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Benediktsson, Hallgrimur

Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.1981
email: benedikt@ucalgary.ca

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Bismar, Tarek

Professor
Deputy Department Head
Rockyview General Hospital
email: tbismar@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Bismar’s research focuses mainly on prostate cancer in two areas; low-intermediate disease whose patients are enrolled in Active surveillance programs with the aim to develop clinical signatures to guide urologist on follow-up protocols, and when to implement definite therapy, thus promoting “Precision Active Surveillance guidelines”. The second area is related to the development of neuroendocrine prostate cancer post hormonal and radiotherapy, where his main objective is to understand the genomic underlying in increased risk for such differentiation post hormonal and radiotherapy.

charbonneau.ucalgary.ca/our-members/our-members/dr-bismar-tarek

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Bromley, Amy

Assistant Professor 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Centre 
phone: 403.944.5055 
email: amy.bromley@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr. Bromley is an anatomical pathologist with special interest in autopsy pathology, patient safety, and quality management.  Other areas of interest include scholarly activity in education, specifically around safe learning environment, adaptable and accessible learning opportunities, and utilizing technology to support learning, as well as documenting scholarly activity within the Department.

Brundler, Marie-Anne

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics
Alberta Children's Hospital
phone: 403.955.7386
email: marie-anne.brundler@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

My primary research interest is in placental pathology. In collaboration with clinical teams and basic researchers we aim to get a better understanding of the impact of inflammatory and vascular placental pathologies on pregnancy outcomes, and child and maternal health. Other research interests include the pathology of immune-mediated gastrointestinal and liver disorders in children, and soft tissue tumors and vascular anomalies in children and adolescents. 

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Carson, Julie

Clinical Associate Professor
Program Director: Medical Microbiology
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3822
email: julie.carson@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

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Chan, Jennifer

Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and
Clinical Neurosciences and Oncology
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower - Heritage Research Innovation Centre
phone: 403.944.4755/403.210.6380
email: jawchan@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Chan is a clinician-scientist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Calgary. As a neuropathologist with a focus in oncology, her clinical expertise is in the diagnostic evaluation of pediatric and adult brain tumours. She has expertise in molecular oncology, and also runs an active research program in brain tumour biology. Her research program applies concepts from developmental neurobiology to further understand mechanisms of disease in brain tumorigenesis. Her lab is examining the intersection of growth factor signaling and intrinsic determinants such as transcription factor function in cell fate determination and proliferation in neural development and cancer.

charbonneau.ucalgary.ca/our-members/our-members/dr-chan-jennifer

Church, Deirdre

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
phone: 403.770.3281
email: deirdre.church@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Senior clinician scientist with expertise in medical microbiology and infectious diseases. Current research is focussed on evaluation, development, and implementation of novel non-culture-based methods for detection and surveillance of infectious diseases and bacterial antimicrobial resistance. Application of these methods include population-based studies of the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance, anaerobes causing invasive infections, STIs, and infections in cancer patients.  She has published more than 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts/conference proceedings, reviews, and book chapters.  She has co-authored and been a Section Editor for several major textbooks including Koneman’s Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7th Ed.), Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, 3rd, 4th and 5th Ed. and Clinical Laboratory Management, 3rd Ed.   

profiles.ucalgary.ca/deirdre-leigh-church

de Koning, Lawrence

Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Cardiac Sciences
Alberta Children's Hospital    
phone: 403-955-2277
email: lawrence.dekoning@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr. Lawrence de Koning completed a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University in 2009, and concurrent postdoctoral fellowships in nutritional epidemiology and clinical chemistry at Harvard University from 2009-2012. He became board certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry in 2013 and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemistry in 2015. Dr. de Koning works as a pediatric clinical biochemist at Alberta Children’s Hospital, a consultant clinical biochemist for Rockyview General Hospital and has numerous clinical and research interests including biomarkers and epidemiology of pediatric and perinatal conditions, laboratory quality improvement, cardiovascular disease, and nutrition.

