Research Expertise

Pharmacy and Nutrition researchers advance knowledge and pursue solutions to health and healthcare system issues. The College conducts research in 3 streams:

Researchers in this stream advance knowledge to prevent and manage illness and optimize health and well-being.

	Megan Beggs Pediatric nutrition, micronutrients, human milk, nutrient transport physiology
	David Blackburn Adherence, pharmacist interventions, drug utilization, health outcomes
	Allison Cammer Nutrition and aging, dementia, long-term care, and end of life nutrition care
	Kelsey Cochrane Maternal nutrition, human milk, perinatal health
	Roy Dobson Patient assessments of quality, pharmacy practice
	Charity Evans Multiple sclerosis, pharmacoepidemiology
	Katelyn Halpape Mental health, substance use disorders, chronic pain, pharmacy practice, ketamine for major depressive disorder
	Carol Henry School health, community health, food systems, global health
	Derek Jorgenson Mental health, addictions concurrent disorders, pharmacy practice, knowledge translation
	Jessica Lieffers Oral health and nutrition, nutrition ehealth and mhealth, dietetic professional practice, qualitative research
	Anisha Mahajan Community-based participatory approaches for early-life lifestyle health promotion programs; Racial diversity in the dietetics workforce; Sugar, non-nutritive sweetener, and sodium intake in young children
	Holly Mansell Solid organ transplantation, adherence, patient education, pharmacy practice, cannabis in children and youth
	Kerry Mansell Diabetes, pharmacy practice
	Jason Perepelkin Organizational theory, behaviour, and structure, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, management of/in community pharmacies, marketing
	Yvonne Shevchuk Infectious diseases/antibiotics, interprofessional education, drug information
	Andrea Tang Pediatric pharmacotherapy, barriers to drug therapy, pediatric pharmaceuticals, infectious diseases pharmacotherapy, and scholarship of teaching and learning.
	Jeff Taylor Self-medication, factors influencing patient counseling, patient education
	Hassan Vatanparast Nutritional epidemiology, nutrition and chronic diseases
	Susan Whiting Calcium metabolism, vitamin D status, bone health
	Erin Yakiwchuk Geriatrics, polypharmacy, deprescribing, dementia, Parkinson's disease, long-term care

Our nutrition scientists seek to understand how foods and nutrients affect the molecular and physiological mechanisms involved in health and disease.

	Brian Bandy Oxidative stress, bioactivities of dietary flavonoids and polyphenols, mitochondrial respiration and biogenesis
	Megan Beggs Pediatric nutrition, micronutrients, human milk, nutrient transport physiology
	Kelsey Cochrane Maternal nutrition, human milk, perinatal health
	Jim Fang Absorption and health effects of Prairie fruits
	Phyllis Paterson Nutrition and post-stroke recovery, malnutrition, nutritional neuroscience, preclinical modelling of disease
	Hassan Vatanparast Global health, immigration heath, food security
	Susan Whiting Calcium metabolism, vitamin D status, bone health

Researchers in this stream are developing therapeutic applications for new and existing drugs and bioactive compounds.

	Jane Alcorn Preclinical/clinical drug discovery and development, pharmacokinetics (animal and human), human clinical trials and pharmaceutical analysis
	Ildiko Badea Nano-formulations for non-invasive drug delivery
	Brian Bandy Oxidative stress, bioactivities of dietary flavonoids and polyphenols, mitochondrial respiration and biogenesis
	Kate Dadachova Radioimmunotherapy of cancer and infectious diseases, radio- protectors for cancer patients military personnel, and astronauts
	Anas El-Aneed Analytical mass spectrometry, targeted metabolomics, validated methods
	Azita Haddadi Nanotechnology, PLGA nanoparticles, cancer vaccines, targeted cancer therapy
	Ed Krol Drug metabolism of natural products, synthesis of biologically active natural product analogues, development of probe molecules for imaging
	Robert Laprairie G protein-coupled receptors, cannabinoid pharmacology and pharmacology, serotonin and orexin receptors
	Randy Purves Analytical mass spectrometry, untargeted metabolomics, ion mobility-mass spectrometry instrument development, veterinary drug residues, polyphenols
	Meena Sakharkar Identifying novel anticancer and anti-Parkinson drug design targets
	Ellen Wasan Lipid-based drug delivery, self-assembling systems for drug and nucleic acid delivery (nanoparticles, liposomes), physical pharmacy, drug formulation, vaccine development
	Jian Yang Structure and function of enzymes, genomics, and anti- microbial agents