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Five summer student researchers who went on to do great things AUTHOR
ARTWORK BY
EDITED BY
AMY SAMSON
NATASIA DESIGNS
SASHA ROEDER MAH
THE LARGEST IN CANADA, THE UALBERTA FACULTY OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY’S SUMMER STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM BEGAN IN 1969. HERE ARE FIVE SUMMER-STUDENT RESEARCHERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH SCIENCE
Funding partners Since the 1980s, the program has been supported by the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Alberta Innovates, alumni donors, the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and many others .
Dennis Modry, ’73 MD A SUMMER OF WORK WITH
animal models. After training in surgery
ANIMAL MODELS LED TO THE
in Montreal, Modry accepted a position
FIRST HEART AND HEART-LUNG COMBINED TRANSPLANTS IN WESTERN CANADA
at Stanford, where he was chief of the transplant division before returning to the U of A in the 1980s to pilot a heart-lung transplant program. During that time, Modry performed the first
DENNIS MODRY, WHO graduated from
heart transplant and the first heart-lung
the U of A’s school of medicine in 1973,
combined transplant in Western Canada.
spent the summer after his first year
The University of Alberta Hospital’s heart
working in the Surgical-Medical Research
and lung transplant program is now one
Institute doing heart-lung transplants in
of the nation’s busiest.
Barbara Romanowski, ’73 MD PASSION FOR COMMUNITY
1973, followed by specialized training
HEALTH MADE FORMER
in infectious diseases. From 1979 until
SUMMER STUDENT A LEADER IN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE RESEARCH
1998, she was director of Alberta’s sexually transmitted diseases (STD) program and was involved with Edmonton’s AIDS Network, now HIV Edmonton. She has also been
IN 1970, BARBARA Romanowski
involved in humanpapillomavirus
presented at the summer student
(HPV) clinical trials for more than a
research day on a project with
decade and has published extensively
what was then the Department of
on STDs. She is currently a clinical
Community Medicine. Romanowski
professor in the division of infectious
completed her MD at the U of A in
diseases at the U of A.
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