Gregson, Daniel

Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
phone: 403.770.3762
email: dan.gregson@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr. Gregson is a Medical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases physician whose current research focuses on the incidence and outcomes of bacteremia.  Currently he is involved in two CHIR grants.  One is a randomized study on the treatment of S. aureus bacteremia and the other on the management of ESBL E. coli and K. pneumniae bacteremia. In addition to these he is also a PI on a PRHIS grant to standardize the management of S. aureus bacteremia in the province of Alberta.

profiles.ucalgary.ca/daniel-brian-gregson

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Hyrcza, Martin

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403-944-4759
martin.hyrcza@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr Hyrcza is has completed a combined MD/PhD program at the University of Toronto. His PhD thesis focussed on molecular biology of type I interferon response and its role in HIV progression. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Calgary with research interests in molecular pathology of head and neck neoplasms such as salivary and lacrimal gland tumours and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. He is also interested in quality assessment in pathology and in molecular pathology of endocrine tumours.

Joseph, Jeffrey

   Professor
   Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences
   Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower    
   phone: 403.944.8849
   email: jtjoseph@ucalgary.ca

   My current research is mainly focused on the Calgary Brain Bank (CBB). This repository is approved to bank both CNS tissues from patients with neurodegenerative diseases as well as normal controls. Since 2016, the CBB has about 165 donations. These include individuals who died with Alzheimer disease (AD), Parkinson disease (PD) and other Lewy body diseases (LBD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), multisystem atrophy (MSA), frontotemporal dementia (FTD-TDP), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS), along with people who died without known neurological diseases. My research has been to bank and distribute tissues. I also pathologically characterize these donations in significant anatomic detail, to determine the patterns of neuroanatomic degeneration. I have recently focused on autopsies with mixed pathological changes, which increase in aging but can also be present in younger individuals. I have a significant collaboration with Dr. Peter Stys, who has been doing spectral analysis of the different forms of amyloid-like proteins in neurodegenerative diseases. My clinical research also includes working with clinicians on various reports that require pathology.
 

profiles.ucalgary.ca/jeffrey-t-joseph

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Kelly, Margaret

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Physiology & Pharmacology
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8541
email: mmkelly@ucalgary.ca

Dr Margaret Kelly is a Professor with full Tenure and a Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. An Anatomical Pathologist with subspecialization in thoracic pathology, she is the director of the Thoracic Pathology Fellowship program, a member of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Disease and the Alberta Childrens Hospital Research Institute and holds the research Chair in Pediatric Respirology at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include the pathology of asthma, interstitial lung disease and lung cancer. She has received grant funding from the Alberta Heritage Foundation, the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and has over 70 refereed publications, including papers in Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

profiles.ucalgary.ca/margaret-kelly

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Khan, Faisal

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics
Heritage Medical Research Building/Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.210.8652/403.770.3948
email: fkhan@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Khan obtained his Ph.D. in Human Molecular Genetics in India in 2006. He completed his postdoctoral training and clinical fellowship at the University of Calgary. Dr. Khan is a certified Diplomat of the American Board of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ABHI). Dr. Khan has more than 21 years of experience in Transplant Immunology, Cancer Genomics, and Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Based on his research, Dr. Khan has published over 105 research articles in scientific journals like Science, Blood, Transplantation, and Blood Advances. Dr. Khan has led the development, validation, and implementation of several advanced clinical molecular diagnostic tests including next-generation sequencing-based comprehensive genomic profiling for myeloid malignancies and solid tumors; Serum-based cytokine profiling, NGS-based COVID-19 variant detection, and post-bone-marrow transplantation engraftment monitoring testing.

profiles.ucalgary.ca/faisal-khan

Koebel, Martin

Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower    
phone: 403.944.8504
email: martin.koebel@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

