiology
Research Area(s): Postmortem Toxicology; Forensic Toxicology; Novel Psychoactive Substances
Research Area(s): Stroke; Clinical Quality Improvement
Research Area(s): Molecular microbiology, molecular genetics, and bacteriology
Research Area(s): Identification of genes and small RNAs important for virulence of bacterial pathogens; The regulation of antigenic variation and bacterial persistence; Determining the role of bacteriophage in horizontal gene transfer contributing to bacterial persistence in endemic populations; Exploring the importance of bacteriophage in protective immunity
Research Area(s): Microbiology Lab Utilization; Infection Control and Hospital Surveillance; Antimicrobial Stewardship; Lab Biosafety; TB Diagnostics; Knowledge Synthesis
Research Area(s): Host-Pathogen Interactions; Bacterial Pathogenesis; Molecular Genetics; Nutritional Immunity; Bacteriology; Metal Ion Homeostasis
Research Area(s): Medical Education; Renal Imaging and Biopsies
Professor
Research Area(s): Antimicrobial resistance, Cell division, Sexually transmitted infections, International health, Molecular technologies for microbial diagnostics
Research Area(s): Sleep-Disordered Breathing
Research Area(s): Effects of acute stress on cognition and synaptic plasticity. Neurodevelopmental models of severe psychiatric illness
Research Area(s): Respiratory Immunology and Inflammation (pathogenesis); Allergy; Asthma; Immunotherapeutics; Dendritic cells; Regulatory T cells; Th2 cells; Neutrophils
Research Area(s): Vasoactive gaseous mediators (carbon monoxide, nitric oxide etc.) and cardiovascular pathologies; Particularly we are investigating the role of the heme oxygenase system in in hypertension, diabetes (types-1 and -2), and obesity.
Research Area(s): Functional Medicine; Medical Anthropology; Integrative Medicine; Medical Acupuncture
Research Area(s): HCV interaction with the host miRNA machinery
Research Area(s): Pediatric Epilepsy, Neurophysiology, Epilepsy Surgery, Genetic Epilepsy, Neuroneonatology, Ketogenic Diet, Drug-Resistant Epilepsy, Autism and epilepsy, intensive care neuromonitoring, EEG Trends
Research Area(s): Our research projects focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of epithelial solute transport and the pathological consequences of transport failure
Research Area(s): Health services research; Innovative health care models; Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD); Health care access for individuals living with gastrointestinal and liver conditions; Wellness and motivation of health care providers
Research Area(s): rural health; primary health care; rural health services for persons living with dementia; dementia epidemiology
Research Area(s): Behavioural neuroscience (learning and memory, affective behaviours, stress); Epilepsy (animal models, EEG recordings, cells & circuits, and therapeutics); Neuroanatomy (circuit mapping and manipulations)
Research Area(s): Nasopharyngeal cancer patients; Breast Cancer; Lymphoma
Research Area(s): Oxyradicals in cardiovascular diseases and diabetes; Flaxseed and its components in cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Research Area(s): Evaluation of multimedia resources for health professionals ; Use of technology in medical teaching/learning; Simulation; Educational games ; Curriculum design; Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Self-directed learning ; Educational Technology; Faculty Development; Social Accountability in medical schools
Regina, SK
Research Area(s): Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Pulmonary Hypertension
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Yorkton, SK
Research Area(s): Multiple Sclerosis; Mobility
Research Area(s): Collaborative research projects in pediatric cancers with Canadian Pediatric Hematology/Oncology ; Pediatric Neuro-oncology; Cancer predisposition
Research Area(s): Quality Improvement; Acute Kidney Injury; Fluid Overload; Nephrotic Syndrome; Dialysis
Professor
Research Area(s): General Cardiology; Electrophysiology
Saskatoon Co- Division Head
Research Area(s): Hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders; Venous thrombosis
Research Area(s): Interventional Pulmonary Medicine; Lung cancer diagnosis and staging ; Pleural disease; Palliative care; Medical education
Research Area(s): Biochemistry and molecular biological studies of the Lyme Disease spirochete Borrelia Burgdorferi.
