It’s that time of year again!

The 2012 Libin Bash will be held on the evening of Thursday June 14 at the TELUS Spark (Calgary’s new science centre)!  The Heart of Science includes entry to the science centre, a private reception, unveiling of a Libin Institute exhibit, and a night of exploration.  See the poster for details:

Click image to view poster

Ticket prices have been set at the blockbuster rate of $10 each for all Libin Members, Staff and Trainees (includes a 75% subsidy by the Institute).

TICKETS:

• FMC – Amber Arsneau / 403-944-2371
• PLC – Sherry Raven / 403-943-4565
• RGH - Karen Sarsfield /403-943-3716
• TRW/HRIC/HMRB – Ingrid Oliveira / 403-210-6271

There is a hard limit and the event is expected to fully sell out.  Get your tickets soon!

NOTE – this event is licensed and is strictly adult-only.

Vascular conference bridges global knowlege to local implementation

“Taming the Vascular Disease Epidemic: From Global to Local”

Calgary – Thursday October 21, 2010

The Libin Cardiovascular Institute is hosting a provincial conference on vascular health promotion disease prevention. International speakers and local experts will link global platforms with practical guidance at the patient level – going from ‘Global to Local’. The program includes global leaders from institutes such as the World Health Organization, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK and the Centre for Disease Control in the USA.

Registration is open to the full spectrum of: specialists, family physicians, trainees, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare workers with an interest in vascular health. For more information , please visit the conference web-site at: http://www.vascularconf.ca/

This conference follows on from a World Health Organization meeting in Calgary from October 18-20, which is being sponsored by Institute. Institute participants at this WHO international meeting include Dr. Norm Campbell and Dr. Charlene Elliott.

Cardiac Sciences Research Day – 2010

The Libin Institute‘s Cardiac Sciences Research Day was held on Thursday May 27, 2010 in the Libin Lecture Theatre of the University of Calgary’s Health Science Centre.  The event is held annually to thank staff and students for their considerable and on-going contribution to the Libin Institute and to recognize their dedication to Cardiac Care.   The event was attended by more than 130 staff, students, researchers and physicians.

Feedback about the event:

• “Great and diverse selection of interesting topics”
• “Dr. Fedak’s study is fascinating”
• “Love the variety of topics and the inclusion of both clinical and basic science”
• “Very informative day”
• “Loved that most speakers incorporated direct patient care applications”

Thank you to our speakers, and to everyone who came out to enjoy the day – we’ll see you again next year~!

Libin HSF Lab Tours

On the evening of Monday March 16th 2009, the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta hosted lab tours for volunteers of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, NWT & Nunavut. This was a wonderful opportunity for the Institute to showcase the amazing work that the HSF supports to those who work so hard to raise funds one door at a time. Currently, twenty four of the Libin researchers are funded by the HSF.

Special thanks go to those who volunteered to make this event a success: Principal Investigators (Drs. Anderson, Hutchinson, Exner, Childs, Fedak, Duff, Loutzenhiser, Patel and Chen), lab staff and guides, Kakali Majumdar and the HSF team, Sasha Wiens and the CHAMP team (including UCalgary Nursing Students and Dennis Rabel of the Calgary Fire Department) and the Libin team (including Gerry Groves, Candace Liedtke and Shauna Wilkinson et al).

Below are a few image thumbnails from the event (click for larger images):

Heart & Stroke Foundation display and information desk

LCIA display highlighting HSF funded researchers

CHAMP display and information table

UCalgary Nursing Students – BP & Cholesterol testing

Opening remarks – Dr. L. Brent Mitchell, Director, LCIA

HSF Volunteers

HSF staff volunteers registering HSF volunteers

If you attended or participated in this event, please feel free to leave your comments!

Related Prior Story – Dr. Norm Campbell Receives National HSF Award

Heart Failure Epidemic?

Grand Rounds on the Internet

The first of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta‘s on-line and interactive Vascular Grand Rounds was held the evening of February 24th 2009. The benefits of leveraging the Internet for such rounds is that we are able to engage in an interactive way, individuals who are geographically dispersed throughout our service area and beyond.

Dr. Jonathan Howlett

Is there really a heart failure epidemic? Why heart failure may become a young person’s problem

Replay Available! Click Here

Prior LCIA sponsored session on Obesity Click Here

On-line session on Obesity

The Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta is experimenting with on-line public sessions on a variety on topics related to cardiovascular health. On February 23rd 2009, the Institute was a co-sponsor of an on-line session on obesity delivered by Dr. Arya Sharma, Scientific Director of the Canadian Obesity Network. The session was attended by participants from throughout North America!

A recording of the session is available – Click Here

Related educational resources can be found at:

• Dr. Sharma’s Blog
• LCIA Patient Resource Centre

NEW – Health Information Library

Over one thousand topics of health information are available on the Health Information Library. The topics have been developed by Alberta Health Services – Calgary clinical experts. Click the image below or click Here:

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF documents.

Related – check out the Human Atlas videos

Related – see education materials in the LCIA’s Patient Resource Centre

Preeminent Researcher’s Calgary Visit

A busy day for Dr. Valentin Fuster in Calgary …

As many will know, world renowned cardiovascular researcher, Dr. Valentin Fuster, was in Calgary January 15th to receive the Libin/AHFMR Prize for Excellence in Cardiovascular Researcher. What many may not know was just how busy a day it was for Dr. Fuster!

Audience at Dr. Fuster's Science Lecture

The morning started with a scientific lecture at UCalgary Health Sciences Centre Theatre Three. This was a very well attended session with approximately one-hundred researchers, clinicians, trainees and staff present. By the time the lecture started

PUBLIC SESSION – On-line & Interactive – Improving your Heart Health for Life

Dr. Ellen Burgess will be delivering an on-line session on Improving your Heart Health for all, but particularly patients of Heart Failure. As opposed to other on-line sessions that you may have participated in, this session will be unique in that it will also be interactive!

Following are the particulars:

What: Improving your Heart Health for Life

Who: Everyone, particularly patients

When: Monday January 26th from 7:00 to 8:30pm

Where: On-line (IE from your couch)

How: Register at www.heartscript.com (you’ll be sent a link to use on the day of the session)

Cost: zip! zero! nada!

After the session, we’d love for participants to come visit the blog and leave comments about the technology that will have been employed. It is something new for many, and thus we want to hear opinions.

Dr. Ellen Burgess is Professor, Division of Renal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UCalgary Faculty of Medicine and Member, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta.

2008 Libin AHFMR Prize!

Dr. Valentin Fuster named winner!

2008 Libin / Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Prize for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research.

Dr. Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Valentin Fuster, Director of Mount Sinai Heart, the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, is a past president of both the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation. Among his numerous decorations, he has been awarded honorary degrees by over twenty distinguished universities. For a more complete bio of Dr. Fuster, Click Here.

A must attend public lecture by Dr. Fuster!

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:
A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR NORTH AMERICANS
A TSUNAMI FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD

6:30pm on January 15, 2009

Libin Lecture Theatre

Health Sciences Centre

3350 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB

To view related UCalgary article, Click Here
To view or download a poster, Click Here