  1. Diagnostic biomarker application: As clinician scientist and gynecological pathologist, he is recognized for making major contributions to applying diagnostic biomarkers for ovarian carcinoma subclassification into histotypes. His laboratory developed a 4 marker immunohistochemical algorithm that classifies ovarian carcinomas into five major histotypes with an accuracy near 90%, which has been adopted by the 2020 WHO classification of Female Genital Tumours. His laboratory showed that optimized p53 immunohistochemistry achieves 97% accuracy in predicting the TP53 mutation status in ovarian carcinomas, allowing p53 immunohistochemistry to now be used as robust diagnostic test.
  2. Biomarker discovery: He used proteomic screens to discover new biomarkers that improve diagnostic accuracy particularly of endometrioid carcinomas, and was involved in the discovery of co-inactivation of ARID1B and ARID1A as a mutual exclusive mechanism of dedifferentiation in endometrial and ovarian endometrioid carcinomas. He was involved in the discovery of the pathognomonic FOXL2 mutation in adult granulosa cell tumor. 
  3. Predictive biomarker development: As part of the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Association consortium, he used this resource to validate the prognostic value of several key biomarkers in ovarian cancer including ER/PR for endometrioid and CD8, as well as CCNE1 for tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma, which leads to a potential utility as predictive biomarker.
     
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Mansoor, Adnan

Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4232
email: adnan.mansoor@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr. Mansoor is a professor and consultant Hematopathologist with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Calgary. His translational research focuses on leukemia and lymphoma biology through the utilization of various genomic and proteomic platforms. His current work comprises translational studies evaluating oncogenic signaling pathways and their linkage with clinical outcomes in aggressive B-cell lymphoma and the discovery of novel targets for precision medicine. Over the last ten years, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, obtained more than $500,000 in direct peer-reviewed funding as an investigator, and trained over 100 undergraduate, graduate (MSc/Ph.D.), clinical trainees, and post-doctoral scientists. He served as Chair of the examination committee on Pathology with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2012-2022). He is also a member of the review board of leading pathology journals.

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Naugler, Christopher

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Community Health Sciences
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
phone: 403.770.3756
email: ctnaugle@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Naugler’s research centers around 3 themes:

  1. Epidemiology of diseases and risk factors. He uses a variety of tools including big data and machine learning approaches, as well as geospatial analysis of lab data matched with other administrative datasets in this work.
  2. Effectiveness of laboratory testing in Health system outcomes. This work matches health outcomes with test utilization and individual and aggregate test results to inform health system improvements.
  3. Epidemiology of infectious diseases. In collaboration with colleagues in microbiology and infectious diseases, he studies the epidemiology of infectious diseases through the use of administrative data, geospatial analysis and computer models. 
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Nikolic, Ana

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4639
email: ana.nikolic@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr. Nikolic completed her doctoral studies focusing on the role of epigenetic factors in glioblastoma cell function and tumour progression, using epigenetic and bioinformatics techniques. Her research interests include leveraging epigenetic techniques to improve our understanding of the spatial and temporal epigenetic remodelling that goes on in this disease, and improving understanding of the links between genetic, epigenetic and functional factors in disease progression.

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Ng, Denise

Clinical Assistant Professor
Program Director: Neuropathology
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.6682
email: denise.ng@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

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Nohr, Erik

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.1326
email: erik.nohr@albertahealthservices.ca

Erik Nohr, MD FRCPC DABP, is a Molecular Pathologist with Alberta Precision Laboratories in Calgary, Alberta, and an Assistant Professor with the University of Calgary. His research interests are translational and pertain primarily to clinical applications of molecular testing in neoplasia, including design, optimization, quality assurance (QA), and quality improvement (QI). Clinical molecular test designs led by Dr. Nohr include the Alberta Precision Laboratories Pan-Solid Tumor Fusion RNA NGS panel, Lung Fusion RNA NGS panel, and ASXL1 Fragment Analysis assay. QA/QI projects include comparison of liquid cytology samples to FFPE tissue for predictive biomarker testing for patients with metastatic lung cancer, and performance comparison of multiplex fusion detection platforms for sarcoma diagnosis.

Ogilvie, Travis

Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
South Health Campus   
phone: 403.956.1358
email: ogilvie@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Travis Ogilvie is a Gynecologic and Breast Pathologist with past Molecular Pathology fellowship training. His research interest focuses on Breast cancer, Gynecologic malignancies, Biomarkers and Quality Control. He has experience in lab administration, student evaluation undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate training.