Research Area(s): Viral Immunology, HIV-1, Humanized mice, Interferon-alpha
Research Area(s): Anatomy education; Teaching-learning interactions; Instructional methods/pedagogy/andragogy; Conversation analysis
Research Area(s): Retina and Vitreous
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Research Area(s): General Pediatrics; Pediatric Pain Management; Patient and Family-Centered Care; Interprofessional Collaboration
Research Area(s): Undergraduate Medical Education; Family Medicine Career Choice Decisions
Research Area(s): Technology-assisted learning, Active pedagogy, Student engagement
Saskatoon Co-Area Lead
Academic Background: Physiology (BSc.), Pathology (MSc.), Toxicology (PhD)
Research Area(s): Water, Health, and Well-Being; Indigenous-Centered Research; Risk Assessment, Management, and Communication; Arts-Based Knowledge Translation and Mobilization
Research Area(s): Health Economic Evaluation; Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): Total body hypothermia as a method of treatment of Neonatal encepholopathy; Predictors of neurological outcomes in neinates with hypoxia ischemic encepholopathy; Traumatic brain injury
Research Area(s): Total body hypothermia as a method of treatment of Neonatal encepholopathy; Predictors of neurological outcomes in neinates with hypoxia ischemic encepholopathy; Traumatic brain injury
Research Area(s): Quality Improvement; Addictions Medicine; Medical Education
Research Area(s): Computer Vision Models in Medicine; Explainable AI Methods (XAI) in Medicine; Reinforcement Learning Methods in Health care
Research Area(s): Quality Improvement; Medical Education; Electronic Medical Records
Research Area(s): Quality Improvement; Cognitive Biases in Health Care Decision-Making; Equity in Health Care; Infective Endocarditis
Research Area(s): End of life including Medical Assistance in Dying; Cognitive disorders including dementia and postoperative delirium in the elderly; Epidemiology particularly related to aging
Vice Dean of Research, Biomedical Sciences
Research Area(s): HIV restriction factors, DNA deaminases, Mutagenesis, Enzyme mechanisms
Research Area(s): Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS); Medical Education
Division Lead of Ophthalmology in Regina
Research Area(s): The role of intracellular signaling molecules in leukocyte recruitment and transendothelial migration
Research Area(s): Interstitial Lung Disease
Research Area(s): Political Economy of Global Health: Critical approaches ; Activism and social movements; Nicaragua: The politics of health and crisis; Extractivism and community resistance (Latin America); Gender and health (including midwifery, gender-based violence, women’s mental health); Opioid crises: Socio-economic contexts ; Alternatives: Activist scholarship; Community-based, participatory, and arts-informed research; Transformative pedagogies; Integrated knowledge translation
Research Area(s): Trauma; Arthroplasty; Medical Teaching and Writing
Research Area(s): Irreversible Electroporation (NanoKnife): Clinical program and research; Pancreatic Cancer; Immuno-oncology; Kidney Transplantation; Research in machine cold perfusion preservation of kidneys for transplant; Organ donor awareness; Medical Education; Tumor Ablation Technologies; Biomedical Engineering
Research Area(s): Oculoplastic and orbital surgery; Cataract and refractive surgery; Medical education
Research Area(s): Hematology; Lymphoma; Cellular therapy; Stem cell transplantation
Research Area(s): The determinants of Indigenous health and wellness; Health systems research in relation to Indigenous populations; Promotion and monitoring of Indigenous wellness and resilience
Research Area(s): Measures of student workload and curricular footprint of courses; Program evaluation: the use of grouped self-assessments for measuring the outcomes of interventions; Effective teaching methods especially cooperative learning, experiential learning; Integration of basic medical sciences into the medical school curriculum, especially the determination of relevant content
Research Area(s): Suicide; Metabolic Syndrome; Clozapine
Research Area(s): Stem Cell Transplant; CAR T; Immunotherapy
Research Area(s): Lung Function; Sleep-Disordered Breathing
Research Area(s): Diabetes - Type 1 & 2; Hypoglycemia; Quality Improvement
Research Area(s): personal oncogenomics; molecular classification, endometrial cancer; ovarian cancer
Saskatoon, SK
Research Area(s): Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder - basic and clinical studies; Adult ADHD in forensic patients. Psychopharmacology in forensic patients; Spirituality and religiosity in forensic patients and mental health.
