The Northern Alberta Vascular Centre provides inpatient and outpatient vascular care to a population of 2.3 million in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Territories. The program attracts top surgical specialists in the field, who perform about 2,300 procedures a year at our site.

We deliver, oversee and support numerous education, policy, and research projects related to palliative care, in areas ranging from public policy development and research in pain management and symptom assessment to psychosocial and spiritual aspects.

Alberta Health Services’ (AHS) Health System Access (HSA) team works with Alberta’s academic institutions, affiliated research institutes and centres to support health research. If your research requires access to AHS areas or facilities, data or IT systems, patients or staff, the necessary approvals for each resource requirement must be obtained.

We work with sponsors and researchers to access 27 facilities in 20 communities across Alberta. The center offers operational/administrative support, reviews and approvals.

The office serves as the initial point of contact and primary coordinating office for clinical trials conducted at the University of Alberta, bringing together all expertise in one place: regulatory, financial, operational and more.

The office serves as the initial point of contact and primary coordinating office for clinical trials conducted at the University of Calgary, bringing together all expertise in one place: regulatory, financial, operational and more. The office also offers AHS Liaison services and quality assurance and regulatory compliance services.

The OnCore CTMS is a new system designed to enhance Alberta’s clinical trial infrastructure by increasing efficiencies in clinical trial management. The new system will enable improved study quality, budget management and regulatory compliance as a result of automated processes. The cloud-based solution, which is used by leading research institutions including Yale University, Duke University, and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre, offers key benefits to clinical trials

REBX streamlines ethics application process for multi-site research in Alberta. It’s a simple, easy-to-use tool,
built into the ethics application platform at your institution.

The BioCORE provides biobanking and bioanalysis support for researchers undertaking pediatric translational research projects at the University of Calgary and the Alberta Children’s Hospital. The BioCORE provides bioanalysis support, including immounoassays, and metabolic analysis.

The Hotchkiss Real-World Evidence (RWE) platform is a new virtual data platform established to assist HBI scientists with accessing, integrating, and analysing routinely collected health data, data from clinical registries, and external sources of data including surveys and population-based datasets. The key functions of the RWE initiative are to facilitate collaborations between investigators and stakeholders at HBI, UofC, Alberta and nationally, access to routinely collected healthcare data, linkage of investigator-collected data, or external data sources, and dataset creation and analysis.