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Pillai, Dylan

Professor and Department Head
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and
Medicine, and Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
phone: 403.770.3578
email: drpillai@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Pillai is Professor and Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, with adjunct appointments in Medicine and Microbiology (MIID) at the University of Calgary. He practices in both Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. His research interests comprise (i) translational studies evaluating cost-effectiveness and outcomes of new diagnostic tests; (ii) developing point-of-care and near-patient diagnostic technology for application in resource-limited settings internationally and (iii) understanding the pathogenesis of infectious diseases using genomic and proteomic approaches. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles, obtained over $5 million in direct peer-reviewed funding as a principal investigator over the last 10 years from Tri-Council and other sources, and trained over 30 undergraduate, graduate (MSc/PhD), clinical trainees, and post-doctoral scientists in his laboratory. He was recently named 2021 Peak Scholar at the University of Calgary. He serves on Editorial Boards of leading journals including Clinical Infectious Diseases (IDSA) and Clinical Microbiology Reviews (ASM) and several grant review panels. Technology developed in his laboratory has resulted in local commercialization activity including a start-up company in Calgary.

Pitout, Johann

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology and
Immunology & Infectious Diseases
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
phone: 403.770.3573
email: johann.pitout@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dr Pitout is a Professor at the Cummings Medical School, University of Calgary and Medical Microbiologist at Dynalife Laboratories Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His main research interests are resistance to antimicrobial agents among Gram-negative bacteria especially the laboratory detection, characterization, molecular epidemiology, and evolution of bacteria with -lactamases. He has been involved in near patient testing, population-based studies, and the roles of MDR clones and plasmids among bacteria producing the extended-spectrum -lactamases and carbapenemases. Dr Pitout has been tracking successful MDR clones locally and globally. More recent research projects involve the underlying reasons for the success of such clones and ways to predict the next global MDR clone.   He is an Editor for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Reviews and serves on the Editorial boards of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He has published over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts in this field.

profiles.ucalgary.ca/johann-david-daniel-pitout

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Sidhu, Davinder

Clinical Associate Professor
Program Director: Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.6626
email: davinder.sidhu@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

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Teman, Carolin

Clinical Associate Professor
Program Director: Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8503
email: carolin.teman@albertaprecisionlabs.ca
 

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Trpkov, Kiril

Professor Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Rockyview General Hospital phone: 403.943.3443 email: kiril.trpkov@albertaprecisionlabs.ca Dr. Kiril Trpkov is a Professor of Pathology at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His area of expertise includes uropathology and his recent work has focused on characterizing novel kidney tumor entities. Dr. Trpkov has been involved with several national and international organizations, including WHO, USCAP, IAP and ICCR in establishing guidelines, practice standards and educational activities in uropathology. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and other scholarly contributions. Dr. Trpkov has given lectures, courses, slide seminars, and workshops in uropathology on all continents. He was a founding member of the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS), and from 2019 - 2021 he served as the first President of the GUPS. GUPS is an international subspecialty organization that aims to advance the care of patients with urologic diseases by encouraging best practices, research and education in urologic pathology.
Yilmaz, Asli

Yilmaz, Asli

Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital
phone: 403.943.3630
email: asli.yilmaz@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Zhang, Kunyan

Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and
Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Medicine
Health Sciences Centre    
phone: 403.210.8484
email: kzhang@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Zhang current research activities focus on the molecular detection, characterization and pathogenicity of multidrug-resistant staphylococci, including methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS).

profiles.ucalgary.ca/kunyan-zhang

Abdullah, Amid
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3670
email: amid.abdullah@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Abi Daoud, Marie
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
403.770.3274
Email: marie.abidaoud@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Auer, Yvonna (Iwona)
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8225
email: iwona.auer@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Baskin, Leland
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3758
email: leland.baskin@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Berenger, Byron
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre-ProvLab
phone: 403.770.3808/403.944.5910
email:  byron.berenger@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Berka, Noureddine
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3655
email: noureddine.berka@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Box, Adrian
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre/McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.6686
email: adrian.box@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Boyd, Jessica
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3549
email: jessica.boyd@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Bradley, Lucy
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
phone: 403-297-8123
email: lucy.bradley@gov.ab.ca
Brown, Holly
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3250
email: holly.brown@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Brown, Kristen
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
phone: 403-770-3214
email: kristen.brown@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Bures, Nicole
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3549
email: nicole.bures@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Caragea, Mara
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.6685
email: mara.caragea@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Chan, Elaine
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Alberta Children's Hospital
phone: 403.955.7761
email: elaine.s.chan@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Chan,Wilson
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
phone: 403.770.3763
email: wilson.chan@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Cota Schwarz, Ana
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403-944-6683
email: ana.cotaschwarz@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dharmani-Khan, Poonam
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre/McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.6638
email: pdharman@ucalgary.ca

