Caitlin Anstee, a software developer and database manager, joined Dr. Seely’s research team in 2010 with expertise in assisting with the software and databases inherent to clinical research, and has developed interactive tablet-optimized web-apps to harvest data during surgeon-patient encounters in the clinic and OR. She is part of the Thoracic Surgery Data Management Center (TSDMC) that manages the national database on behalf of the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (CATS).
Edita Delic is a research assistant in Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Ottawa Hospital. Ms. Delic started her career in research in April 2007 with Kidney Research Center and joined Dr. Seely’s research team in April 2016 where she is involved in the coordination of clinical research studies in Thoracic Surgery as well as being tissue navigator in the Department of Surgery at The Ottawa Hospital which includes the coordination and collection of surgical tissue samples for clinical and scientific studies. Ms. Delic has been member of SOCRA since 2010.
Anna Fazekas (MA, CCRP) is the Clinical Research Program manager for the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Ottawa Hospital. Ms. Fazekas joined Dr Andrew Seely’s clinical research team in 2010 and has extensive experience in clinical trial coordination and in managing multi-centre trials, including those that require Health Canada approval.
Molly Gingrich (MSc) joined Dr Andrew Seely’s research team in Oct. 2019 as a research assistant with the CATSQIP program (Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Improvement Project) and assists with coordination of clinical research studies in Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care as well as grant writing for thoracic surgery research.
Christophe Herry (PhD, PEng) joined Dr Andrew Seely’s Dynamical Analysis Lab in January 2012. Dr Herry is a clinical research associate and Team Leader in the Dynamical Analysis Lab with a background in biomedical engineering and signal processing. He has years of experience supporting the technical aspects of Dr. Seely’s studies as well as the DAL’s collaborators, including: physiological and clinical data acquisition setup and monitoring, physiological waveform processing, variability and complexity analysis, predictive modelling and machine learning and applied statistical analysis. Dr. Herry has co-authored 37 journal publications since joining the DAL lab and is a co-inventor on several patents pertaining to multiorgan variability analysis.
Mark Legacy joined Dr. Andrew Seely’s research team as a volunteer in October 2017, and moved to a full time Research Assistant position with his brother Dr. Dugald Seely in July 2018. Together, the Seely duo function as co-supervisors for Mark’s work. Mark’s research is based out of The Centre for Health Innovation (CHI), an integrative care clinic, where his research focuses on integrating complementary and alternative therapies alongside conventional medical care provided at most hospitals. Mark functions as trial coordinator at the CHI and is involved in the development, implementation, day-to-day activities, and publication of all their research studies. Mark often works collaboratively with the Thoracic Surgery team, namely on the AMPLCaRe and Thoracic POISE projects.
Kimberley Newman (PhD) joined Dr Seely’s research team as a scientific writer in December 2006. Dr Newman completed a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Alberta with a focus on novel vaccine delivery systems for the induction of cellular immune responses, and completed a two postdoctoral fellowships on 1) “Biodegradable Polymer Matrices for the In Vitro Culture and Transplantation of Embryonic Stem cells” at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Centre for Cancer Therapeutics and 2) “Novel Hybrid Biomaterials for Cardiac and Nerve Repair” at the University of Ottawa Eye Institute. As lead scientific writer, Dr. Newman has extensive experience and expertise in the writing and preparation of manuscripts and grant submissions and is responsible for the preparation and submission of scientific publications as well as industry, academic and government grants.
Nathan Scales (MASc, PhD), has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University and a PhD in quantitative Physiology from McGill, with expertise in mathematical and statistical modeling, stochastic simulations, and data fitting. After joining Dr. Seely’s Dynamical Analysis Lab in 2014, Dr. Scales was responsible for the acquisition and analysis of waveform data for the DePPaRT study, and combined variability analysis with machine learning to develop a model to predict the likelihood of fast death after the withdrawal of life sustaining measures. This predictive model is currently being developed into a clinical decision support tool, called Donation Advisor, which is the subject of an implementation study funded by Health Canada.
