{"id":14157,"date":"2021-11-09T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/?post_type=spucpt&p=14157"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:50:25","slug":"lori-west","status":"publish","type":"spucpt","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/spucpt\/lori-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lori West’s bio<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Dr. Lori West is a Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery,\u00a0Medical\u00a0Microbiology\/Immunology and Laboratory Medicine\/Pathology at the University of Alberta and Director of the Alberta Transplant Institute. A clinician-scientist, she has longstanding interest and expertise in pediatric heart transplantation and transplant immunology, particularly related to ABO glycoimmunology. Her pioneering work on crossing ABO-barriers led to global impact on infant heart transplantation. Dr. West is also the founding Director of the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, a national research coalition funded since 2013 by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Together with founding co-Director Dr. Marie-Jos\u00e9e H\u00e9bert, the CDTRP framework has grown to encompass collaborations in all streams of research with hundreds of investigators at 37 sites across Canada. Dr. West previously held the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Heart Transplantation. She is past-president of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and the Canadian Society of Transplantation, immediate past-chair of the Women in Transplantation international initiative of The Transplantation Society, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Transplantation. She is also an honorary lifetime member of the British Society of Transplantation. A Fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Dr. West was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"template":"","class_list":["post-14157","spucpt","type-spucpt","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spucpt\/14157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spucpt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/spucpt"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}