Dingle, Tanis
Clinical Microbiologist
Foothills Medical Center
phone: 403-944-3091
email: tanis.dingle@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Dvorakova, Marie
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre 
phone: 403.770.3823
email: marie.dvorakova@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Falck, Vincent
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4746
email: vincent.falck@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Flynn, Ethan
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3396
email: ethan.flynn@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Fourie, Thomas
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8714
email: thomas.fourie@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Franko, Angela
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.5056
email: angela.franko@albertaprecisionlabs.ca 

Galman, Lanie
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
South Health Campus 
phone: 403.956.1357
email: lanie.galman@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Gao, Chen
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3519
email: chen.gao@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

George, David
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8198
email: david.george@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Gifford, Jessica
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3486
email: jessica.gifford@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Gorecki, Margaret
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre 
phone: 403.770.3752
email: margaret.gorecki@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Gorombey, Steve
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Peter Lougheed Centre
phone: 403.943.4328
email: steve.gorombey@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Griener, Thomas
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3811
email: thomas.griener@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Groeschel, Michael
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3890
email: michael.groeschel@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Guggisberg, Kelly
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital 
phone: 403.943.3438
email: kelly.guggisberg@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Howell, Jenika
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre/McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8368
email:  jenika.howell@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Hunter, Charlene
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre 
phone: 403-770-3202
email: charlene.hunter@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Husain, Arjumand
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
FMC-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4757
email: arjumand.husain@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Jafari, Katayoon (Kathy)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
FMC-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8995
email: katayoon.jafari@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Jiang, Xiu Yan (Sue)
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3548
email: xiu.jian@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Kanji, Jamil
Physician, Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
Foothills Medical Center
phone: 403-944-8775
email: jamil.kanji@albertahealthservices.ca

Khalil, Moosa
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8369
email: moosa.khalil@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

 

 

Klonowski, Paul
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre 
phone: 403.770.3430
email: paul.klonowski@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Koro, Konstantin
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403-944-8505
email: konstantin.koro@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Kulaga, Andrzej (Andrew)
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital 
phone: 403.943.3411
email: andrzej.kulaga@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Langdon, Kristopher
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Mediince
Foothills Medical Center, McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.5808
email: kristopher.langdon@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Larsen, Erik
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital 
phone: 403.943.3712
email: erik.larsen@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Lee, Sandra
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
South Health Campus 
phone: 403.956.1380
email: sandra.lee@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Lisboa, Luiz
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3437
email: luiz.lisboa@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Luedtke, Chad
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
South Health Campus 
phone: 403.956.1378
email: chad.luedtke@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Lynch, Tarah
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3813
email: tarah.lynch@aplabs.ca

Mahe, Etienne
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre/McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.5290
email:  etienne.mahe@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Medlicott, Shaun
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital
phone: 403.943.3584
email: shaun.medlicott@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Minoo, Parham
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4570
email: parham.minoo@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Mourad, Walid
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3467
email: walid.mourad@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Naert, Karen
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre          
phone: 403.770.3673
email: karen.naert@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