Research Area(s): Neuro-Ophthalmology
Dr. Mendes-Silva is an assistant professor in biological psychiatry.
Research Area(s): Genetics; Genome editing; Mitochondrial genetics; Drosophila genetics; Mitochondrial biology; Biomarkers; Cellular and molecular biology; Neuropsychopharmacology; Biosensors; Mood disorders; Psychosis spectrum disorders; Late-onset disorders; Translational medicine
Director & Medical Imaging Head, Prince Albert
Managing Director, Centre for Integrative Medicine
Research Area(s): Integrative Health and Medicine ; Evidence-Based Medicine ; Change Leadership ; Innovations in Medical Education ; Transdisciplinary Scholarship ; Organizational Learning ; Social Entrepreneurship
Saskatchewan MS Clinical Research Chair
Research Area(s): Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology; Neurovirology; RNA Binding Proteins; Autoimmunity
Research Area(s): Environmental Toxicology, Molecular Genetics, Stress Biology, Aging
Research Area(s): Developmental genetics; Cardiovascular development and disease; Cardiac physiology
Research Area(s): Host-Pathogen interactions, Synthesis and degradation of Glycosaminoglycans
Director of the Stem Cell Transplant Program at the Saskatoon Cancer Centre - Provincial Disease Site Group Chair for Myeloid Malignancies - Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
Research Area(s): Rural health service delivery for individuals with dementia and their caregivers; Primary healthcare and chronic disease management models for dementia care in rural and remote settings; Integrated knowledge translation and exchange
Research Area(s): Anesthesia; Peri Op Medicine; Chronic Pain Management
Research Area(s): Men's Health; Medical Education
Research Area(s): Diabetes; Osteoporosis; Growth
Prince Albert, SK
Research Area(s): Social epidemiology; Population health intervention; Maternal and child health ; Health and place ; Community-university research collaborations
Research Area(s): Tuberculosis; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Antibiotics; Persistence; Single-Cell Imaging; Microfluidics; 3D Microtissue Models; Organoids; Phenotypic Heterogeneity
Research Area(s): Heat Shock Proteins
Research Area(s): Evolution of vertebrate respiratory and cardiovascular control systems; Cardiovascular and respiratory responses to hypoxia; Control of periodic breathing
Research Area(s): Infectious Disease Diagnostics, Molecular Diagnostics, Virology, Microbiology Lab Utilization, Diagnostics barriers in rural areas
Research Area(s): Sexually transmitted and blood borne infections; Tuberculosis; Social epidemiology and determinants of health; Population health intervention research; Indigenous health; Clinical quality improvement; Epidemiology
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Lloydminster, SK
As a Northwest Area Department Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Ohiosimuan provides leadership for local clinical initiatives.
Research Area(s): Transfusion Medicine
Research Area(s): Protein structure and function, metal transport in the cell, metal-binding proteins and cancer, protein NMR
Research Area(s): Breast cancer
Allan Blair Cancer Centre 4101 Dewdney Avenue Regina, SK S4T 7t1 p: 306-766-2213
Research Area(s): Teratology; FAS
Research Area(s): Gene Therapy for Long Term Myocardial Protection; Hypertension; Atherosclerosis; Oxidative stress; Hyperhomoysteinemia
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Antibody-Secreting Cells (aka plasma cells); Hematopoiesis; Autoimmunity; Inflammation; Aging; Gene Expression
Research Area(s): Psychopharmacology, Mood Disorders, Personality
Saskatoon, SK
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Research Area(s): Disruptive behaviours (ADHD, ODD and conduct); Stimulant medications; Behavioural observations of ADHD in the classroom setting
Research Area(s): General and Interventional Cardiology
Dr. Russell Murphy is the current Head of the Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery in the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.
Research Area(s): Diabetes; Insulin Resistance; Preventative Medicine; Resource Utilization; System Improvement
Research Area(s): Pediatrics
Research Area(s): School food programs; Nutritional health inequities; Community-based and participatory research; Food systems and food security; Health promotion
Dr. Vivian R Ramsden, a Registered Nurse, is a Distinguished Professor & Director of the Research Division, Department of Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She is also an Honorary Member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Research Area(s): As a participatory health researcher in primary health care settings, she is a passionate advocate of authentic engagement, co-creation and action research. Primary health care research also involves strategies to engage individuals, organizations and communities in identifying and addressing locally-relevant issuesthat impact health and wellness. Thus, in collaboration with several Indigenous communities in northern Saskatchewan and a number in South India, she is engaged in research that is co-created, co-designed, co-developed, co-presented and co-authored with the communities.
