Meet our Researchers

Meet some of our researchers in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Stay tuned as more researchers are featured over the coming months.

Khaled Barakat
Khaled Barakat
Professor

Barakat's focus on teamwork and patient needs has led to breakthroughs in the search for cancer therapies, antivirals and safer drugs.

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Ken Cor
Ken Cor
Clinical Associate Professor
Assistant Dean of Assessment

Cor believes ensuring high-quality tests, exams and other typese of assessment in higher education is an important issue of fairness and equity.

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Christine Hughes
Christine Hughes
Faculty Dean

Hughes' research interests focus on HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections and the role of the community pharmacist in sexual health.

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Tony Kiang
Tony Kiang
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Kiang's passion for patient care leads to translational studies (from the bench to the bedside) that will improve the lives of people living with kidney disorders.

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Afsaneh Lavasanifar
Afsaneh Lavasanifar
Professor

Using nanomedicine to improve effectiveness and safety of chemotherapy,  Lavasanifar’s precision drug-delivery system could mean better outcomes and fewer side-effects for cancer patients.

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Sherif Mahmoud
Sherif Mahmoud
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Certificate to Canadian Pharmacy Practice Program

Mahmoud brings the bench to the bedside in neurocritical pharmaceutical care.

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Cheryl Sadowski
Cheryl Sadowski
Professor

Sadowski is co-leading a U of A team developing a tool to help arthritis patients and health professionals decide whether to use cannabis as a treatment.

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John Seubert
John Seubert
Professor
Adjunct Professor, Pharmacology 

Seubert's goal is to develop therapies to prevent and treat cardiac injury and improve overall cardiac health by studying the impacts of aging and epoxylipids on the heart.

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Scot Simpson
Scot Simpson
Professor

Working to help patients with Type 2 diabetes receive the safest and most effective medication, Simpson's research helps answer critical questions in medication management for diabetes patients.

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John Ussher
John Ussher
Professor

Ussher’s lab combines metabolic, genetic and drug sciences to improve the quality of life of people living with obesity.

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Kaitlyn Watson
Kaitlyn Watson
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Watson focuses on the public health, social sciences, disaster and emergency aspects of health-service research in pharmacy. 

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Nese Yuksel
Nese Yuksel
Professor

Yuksel's research focuses on understanding aspects of women's health, including menopause and osteoporosis, and improving their quality of care.

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