O’Connor, Kate
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre/McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8507
email:  kate.o’connor@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Orton, Dennis
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3219
email: dennis.orton@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Paul, Heather
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3634
email: heather.paul@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Prokopishyn, Nicole
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.3687
email: nicole.prokopishyn@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Roshan, Tariq
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403-944-6601
email: tariq.roshan@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Sadrzadeh, Hossein
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre 
phone: 403.770.3759
email: hossein.sadrzadeh@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Schell, Andrew
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital
phone: 403.943.3275
email: andrew.schell@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Seiden Long, Isolde
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.3993
email: isolde.seidenlong@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Shabani-Rad, Meer-Taher
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4754
email: meer-taher.shabani-rad@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Siadat, Farshid
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rockyview General Hospital
phone: 403-943-3275
email: farshid.siadat@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Sienko, Anna
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Peter Lougheed Centre
phone: 403.943.4783
email: anna.sienko@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Todorovic, Emilija
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403-944-4763
email: emilija.todorovic@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Urbanski, Stefan
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower            
phone: 403.944.4751
email: stefan.urbanski@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Venner, Allison
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403-770-3566
email: allison.venner@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Vuong, Jennifer
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Center, McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.6639
email: jennifer.vuong@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Waghray, Ranjit
Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3204
email: ranjit.waghray@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Wang, Yinong
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3844
email: yinong.wang@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Whitcomb, Emma
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
South Health Campus         
phone: 403.956.1382
email: emma.whitcomb@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Wiebe, Nicholas (Nick)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8506
email: nicholas.wiebe@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Wilkinson, Lisa
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Peter Lougheed Centre
phone: 403.943.4280
email: lisa.wilkinson2@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Yang, Hua
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower        
phone: 403.944.4056
email: hua.yang@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Yu, Weiming
Clinical Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics
Alberta Children's Hospital
phone: 403.955.2257
email: weiming.yu@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Zargham, Ramin
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3251
email: ramin.zargham@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Zhou,  Hong Yuan
Clinical Microbiologist
Foothills Medical Center
phone: 403-944-2724
email: hong.zhou@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Healey, Ryan
Pathology Scientist, Clinical Lecturer, Anatomic Pathology
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.1227
email: ryan.healey@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Horn, Christopher
Pathology Scientist, Clinical Lecturer, Anatomic Pathology
Alberta Children's Hospital
phone: 403.955-7305
email: christopher.horn@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Laing, Austin
Pathology Scientist, Clinical Lecturer, Anatomic Pathology
South Health Campus
phone: 403-956-1395
email: austin.laing@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Yang, Christina
Pathology Scientist, Clinical Lecturer, Anatomic Pathology
Foothills Medical Centre-McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.1578
email: christina.yang@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Brett, Rhiannon
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: rhiannon.brett@ahs.ca

Caires, Diogo
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: diogo.caires@ahs.ca

Cheng, Richard
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: richard.cheng@ahs.ca

Da-Anoy, Annalyn
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower 
email: annalyn.da-anoy@ahs.ca  

De Boeck, Astrid
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower    
email: astrid.deboeck@ahs.ca

Dwyer, Zachary
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: zachary.dwyer@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Farrington, Kyo
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower    
email: kyo.farrington@ahs.ca

Hamidi, Mahboobsadat
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: mahboobsadat.hamidi@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Holmes, Emma
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: emma.holmes@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

House, Nicole (Jessica)
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: jessica.house@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Ji, Selina (Feng)
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: feng.ji@ahs.ca

Kavanagh, Alana
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: alana.kavanagh@ahs.ca

Kipp, Alexander
Medical Microbiology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
email: alexander.kipp@ahs.ca

Laing, Austin
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: austin.laing@albertaprecisionlabs.ca 

McCartney, Nathan
Medical Microbiology
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre     
email: nathan.mccartney@ahs.ca

Newell, Christopher
Neuropathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower    
email: christopher.newell@ahs.ca

Poon, Elaine
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: elaine.poon@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Rehman, Asia
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: asia.rehman@ahs.ca

Reich, Caitlan
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: caitlan.reich@ahs.ca

Robertson, Anna
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: Anne.robertson@ahs.ca

Rosler, Kirsten
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: kirsten.rosler@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Salut, Norel
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: norel.salut@ahs.ca

Samsoondar, Joshua
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: joshua.samsoondar@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Stephenson, Erin
Neuropathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower    
email: erin.stephenson@ahs.ca

Taylor, Kyla
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: kyla.taylor@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Taylor, Nicholas
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: nicholas.taylor2@ahs.ca

