Clinical Trials Committee | Membership
This list is current as of 01 April 2025
| Name | Role and Primary Specialty | City |
| Alex Alexander, MD, PhD | Scientific (Bioinformatics, Machine Learning and Adaptive Computations) | Edmonton |
| Cheryl Currie, PhD | Scientific (Quantitative / Qualitative methodology) | London, ON |
| Sambasivarao Damaraju, PhD (Vice Chair) | Scientific (Cancer Genetics / Pharmacogenetics / Precision Medicine) | Edmonton |
| Lorna Dancey | Community Member (Indigenous Representative) | Edmonton |
| Brenda Davis, LLM, PhD (Chair) | Privacy / Law | Edmonton |
| Sunil Desai, MD (Vice Chair) | Scientific (Pediatric Hematology, Oncology) | Edmonton |
| Carlos Flores-Mir, DDS | Scientific (Dental) | Edmonton |
| Yume Kobayashi, BN | Scientific (Nursing) | Edmonton |
| Debbie Mallett | Community Member | Edmonton |
| Sylvia McCrudden, MD | Scientific (Pharmacy) | Edmonton |
| Albert Mehl, MD | Scientific (Pediatrics) | Black Diamond |
| Jodi Parrotta, MA, CCRP | Regulations | Edmonton |
| Nimesh Patel, MPH | Scientific (Quantitative Methodology) | Lethbridge |
| Neelan Pillay, MB.ChB | Scientific (Neurology) | Calgary |
| Azadeh Nikoo Rajaee, MD, MHE, FRCSC | Scientific (General Surgery) | Edmonton |
| Melisa Spaling, CCRP, MEd | Community Member | Edmonton |
| M. Joan Turner, PhD | Scientific (Oncology, DNA repair/ Genetics, Radiation Biology) | Edmonton |
| Fatima Unwala, MD | Scientific (Family Medicine) | Edmonton |
| Brent Windwick, LLM, KC | Law (Health Law) | Edmonton |
| Sharlene Yanitski, BA, LLB | Community Member | Edmonton |
| Philip Zachariah, BA, JD | Law | Calgary |
The HREBA Clinical Trials Committee is constituted and operates in accordance with the:
– Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2);
– Alberta Health Information Act (HIA);
– Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Guidelines of the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH);
– Health Canada’s Food and Drug Regulations (FDR), Part C, Division 5.
The committee is registered with the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), IRB # 00001209.
The HREBA-CTC is one of three committees which comprise the HIA-designated Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta. Since the three committees operate as one Research Ethics Board, 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. To see a full list of the HREBA Membership click here.
The majority of the committee members are Canadian citizens or permanent residents under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. 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, are available here.