Congratulations to

Corinne Duprat,
appointed as Cardiac Surgery Waitlist Coordinator, Cardiac Sciences Program.

Terri Hillier,
Appointed as Administrative Assistant, Cardiac Sciences Program.

Jan Currie,
WRHA Chief Nursing Office and President responsible for the WRHA Cardiac Sciences Program, on her retirement.

Francis LaBossiere,
President and Chief Operating Officer, Victoria General Hospital, on his appointment as the WRHA Vice-President responsible for the Cardiac Sciences Program.

Collette DeSchutter,
Equipment Coordinator, Cardiac Sciences Program, on her retirement.

Bruce Morin,
hired as the new Equipment Coordinator, Cardiac Sciences Program.

Dr. Randy Fransoo,
Research Scientist, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), on being awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant. This grant will expand access to the Data Repository at MCHP and support the addition of several new databases for research use, including data from the WRHA Cardiac Sciences Program.

The Cardiac Sciences Program Congestive Heart Failure Clinic Team
received the Certificate Excellence for Top Centre Enrolment (National Database) from teh Canadian Heart Failure Network. This award was presented to Dr. Shelley Zieroth, Director, SBGH Heart Failure and Transplant Clinics and Head, Medical Heart Failure Program and Estrelita Estrella Holder, Clinical Nurse Specialist, at the September 2009 Heart Failure Society of America meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. There are currently 33 Heart Failure Clinics in Canada participating in the Canadian Heart Failure Network. The database is used to provide clinical care and to support local / national research endeavours.

Cardiovascular Health Research in Manitoba (CHaRM)
has its first publication, entitled "Impact of 24-Hour, In-House Intensivists on a Dedicated Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit" in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. This research was co-authored by Dr. Kenny Kumar, Dr. Ryan Zarychanski, Dr. Dean Bell, Dr. Rizwan Manji, Dr. Joel Zivot, Dr. Alan Menkis and Dr. Rakesh Arora on behalf of the CHaRM group.

 

UPDATED FALL, 2009