Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta – List of Members
HREBA membership as of 01 April 2025
| Name | Board | TCPS 2 Roles & Specialties | City | |||
| Alex Alexander, MD, PhD | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Bioinformatics, Machine Learning and Adaptive Computations) | Edmonton | |||
| Lauren Birks, PhD | Cancer Committee | Community Member (Population and Public Health) | Calgary | |||
| Ellen Burgess, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific / Ethics (Nephrology / Pediatrics) | Calgary | |||
| Karen Campbell | Cancer Committee | Community Member | Edmonton | |||
| Brett Clelland, JD | Community Health Committee | Law (Intellectual Property) | Edmonton | |||
| Cheryl Currie, PhD | Clinical Trials Committee Community Health Committee (Chair) |
Scientific (Quantitative / Qualitative methodology) | London, ON | |||
| Sambasivarao Damaraju, PhD | Cancer Committee (Chair) Clinical Trials Committee (Vice Chair) |
Scientific (Cancer Genetics / Pharmacogenetics / Precision Medicine) | Edmonton | |||
| Lorna Dancey | Clinical Trials Committee Community Health Committee |
Community Member (Indigenous Representative) | Calgary | |||
| Brenda Davis, LLM, PhD | Cancer Committee Clinical Trials Committee (Chair) |
Privacy / Law | Edmonton | |||
| Douglas Dawson | Cancer Committee | Community Member | Edmonton | |||
| Sunil Desai, MD | Cancer Committee Clinical Trials Committee (Vice Chair) |
Scientific (Pediatric Hematology / Oncology) | Edmonton | |||
| Katherine Duthie, PhD | Cancer Committee | Ethics (Clinical Ethics) | Edmonton | |||
| Carlos Flores-Mir, MD | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Dental) | Edmonton | |||
| Sunita Ghosh, PhD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Biostatistics) | Detroit, MI | |||
| Allen Habib, PhD | Community Health Committee | Ethics (Philosophy) | Calgary | |||
| Desiree Hao, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Medical Oncology) | Calgary | |||
| Joanne Hewitt, PhD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Advanced Practice Nursing) | St. Albert | |||
| L. Jamie Hodge, P.Eng. | Cancer Committee Community Health Committee |
Community Member | Calgary | |||
| Megan Hogendoorn, JD | Community Health Committee (Vice Chair) | Law | Edmonton | |||
| Sandra Johansen, PhD | Community Health Committee | Scientific (Methodologist) | Calgary | |||
| Yume Kobayashi, BN | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Nursing) | Edmonton | |||
| Richard Lee-Ying, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Medical Oncology) | Calgary | |||
| Debbie Mallett | Clinical Trials Committee Community Health Committee |
Community Member | Edmonton | |||
| Mary Marshall, LLM | Cancer Committee | Privacy / Law | Edmonton | |||
| Sylvia McCrudden, BSc Pharm | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Pharmacy) | Edmonton | |||
| Chris McTavish, PhD | Cancer Committee | Ethics | Edmonton | |||
| Albert Mehl, MD | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Pediatrics) | Black Diamond | |||
| J. Ross Mitchell, PhD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Medical Biophysics) | Edmonton | |||
| Sean Nurmsoo, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Physician) | Edmonton | |||
| Jodi Parrotta, MA, CCRP | Clinical Trials Committee | Regulations | Edmonton | |||
| Nimesh Patel, MPH | Clinical Trials Committee Community Health Committee |
Scientific (Quantitative Methodology) | Lethbridge | |||
| Robert Pearcey, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Radiation Oncology) | Edmonton | |||
| Neelan Pillay, MB.ChB. | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Neurology) | Calgary | |||
| Azadeh Nikoo Rajaee, MD, MHE, FRCSC | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (General Surgery) | Edmonton | |||
| Gloria Roldán Urgoiti, MD, FRCPC | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Medical Oncology) | Calgary | |||
| James Sanders, PhD | Community Health Committee | Scientific (Methodologist) | Lethbridge | |||
| Mary-Pat Schlosser, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Pediatric Palliative Care) | Edmonton | |||
| Fiona Schulte, PhD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology) | Calgary | |||
| Christopher Sikora, MD | Community Health Committee | Scientific (Physician) | Edmonton | |||
| Vivian Simpkin, BA, LLB | Cancer Committee | Law | Edmonton | |||
| Michael Smylie, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Medical Oncology) | Edmonton | |||
| Melisa Spaling, CCRP, MEd | Clinical Trials Committee | Community Member | Edmonton | |||
| Gordon Sustrik, KC, LLB, | Cancer Committee | Law | Edmonton | |||
| Keith Tankel, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Radiation Oncology) | Edmonton | |||
| Nora Turenne | Cancer Committee | Community Member (Indigenous Representative) | Edmonton | |||
| A. Robert Turner, MD | Cancer Committee (Vice Chair) | Scientific (Medical Oncology / Hematology) | Edmonton | |||
| M. Joan Turner, PhD | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Oncology, DNA repair/ Genetics, Radiation Biology) | Edmonton | |||
| Fatima Unwala, MD | Clinical Trials Committee | Scientific (Family Medicine) | Edmonton | |||
| Raul Urtasun, MD | Cancer Committee (Vice Chair) | Scientific (Radiation Oncology) | Edmonton | |||
| Brent Windwick, KC, LLM | Cancer Committee Clinical Trials Committee |
Law (Health Law) | Edmonton | |||
| Jackson Wu, MD | Cancer Committee (Vice Chair) | Scientific (Radiation Oncology) | Calgary | |||
| Sharlene Yanitski, BA, LLB | Clinical Trials Committee | Community Member | Edmonton | |||
| Philip Zachariah, BA, JD | Clinical Trials Committee | Law | Calgary | |||
| Xiaofu Zhu, MD | Cancer Committee | Scientific (Medical Oncology) | Edmonton |
The HIA-designated Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta consists of three committees [the Cancer Committee (CC), Clinical Trials Committee (CTC), and Community Health Committee (CHC)] operating as one Research Ethics Board. As such, members from one committee may attend another committee’s meeting when their expertise is required. This ensures that members in attendance have the specific expertise, relevant competence and knowledge necessary to provide an adequate research ethics review of the proposals under consideration.
The majority of the members are Canadian citizens or permanent residents under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. HREBA is constituted and operates in accordance with the Alberta Health Information Act (HIA), the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2), Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Guidelines of the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH), Health Canada’s Food and Drug Regulations (FDR), Part C, Division 5 and is registered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) where required.
Members named as Principal Investigators or Co-investigators on a study that is under review do not participate in discussions related to, nor vote on, such studies when they are presented; this applies to initial and continuing reviews.
A pdf version of this list, as well as previous lists of HREBA members, can be found here