Innovation Anthology #720:

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Understanding what prevents people from donating organs for transplantation is just one of the issues Dr. Lori West and her colleagues are researching.  

Dr West is a professor, a cardiologist and a clinical scientist at the University of Alberta.

With funding from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, she recently helped  establish a country wide network for transplantation research.

DR LORI WEST:  The nationwide program is called the National Transplant Research Program.  It’s unique in the world because it links the three communities of solid organ transplantation, bone marrow transplantation or hematopoietic cell transplantation, and donation critical care into a national research coalition. And the researchers involved in this national network include not just basic science research, but clinical research, health systems and policy research, population and cultural aspects of research, that all together have an impact on the important  health issues of our day, in this case, donation and transplantation.

Dr West says funding from AIHS in the early stages  was crucial in relationship building to create the network.

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

Program Date: 2015-10-01