MD with Special Training in Research (STIR) Supervisors
- Look for a project in an area in which you have some interest. To obtain an AHFMR summer studentship, the research should relate in some apparent way to human health. All researchers are listed on their Department websites.
- Look for researchers who have faculty appointments and active research labs, i.e. average 2 or more publications per year for the past few years. To find out about a potential supervisor's research productivity, search by author at the PubMed site of the National Academy of Medicine (USA) or ask the researcher for a copy of his/her curriculum vitae.
- Make an appointment to see several researchers and their labs to discuss the possibility of a summer project. Once a supervisor has offered to submit an application for a summer studentship on your behalf and you have agreed, you have an obligation to stay with your decision. Don't forget to ask the researcher if s/he can afford to support you from research funds IF you are not successful in getting an AHFMR or another summer studentship. Some researchers have more research funding than others; some researchers have more financial flexibility than others.
- Remember that, initially, at least, you will "cost" your supervisor time and money from hard-to-get research grants. The supervisor would not take you on if s/he didn't like training students but clearly hopes that you will give at least as much to the research as you got so that s/he ends up equal or ahead in research productivity at the end of the summer.
Listed below are the supervisors of successful MD with Special Training in Research (STIR) students over the last three years. Not all may have space for students next summer. Please note that there are hundreds of other potential STIR supervisors. For instance, there are those who have supervised summer research projects apart from the STIR program and there are always new members of academic staff who are anxious to have help in building their research careers. The Faculty's Research Office will distribute a list of researchers who have made specific requests for student assistance for next summer.
Summer of 2007
| U of A | Other Universities and Hospitals |
|---|---|
| Steve Bamforth - Medical Genetics | Lorraine Hamiwka Pediactric Nephrology - U of C |
| Lola Baydala - Pediatrics | |
| David Brindley - Biochemistry | Christopher Mody Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - U of C |
| Manjula Gowrishankar - Pediatrics | |
| Hien Huynh - Pediatrics | |
| Susan Jacobs-Kaufman - Physiology | |
| Jean-Michel Le Mellédo - Psychiatry | |
| Karen Madsen - Medicine | |
| Tony Reiman - Oncology | |
| Martin Somerville - Medical Genetics | |
| Lori West - Pediatrics |
Summer of 2006
| U of A | Other Universities and Hospitals |
|---|---|
| Babita Agrawal - Surgery |
Derek Exner Cardiac Sciences/Medicine U of C |
| Jeremy Beach - Public Health Sciences | |
| William Craig - Pediatric Emergency | Debra Isaac Cardiac Sciences/Medicine - U of C |
| Levinus Dieleman - Medicine | |
| Richard Fedorak - Medicine | Suzanne Trudel Medicine - U of T |
| Sarah Forgie - Pediatric | |
| Phil Halloran - Medicine | Elaine Wirrell - Pediatrics - U of C |
| Jackie Hebert - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | |
| Shao Hua Wang - Cardiac Surgery | |
| Hien Huynh - Pediatrics | |
| Jack Jhamandas - Medicine | |
| Bonita Lee - Pediatrics | |
| Roderick MacArthur - Surgery | |
| Gina Rayat - Surgery | |
| James Shapiro - Surgery | |
| Bernard Thébaud - Pediatrics | |
| Rachel Wevrick - Medical Genetics | |
| Alan Wilman - Biomedical Engineering |
Summer of 2005
| U of A | Other Universities and Hospitals |
|---|---|
| Stephen Archer - Cardiology |
Niels Bols Biology - U of Waterloo |
| Klaus Ballanyi - Physiology | |
| Debora Burshtyn - Medical Microbiology & Immunology | Derek Exner Medicine - U of C |
| Richard Camicioli - Medicine | Andrew Halayko Physiology - U of M |
| Sukhvinder Dhillon - Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging | |
| Richard Fedorak - Medicine | Richard Hawkes Cell Biology and Anatomy - U of C |
| Mark Glover - Biochemistry | |
| Mark Greve - Ophthalmology | James Kellner Pediatric Infectious Diseases - U of C |
| Philip Halloran - Medicine/Nephrology | |
| Kathleen Hegadoren - Faculty of Nursing | Don Morris - Medicine - U of C |
| Jack Jhamandas - Medicine | Ted Steiner Medicine/Infectious Diseases - UBC |
| George Kotovych - Chemistry - Faculty of Science | |
| Bonita Lee - Pediatrics | |
| Gary Lopaschuk - Pediatrics | |
| Ronald McElhaney - Biochemistry | |
| Locksley McGann - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology | |
| Hanne Ostergaard - Medical Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Richard Owen - Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging | |
| Ivan Rebeyka - Surgery | |
| Joan Robinson - Pediatrics | |
| Lawrence Richer - Pediatrics | |
| Mayanur Suresh - Faculty of Pharmacy | |
| Edward Tredget - Surgery | |
| Ban Tsui - Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine | |
| Lori West - Pediatrics |
Summer Student Research Program
Researchers within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offer a variety of stimulating summer research projects for undergraduate students.
It is expected that students will apply to the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) or the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) or other such agencies for a Summer Studentship. Occasionally, some supervisors/departments are able to support summer students.
For further information, please see the following website: Summer Student Research Opportunities
Documents
- MD With STIR Application Form (DOC, 72 KB)
- MD With STIR Supervisor's Evaluation Form (DOC, 36 KB)