Twa, David
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: david.twa@ahs.ca

Varner, Amy
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: amy.varner@ahs.ca

Wang, Shuaijin (Jenny)
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: shuaijin.wang@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Weir, Jessalyn
Diagnostic and Clinical Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: jessalyn.weir@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Wiedemeyer, Katharina
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: katharina.weidemeyer@ahs.ca

Xu, Crystal (Yitong)
Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology 
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 
Foothills Medical Center - McCaig Tower
email: yitong.xu@ahs.ca
 

Shah, Ahmed
Dermatopathology
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: ahmed.shah@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

 

Hu, Qian (Nancy)Histocompatibility
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: qian.hu@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

 

Cai, Fangze
Clinical Biochemistry
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
email: fangze.cai@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Ezra, Sally
Clinical Biochemistry Fellow
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre    
email: saly.ezra@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Campbell, Kristy
Program Administrator - Neuropathology Residency
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4639
email: kristy.campbell@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Cronin, Laurel
Flow Cytometry
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944-8475
laurel.cronin@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Epp, Katrina
Administrative Assistant
Health Sciences Centre
phone: 403.210.7736
email: katrina.epp@ucalgary.ca

Frago, Riya
Anatomic Pathology
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3478
email: riya.frago@dynalife.ca

Gillespie, Emma
Anatomic Pathology
South Health Campus
phone: 403-956.1388
email: emma.gillespie@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Levy-Brown, Jodian
Anatomic Pathology
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3683
email: jodian.levy-brown@albertaprecisionlabs.ca 

Liu, Mengchu (Cindy)
Medical Microbiology
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3338
email: menghu.liu@dynalife.ca

Matthews, Megan
Anatomic Pathology
Rockyview General Hospital
phone: 403.943.8850
email: megan.matthews@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

McCloskey, Katianne
Transfusion Medicine
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.3093
email: katianne.mccloskey@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

McGovern, Elizabeth
Executive
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.1566
email: elizabeth.mcgovern@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Monroe, Charlotte
Anatomic Pathology
Alberta Children's Hospital
phone: 403.955.2333
email: charlotte.monroe@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Pitman, Shawna
Program Administrator - Medical Microbiology 
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3676
email: shawna.pitman@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Pringle, Timbre
Anatomic Pathology
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.8041
email: timbre.pringle@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Saubak, Cassandra
Program Administrator - Diagnostic & Molecular Pathology Residency
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.1692
email: cassandra.saubak@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Seck, Chung-Sze
Research Administrator
Heritage Medical Research Building
phone: 403.220.8750
email: seck@ucalgary.ca

Sharrock, Bobbi Jo
Histocompatibility
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3814
email: bobbijo.sharrock @albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Smith, Carmel
Anatomic Pathology
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.4757
email: carmel.smith@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Stewart, Natasha
Anatomic Pathology
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.944.2014
email: stewart.perry@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Stowe, Addie
Medical Microbiology
Foothills Medical Centre - McCaig Tower
phone: 403.770.3310
email: addie.stowe@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Strybosch, Alexandra
Medical Affairs
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: unk
email: alexandra.strybosch@albertaprecisionlabs.ca 

Thomas, Anna
Program Administrator - Diagnostic & Clinical Pathology Residency
Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
phone: 403.770.3447
email: anna.thomas@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Zhuang, Sandra
Anatomic Pathology
Rockyview General Hospital
phone: 403.943.8850
email: sandra.zhuang@albertaprecisionlabs.ca

Alexander, Fred
Clinical Professor Emeritus

Clark, Arthur
Professor Emeritus
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences

Demetrick, Doug
Professor Emeritus
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Oncology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics

DiFrancesco, Lisa
Associate Professor Emerita

Duggan, Maire A.
Professor Emerita
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Green, Francis
Professor Emeritus

Resch, Lothar
Associate Professor Emeritus

Trevenen, Cynthia
Associate Professor Emerita
Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics

Trotter, Martin
Professor Emeritus

Wright, Jr, James
Professor Emeritus
 

Eidus, Leslie
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor

Falck, Vincent
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor

Paslawski, Doreen
Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor