Co-Investigators
Dr. Maria Santana
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Dr. Maria J. Santana is a health services researcher, patient and family-centred care scientist, an Assistant Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Santana has received training in clinical pharmacy, public health, and clinical epidemiology. Her research focuses in developing novel methods to integrate the voice of patients and family caregivers in health care and health service research to improve health and health care. The methods advance person-centred outcome and patient-oriented research. Her research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She is the provincial lead, Patient Engagement for the Alberta Strategy for Patient-oriented Research (https://absporu.ca/patient-engagement-2/) that includes Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER, https://pacerinnovates.ca) program. Also, she leads the patient-reported outcomes research for the P2 group at The Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Calgary. |
Dr. Ronnie Barr
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Dr. Barr is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University where he has held appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics, Pathology and Medicine, and has practised pediatric hematology and oncology since arriving in Canada in 1977. His investigative interests include measuring the health status and health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with cancer, determining the impact of under-nutrition on the outcomes of care for children with cancer in low and middle income countries, and examining the distinctive distribution of cancers in adolescents and young adults. Dr. Barr was recognized for his contributions by appointment to the Order of Canada in November 2020.
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Dr. Kerry Courneya
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Dr. Courneya is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Cancer in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He received his BA (1987) and MA (1989) in physical education from the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and his PhD (1992) in kinesiology from the University of Illinois (Urbana, IL, USA).
Dr. Courneya spent five years as an Assistant/Associate Professor at the University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada) before moving to the University of Alberta in 1997. His research program focuses on the role of physical activity in cancer control including primary prevention, coping with treatments, rehabilitation after treatments, and secondary prevention and survival. His research interests include both the outcomes and determinants of physical activity for cancer control as well as behavior change interventions. |
Dr. Jessica McNeil
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Jessica McNeil, PhD, ACSM-CEP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her research focuses on the study of modifiable risk factors (e.g. exercise, sleep) that impact the energy balance, as well as the prevalence and development of chronic diseases linked to obesity. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research (2016-2020), where she designed and conducted an intervention trial that used commercially-available activity trackers to promote increases in physical activity participation in breast cancer survivors.
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Dr. Fiona Shulte
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Fiona Schulte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology, Division of Psychosocial Oncology in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is also a registered psychologist in the Hematology, Oncology and Transplant Program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Fiona’s research is broadly interested in enhancing the patient and family experience for patients diagnosed with cancer and improving the psychosocial late effects of childhood cancer survivors. Fiona is President of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology. She is also a member of a number of national and international committees focused on improving the care of pediatric and adolescent cancer patients, survivors, and their families including the Children’s Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines psychosocial task force. In addition to the SIOP Young Investigator award, she has been recognized for her research by receiving the 2018 International Psycho-Oncology Society Hiroomi Kawano New Investigator Award and Calgary’s Avenue Magazine Top 40 Under 40 in 2017.
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Dr. Sarah McKillop
Dr. Natalie Logie
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Dr. Natalie Logie is a Radiation Oncologist in the Department of Oncology at Alberta Health Services and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. She received her MD at the University of Alberta (2011) and completed residency at the University of Alberta in Radiation Oncology (2016) followed by fellowship specializing in pediatric radiation oncology and proton therapy at the University of Florida Proton Institute, Jacksonville (2017). She is dual certified radiation oncologist in both Canada (FRCPC) and USA (DABR).
She has an interest in both pediatric and AYA oncology outcomes/survivorship and is active in clinical outcomes research with work published in medical journals and textbooks. Dr. Logie has presented her research at peer-reviewed conferences such as the Pediatric Radiation Oncology Society (PROS) and American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), where she was awarded “Best Poster Session” at PROS in 2017 and “Best of ASTRO” in 2015. Dr. Logie has an interest in residency education serving on the radiation oncology and pediatric oncology residency training program committee. In 2019, she received a resident’s nominated award “Preceptor of the Year”. |
Dr. Ron Sigal
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Dr. Ron Sigal is a Professor of Medicine, Kinesiology, Cardiac Sciences and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is active in clinical medicine, teaching and research.
Dr. Sigal completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at McGill University, and a research fellowship at the McGill Nutrition and Food Sciences Centre. He then completed a Master of Public Health degree and a research fellowship in Epidemiology and Genetics at Harvard University. He has held a Health Senior Scholar award from Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions, and previously a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award. Dr. Sigal’s research focuses on clinical trials related to physical activity, diabetes, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. He has been the Principal Investigator of seven randomized trials evaluating exercise interventions in people with or at risk of diabetes. Dr. Sigal has been the lead author of the guidelines on Physical Activity/Exercise for Diabetes Canada (2003, 2008, 2013, 2018) and the American Diabetes Association (2006), and co-Chair of the writing group for the American Diabetes Association Position Statements on Physical Activity/Exercise and Diabetes in 2010 and 2016. He contributed to the chapters on Chronic Diseases and Cardiometabolic Health for the 2018 “Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans”. |
Dr. Todd Duhamel
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Todd Duhamel, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management and a Principal Investigator in the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St.Boniface General Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre in Winnipeg. His research examines physical activity and health, with a particular focus examining interventions to counteract the development of frailty in people with cardiovascular disease. He has experience examining human physiology using experimental models, case-control, cohort, and randomized intervention trials in high risk populations.
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