Six Faculty Members to receive Citation Award

At the Celebration of Excellence event in February 2010, the Cumming School of Medicine Awards and Recognition Committee introduced the 10,000 Citations Award. The award honours faculty members who have accumulated more than 10,000 citations over the course of their career. Less than 0.1 per cent of researchers will accumulate 10,000 citations.  In 2015, six faculty members reached this milestone:  Todd Anderson, Andrew Demchuk, Bill Ghali, Michael Hill, Bruce Pike and Keith Sharkey.

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Dr. Todd Anderson | Director, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta; Professor and Head, Department of Cardiac Sciences.

Dr. Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in the assessment and treatment of endothelial dysfunction as well as cardiovascular risk factors.  Dr. Anderson, an interventional cardiologist by training, trained at the University of Calgary and Harvard Medical School, and has been an educator and researcher in addition to doctor right from the onset of his career.  He is well published, including having authored several landmark papers that have laid important groundwork in the area of non-invasive biomarkers for atherosclerosis.

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Dr. Andrew Demchuk | Professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences; Stroke Neurologist and Director of the Calgary Stroke Program, Alberta Health Services; member, Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Dr. Demchuk’s primary research interests focus on vascular imaging, where he is trying to establish target populations for new stroke treatments by selecting patients based on imaging tests performed in the emergency setting. In addition to his research and clinical activities, Dr. Demchuk is the past board chair for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, NWT, and Nunavut and member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Stroke Consortium.

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Dr. William Ghali | Scientific Director, O'Brien Institute for Public Health; Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences

Dr. Ghali is a General Internist (MD, University of Calgary; FRCPC, Queen’s University) with methodological training in health services research and epidemiology (MPH) from the Boston University School of Public Health. He recently completed two terms as a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research, and has also been funded as a Senior Health Scholar by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions. Dr. Ghali has held millions of dollars of peer-reviewed research funding from various agencies, has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has been the recipient of numerous local, national, and international awards. Dr. Ghali is involved in a number of research initiatives, with specific focus on interdisciplinary approaches to evaluating and improving health system performance to produce better patient outcomes and improved system efficiency.

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Dr. Michael Hill | Director of the Stroke Unit for the Calgary Stroke Program, Alberta Health Services; Professor, Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Community Health Sciences, Medicine and Radiology; member, Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Dr. Hill’s research interests include stroke thrombolysis, stroke epidemiology, and surveillance and clinical trials. He is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and holds the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta/NWT/Nunavut professorship in Stroke Research. He holds and has held operating and clinical trials grants from the CIHR, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta/NWT/Nunavut and from various industry partners as well as NIH (NINDS).

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Bruce Pike, PhD| Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences; Campus Alberta Innovates Program (CAIP) Chair in Healthy Brain Aging and the Deputy Head (Research) of the Department of Radiology; member, Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Dr. Pike investigates magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods and applications for basic and clinical neuroscience research.  As a primary focus, he detects and measures the physiological modulations that are associated in neuronal activation and inhibition.

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Keith Sharkey, PhD | Professor, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Medicine; Deputy Director, Hotchkiss Brain Institute; member, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases

Dr. Sharkey has pioneered fundamental and translational discoveries in the neural control of the gastrointestinal tract in health and disease. His innovative research has provided significant insights into the etiology and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. He is also an expert in the endocannabinoid system of the gut, and has used his knowledge of cannabinoid biology to advise Health Canada. 

 

The 10,000 Citations Awards will be presented at the Celebration of Excellence event on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016.  All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.