Alvin Libin to be honoured for business accomplishments and philanthropic endeavours

Alvin Libin OC, a founding partner of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta and Chair of the Institute’s Community and Partners Advisory Committee, will be inducted into the Calgary Business Hall of Fame along with John Forzani and the late Theodore Rozsa at a ceremony in October 2010.

For more details, read ‘Hall Of Fame Adds To Ranks‘ in the June 11, 2010 edition of the Calgary Herald or ‘Alvin Libin to be Inducted‘ on the UCalgary Medicine Internet portal.

Prior honours:

Honourary Doctor of Laws, University of Calgary (1994)

Officer of the Order of Canada (2001)

Member of the Alberta Order of Excellence (2004)

Strategic Advisory Board Committee Meetings

The Libin Cardiovascular Institute‘s Strategic Advisory Board (SAB), chaired by Emeritus Professor Eldon R. Smith OC, has two committees. These are the International Experts Advisory Committee (IEAC), chaired by Emeritus Professor D. George Wyse and the Community and Partners Advisory Committee (CPAC), chaired by Mr. Alvin Libin. Meetings of these two committees recently took place as captured in the following images.

CPAC Chair Mr. Alvin Libin and other CPAC members listening to one of several presentations

Dr. Brenda Gerull delivering a presentation on CV Genetics

IEAC L to R - Dr. Marc Pfeffer, Harvard University, Dr. D. George Wyse, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Dr. Dan Roden, Vanderbilt University, Dr. Anthony DeMaria, UCSD

To learn more about the SAB, CPAC and IEAC, click on the following links:

Strategic Advisory Board

Community and Partners Advisory Committee

International Experts Advisory Committee