Research Area(s): Retina and Vitreous
Research Area(s): Inflammatory Arthritis & Sleep Disorders; Access and Models of Care; Epidemiology of rheumatic disorders; Inflammatory vasculitis
Research Area(s): Indigenous health; Nephrology; Quality improvement
Saskatoon, SK
Research Area(s): Quality Improvement and Patient Safety; Toxicology and Pharmacology
Research Area(s): Delivery of care in under resourced and underprivileged populations Pediatric nephrology
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Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Saskatoon, SK
Research Area(s): Molecular diagnostics and subtyping of infectious diseases; Bacterial and viral genomic epidemiology; Foodborne outbreak investigation using whole-genome sequencing
Research Area(s): Molecular biology of toxin secretion by Gram-negative bacteria; Structure, function and biogenesis of the outer membrane
Research Area(s): Adult Neurology/Stroke Clinic
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Research Area(s): Home-based dialysis therapies; Quality improvement
Research Area(s): Childhood Cancer Survivorship and Late Effects; Research in Adolescents and Young Adults; Collaborative research projects in pediatric cancers with Canadian Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Centers; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinical Practice Guidelines ; Quality Improvement Projects in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology ; Supportive Care in Pediatric Oncology
Saskatoon, SK
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Medical Director Saskatoon Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Medical Director Saskatoon Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Research Area(s): Perinatal transfusion medicine; Pediatric benign hematology; Sickle cell disease
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Regina, SK
Research Area(s): Mitochondria, energy and metal ion homeostasis, signaling, human disease
Acting Department Head, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Research Area(s): Acyltransferase, Triglyceride, Lipid droplet, Obesity, Diabetes
Departmental UGME Program Director and Staff Radiologist
Research Area(s): Vaccine development, Prion diseases, Kinome analysis, Infectious disease
Office of the Physician Assistant Studies
Research Area(s): Immunometabolism; Obesity; Lipid metabolism; Diabetes; Stress biology
Research Area(s): Vascular development, angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, zebrafish and mouse genetics, in vivo imaging, cell biology
Research Area(s): Clinical Trial; Population Health; Breast Cancer; Gastrointestinal Cancers
Research Area(s): Undergraduate & Postgraduate Medical Education; Quality Improvement; History of Hemophilia Care
Research Area(s): All aspects of pediatric imaging.; Innovative imaging technology, such as Diffraction Enhanced Imaging (DEI) at the Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron).; Radiation dose reduction and effects of radiation on children.
College of Medicine Advancement
Research Area(s): Autoimmune Skin Disease; Immunobullous Skin Diseases; Biologic Therapies
Research Area(s): Post transplant complications including infections and GVHD, Outpatient autologous stem cell transplants
Research Area(s): Environmental Health; Healthy Built Environments; Disaster and Emergency Planning; Lessons Learned and Implications for Schools and Community Engagement in Addressing Inequities Illuminated by the Pandemic
Research Area(s): Emergency Flow
Research Area(s): The flagellum secretion system in Helicobacter pylori, and chromatin modifying systems in higher eukaryotes.
