Evaluation

• Establishment of 13 strategic task forces, covering topics from collegiality to performance metrics; and from communication to global health. All of the task forces have delivered provisional reports; the recommendations will be scrutinized before becoming faculty policy.
• Launch of Comprehensive Research Assessment, to be concluded in March 2010.

Strategic Development

Restructuring

• Appointment of three vice-deans and restructuring of the Office of the Dean.
• Approval by the Faculty and the University of the reorganisation of the Faculty into eight virtual schools. Selection of school leads, as well as leads for administration, learning/education and research for each school.
• Establishment of faculty research and education committees.
• Appointment of the following: chair and lead for the School of Dentistry (Dr. Paul Major), chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Dr. Louise Kenny), and interim director of the Alberta Diabetes Institute (Dr. Peter Light).

Education

• Accreditation of the undergraduate dentistry and the postgraduate anesthesiology program.
• Appointment of a new associate dean, postgraduate medical education (Dr. Ramona Kearney).

Research

• Approval of the Institute of Virology, with major new funding committed.
• Recruitment completed or in progress for the following endowed research chairs:
  • Al Shamal Shriners Chair in Pediatric Scoliosis Research
  • Capital Health Chair in Aboriginal Health
  • Capital Health Chair in Emergency Medicine
  • Capital Health Chair in Neurology
  • Capital Health Chair in Transplantation
  • Dr. Charles Allard Chair in Diabetes Research
  • Friends of Garrett Cumming Research Chair, Muscular Dystrophy Canada
  • GlaxoSmithKline Chair in Airway Inflammation
  • J. A. Gilbert Chair in Medical Education Research
  • Lilian McCullough Chair in Breast Cancer Surgery
  • Mazankowski Heart Institute Chair in Cardiac Sciences
  • Mazankowski Heart Institute Chair in Cardiac Sciences
  • Patient Health Management Chair (joint recruitment with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
  • The Murial & Ada Hole, Kids with Cancer Society, Pediatric Oncology Chair

Fundraising

• Attended 22 donor/industry meetings in varying stages of cultivation, solicitation and stewardship with $17 million of potential funding in discussion.
• Secured $9.1 million in donations.
• New chairs established/pending:
  • Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation (RAHF) Cavarzan Chair in Women's Health
  • RAHF Chair (research field to be determined)
  • RAHF Sawin Baldwin Chair/Fund in Ovarian Cancer
  • Chair in Clinical Addictions (pending)

Strategic Partnerships

• Developed provisional plans for an Alberta Academic Health Science Centre to facilitate enhanced integration with the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services.
• Re-introduction of Inaugural Professorial Lectures, an event that engages the Faculty, the University and the greater community in a celebration of our newest professoriate.
• Major partnership agreement with Shantou University; incorporating 100 new shared PhD studentships.
• Research team strengthened by the University's appointment of an associate vice-president from the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry (Dr. Richard Fedorak) and the Faculty's appointment of an associate dean, clinical research.