{"id":20329,"date":"2022-11-01T08:13:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2022-11-01T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:13:43","slug":"theme-3-new-co-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/theme-3-new-co-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"CDTRP Theme 3 is pleased to announce its new co-leads: Drs. Ana Konvalinka and Sibal Haykal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CDTRP Theme 3 is pleased to announce its new co-leads: Drs. Ana Konvalinka and Sibal Haykal<\/strong><\/h4>\n

After many years of service, Drs Jean-S\u00e9bastien Delisle and Markus Selzner will transition out of their roles as Theme 3 leads, but they will remain active CDTRP members. We want to thank Jean-S\u00e9bastien and Markus for the dedication, passion, enthusiasm, and motivation they have brought to Theme 3 (Engineer and Allocate Better Grafts)<\/a>! We are pleased to welcome Drs Ana Konvalinka<\/strong> and Siba Haykal<\/strong> who will be joining Ms. Shilpa Raju, patient partner, as the Academic Co-Leads.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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About Dr. Ana Konvalinka<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Dr. Ana Konvalinka (MD, PhD, FRCPC) is a clinician scientist and transplant nephrologist at the University Health Network in Toronto. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. She was born and raised in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, and moved to Canada in 1993. Following a bachelor\u2019s degree in Human Biology at the University of Toronto, Dr. Konvalinka completed medical studies at the University of Ottawa in 2003. She then completed internal medicine and nephrology training in Toronto in 2008. She subsequently embarked on a PhD in basic science, under the supervision of Dr. James Scholey and Dr. Eleftherios Diamandis. Her PhD thesis addressed the effect of angiotensin II on the proteome of primary human proximal tubular cells, and the relevance of this effect in vivo. Following completion of her PhD in 2013, she went on to do the clinical kidney transplant fellowship at Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Konvalinka joined faculty at the University Health Network in 2015.<\/p>\n

Her main clinical and research interests are in antibody-mediated rejection and kidney allograft fibrosis. She utilizes systems biology approaches and proteomics to enhance the understanding of the mechanisms, derive novel markers and to repurpose drugs for treatment of kidney disease. Dr. Konvalinka is the director of the Multi-Organ Transplant biobank for kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant programs at the Ajmera Transplant Centre. She has received international research awards (the Human Proteome Project (2016), the American Society of Transplantation Faculty-Development Research Grant (2016) and the Advances in Organ Transplantation Award (2015)) and national research awards (Canadian Society of Transplantation Research Excellence Award (2020), Canadian Society of Nephrology New Investigator Lectureship (2017) and the KRESCENT New Investigator Award (2016)).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I am delighted to be part of this energetic and collaborative national research program. I want to be able to impact and strengthen basic science and to lead future collaborative projects in Theme 3.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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About Dr. Siba Haykal<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Dr. Haykal graduated from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine in 2007 as class valedictorian and silver medalist, and subsequently completed her residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2016. During her residency, she completed a four-year Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and immunology with a focus on tracheal reconstruction. She obtained numerous grants and awards including a CIHR Vanier Scholarship. Dr. Haykal then pursued fellowship training in microsurgical reconstruction at the Albany Medical Centre in New York. Dr. Haykal joined the University Health Network and the Toronto General Hospital in 2018. Her clinical focus is on complex oncological reconstruction and microsurgical reconstruction of the breast, head and neck and extremity. She started a lymphedema program in 2019 where she offers microsurgical techniques for the treatment of lymphedema. Her research focuses on tissue-engineered techniques for tracheal reconstruction and the immunology of vascularized composite allotransplantation as well as long term outcomes of lymphedema surgery. Dr. Haykal has been the recipient of numerous grants (most recently NFRF and CIHR) and awards for her clinical, academic and research work, and is the author of several peer-reviewed publications. In 2021, Dr. Haykal was named as an honoree of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. She was also recently awarded Top 40 under 40 by the Association of Women Surgeons.<\/p>\n

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“I am so excited to have taken on this role of Theme 3 Co-Lead. I am looking forward to working with all of you to make an impact at the CDTRP.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20331,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions\/20331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}