Research Area(s): Health Services Research; Learning Health Systems; Patient-reported Outcomes; Patient-oriented Research ; Qualitative and Mixed-methods; Evidence Synthesis
Research Area(s): Learning Disabilities; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD); Caregiver stress
Research Area(s): Medical Education; Media Influences on Children; Vitamin D Supplementation
Research Area(s): Critical Care medicine; Quality improvement and health outcomes research in Critical care medicine, examining discharge and transfer from Critical Care; Acute respiratory distress syndrome and its management (mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation); Acute-on-chronic liver failure, critically ill cirrhotics
Research Area(s): DNA vaccines; Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1); Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
Research Area(s): General Cardiology; Echocardiography
Research Area(s): Autoimmune Diseases; Systemic sclerosis; Lupus; Age-related macular degeneration
Pediatric Intensivist, Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) Medical Director and Division Head Pediatric Intensive Care, (SHA) Pediatric Transport Medical Director, (SHA)
Research Area(s): Blood Pressure in the PICU; Pediatric Transport Medicine; Noninvasive Ventilation; Virtual Care; Robotics; Pediatric Critical Care
Research Area(s): Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Randomized Controlled Trials; Systematic Reviews; Knowledge Translation
Research Area(s): Osmotic regulation of ion channels and vasopressin secretion; Ca2+ channel targeting and function in neuroendocrine secretion; Mechanisms and significance of gliotransmitter secretion
Research Area(s): Microbe-host interactions: molecules in symbiosis and pathogenesis, Plasmid-encoded biosynthetic gene clusters, bacterially produced small molecules
Saskatoon, SK
Research Area(s): Healthcare Research; Patient-Oriented Research; Realist Synthesis and Evaluation; Rural and Remote Health
Research Area(s): Breast Cancer Screening
Research Area(s): Regenerative medicine; Cell therapies; Stem cells; Organoids; Neuroscience; Pediatric white matter disease; Adult neurodegenerative disease; Glia; Astrocytes; Microglia; Oligodendrocytes; Health care equity
Research Area(s): General Internal Medicine
Research Area(s): CNS tumors: molecular markers and targeted therapies; Epilepsy: brain banking and clinicopathologic correlations including effect of antiepileptic drugs; Neurodegenerations: brain banking and movement disorders; Neuromuscular diseases: muscular dystrophies, metabolic and other myopathies & neuropathies related to unique local populations
Research Area(s): Nerve Injury and Repair Mechanisms; Role of Neurotrophic Molecules
Research Area(s): Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus; Pediatric Ocular Oncology
Research Area(s): cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurophysiology, gut-brain axis, chronic diseases (metabolic, genetic), live imaging
Research Area(s): Interstitial lung disease
Dr. Tian is a specialist in general internal medicine and addiction medicine.
Research Area(s): Infectious Disease Diagnostics; Molecular Diagnostics; Virology; Microbiology Lab Utilization; Diagnostics barriers in rural areas
Research Area(s): Virology and molecular biology
Research Area(s): Multiple Sclerosis; Spinal Cord Injuries; Regenerations of CNS
Research Area(s): CNS tumors: molecular markers and targeted therapies; Epilepsy: brain banking and clinicopathologic correlations including effect of antiepileptic drugs; Neurodegenerations: brain banking and movement disorders; Neuromuscular diseases: muscular dystrophies, metabolic and other myopathies & neuropathies related to unique local populations
Research Area(s): Immunization and vaccine preventable diseases; HIV; Public health systems and services; Mental health and addictions
Research Area(s): Adult Neurology/Stroke Clinic; MS
As a Saskatoon Area Department Lead of the Provincial Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Wanson provides leadership for local inpatient clinical initiatives.
Research Area(s): Molecular mechanisms of DNA repair and mutagenesis; Signal transduction through K63 ubiquitination; Genetic toxicology and carcinogenesis
Research Area(s): Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; Indigenous Health and Wellness; Animal models of diseases and disorders; Intergenerational Stress; Obesity; Child Health and Development
Research Area(s): Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; Indigenous Health and Wellness; Animal models of diseases and disorders; Intergenerational Stress; Obesity; Child Health and Development
Research Area(s): Pediatrics; MSK/Sports Medicine; Medical Education
Research Area(s): Regenerative medicine; Cell therapies; Stem cells; Organoids; Neuroscience; Pediatric white matter disease ; Adult neurodegenerative disease ; Glia; Astrocytes; Microglia; Oligodendrocytes,; Health care equity
Research Area(s): Molecular regulation of embryonic cartilage and differentiation
Research Area(s): Endocrinology (obesity and metabolism); Pancreatic islet cell biology; Peptide hormone biosynthesis, processing, secretion, and clearance
Research Area(s): Structure, function and inhibitory studies on key proteins involved in DNA repair and in D-alanylation of teichoic acids in Gram-positive bacteria.
Research Area(s): Cancers, Genetic disorders, Genome stability, DNA repair, Innate immunity, Helicase
Research Area(s): Lipid Metabolism, Mitochondrial Biology, Mass Spectrometry, Multiomics, and Stress Responses
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