2025 Recipients of LevMax-Health: Tri-agency Spring 2024 Competition 

Lead Applicant 

LevMax-Health Stream 

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Puneeta Tandon, MD, UAlberta 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

Empowering caregivers: a multicentre randomized controlled trial to improve caregiver outcomes 

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Yuk Joseph Ting, MBBS, MD(Res), UAlberta 

 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Developing a national approach to surveillance and prevention for neonatal ventilator-associated pneumonia 

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Tyrone Harrison, MD, PhD, UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

Improving Prediction of Hospital Readmission: Development of a Prediction Framework and Novel Prediction Tool 

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Steven Boyd, PhD, P.Eng., UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Advanced multi-modal imaging to monitor progressive joint adaptation in the knee following an acute ligament injury 

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Scott Ryan, PhD, UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

FIBIR – Fibril-based imaging for diagnosis and prognostication of Parkinson’s Disease 

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Braedon McDonald, MD, PhD, UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

A digital approach to biomedical discovery and therapeutic innovation for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in intensive care units 

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Gregory Kawchuk, PhD, UAlberta 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Primary care implementation of a no-cost education and exercise program for chronic low back pain (GLA:D Back) 

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Catherine Eastwood, PhD, UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

PRRAM-HF: Advancing Personalized Readmission Risk Assessment Models for Heart Failure 

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Fabiana T Almeida Marques, PhD, UAlberta 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Early detection of temporomandibular joint arthritis in children at the point of care by ultrasound augmented with artificial intelligence 

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Oluwabukola Salami, PhD, UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Health Service Use and Health Outcomes of Black People in Canada: Co-Development of Innovative Interventions and Strategies 

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Manal Kleib, PhD, UAlberta 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Empowering Canadian Nurses to Deliver the Digital Health Future 

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Ethan MacDonald, PhD, P.Eng., UCalgary 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Development and Validation of Image Translation Models that Estimate Amyloid-Beta, Fluorodeoxyglucose, and Tau PET Images from Structural MRI 

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May Sanaee, MD, UAlberta  

 

LevMax-Health Tri-Agency Spring 2024 

 

Evaluation of a Novel Personalized Pessary Treatment for Pelvic Organ Prolapse 

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