Dr. Carla Prado is a Professor and Registered Dietitian at the University of Alberta, and a Campus Alberta Innovates (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food and Health. She is the Director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit, one of the top research and training facilities for body composition and energy metabolism assessments worldwide. Carla is an expert in assessing nutritional status through the precise measurement of body composition and energy metabolism. The focus of her current research program is to investigate the prevalence and health outcomes of abnormal body composition phenotypes in patients with diverse chronic conditions. She is also developing targeted nutrition interventions to optimize body composition, particularly muscle mass in these patients. She is an Associate Editor of Clinical Nutrition, the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, and Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care. Dr. Prado is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest academic honor in the country for early-career researchers, and has recently received the title of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100.

Dr. Amy Kirkham is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Health in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education at the University of Toronto. Her research uses advanced imaging and lifestyle interventions to understand, treat, and improve the health of women with cancer and cardiovascular disease. The overarching goal of Dr. Kirkham's research program is to use a multi-disciplinary approach that leverages cutting-edge, non-invasive, imaging techniques to study precisely prescribed, mechanistically targeted, lifestyle interventions to prevent and ameliorate cardiovascular dysfunction and disease, with an emphasis on women. A primary focus is on cardiovascular disease in breast cancer survivors, the top causes of death of women in Canada. While exercise is a key diagnostic and therapeutic tool, Dr. Kirkham takes a multi-disciplinary approach in her lab to characterize and treat individuals with cardiac and/or oncologic disease. Intervention approaches of interest include acute and chronic exercise, calorie restricted, intermittent fasting, and ketogenic nutrition approaches, and multi-dimensional cardiac rehabilitation.

Dr. Edith Pituskin completed her PhD in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta. Her PhD work has focused on the cardiotoxic effects of traditional and novel anti-cancer therapies. She is a clinician scientist with and advance practice nursing background. She is a Co-Lead of the Edmonton Cardiology-Oncology Research (ENCORE) program, which aims to prevent, diagnose, and treat the cardiotoxic effects of cancer therapies. In collaboration with the Department of Oncology, Cardiology, and Faculties of Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Medicine, they have initiated several clinical and research projects in this area. She also aims to improve accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of health services by studying the contributions of multiple health care providers across the cancer care trajectory. Dr. Pituskin a strong clinical and publication background in trans-disciplinary team working across multiple health care settings .

Dr. Christa Aubrey completed her medical school and residency training at the University of Alberta in Obstetrics and Gynecology. During this time, she also completed an MSc in Global Health, specifically utilizing qualitative methodology from the University of Alberta through the Clinician Investigator Program. She then completed her Gynecologic Oncology fellowship at the University of Calgary. She is now a Gynecologic Oncologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include endometrial cancer, social determinants of health, medical education, and qualitative research methods in addition to quantitative methods to aid in more thoroughly understanding disease processes and social factors. 

Dr. Sinasac obtained her medical degree at McMaster University. She completed her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology and fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Toronto. During her fellowship she attended Harvard University, where she obtained her Master’s degree in Public Health. She spent the early years of her career practicing in the greater Toronto area, most recently at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, and joined the Division in Ottawa in 2019. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program Director at the University of Ottawa. She is the Chair of the Education Committee at The Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada (GOC), and the founder and co-Chair of the GOC Community of Practice in Obesity, where she works to improve outcomes for patients with obesity and gynecologic malignancies. Dr. Sinasac has extensive training in advanced laparoscopic surgery and has an interest in surgical skills education.

Dr. Andrea Simpson is an obstetrician, clinical epidemiologist, and health services researcher with an interest in access to health care and care pathways. Dr. Simpson is an investigator with MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, and an obstetrician and minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and an adjunct scientist at ICES. She holds an MSc in Health Services Research from the University of Toronto’s Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. She is active in both postgraduate and undergraduate medical education and has won a number of teaching awards, including the St. Michael’s Hospital Student Experience Award. Dr. Simpson holds a Physicians’ Services Incorporated New Investigator Grant and a CIHR Early Career Investigator Grant.

Dr. Sophia Pin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Alberta. She holds the position of ERAS Gynecologic Oncology Lead of the North/Edmonton Zone and is a member of the Surgical SCN Committee. She attended medical school at the University of Calgary, then finished her residency training at the University of Alberta. She subsequently completed her fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Calgary. She recently completed a Master’s in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto.

Her research interests include studies in Quality Improvement, with a project in same day discharge, and the creation of an Endometrial Cancer Database that led to a prospective study on Endometrial Cancer, obesity, and weight loss, as well as a retrospective study looking at the incidence of recurrent endometrial cancer.

Dr. Sarah Ferguson is a Gynecologic Oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto, and an Associate Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital. She obtained her medical degree at Queen’s University and completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training at the University of Toronto. Subsequently, she pursued a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is currently the Director of Research for the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University Health Network and the Ontario Gynecologic Cancers Lead for Cancer Care Ontario. Her clinical and research interests include: improving surgical techniques and patient outcomes, survivorship and supportive care as well as hereditary cancer syndromes in gynecology, in particular Lynch syndrome. Dr. Ferguson is currently opening a multi-disciplinary trial investigating bariatric surgery for fertility maintenance in endometrial cancer patients who wish to conceive.  

Dr. Maira Quintanilha acquired a wealth of experience in qualitative health research through her masters, doctorate, and work as a qualitative researcher, instructor and consultant through Quali Q Inc. Her PhD work – for which she was awarded a Vanier Graduate Scholarship – was primarily qualitative, and successfully published in four peer-reviewed journals, one book chapter (upcoming), as well as presented in multiple local, national and international conferences. Upon completion of her PhD, she continued refining her qualitative skills as the principal researcher with Quali Q Inc. and as an evaluator for a large partnership called “All In for Youth.” Some of her research work as a consultant with Quali Q has been successfully published. She developed two online courses (Qualitative Research Blueprint and Qualitative Data Analysis Masterclass) that have been highly appraised by over 100 individuals in Canada, the US and worldwide. She was nominated and voted in as an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Sciences in 2021.

Dr. Horst is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Nutrition (FANUT) and a tenured professor in the graduate program of Nutrition and Health at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). She also holds a Registered Dietitian title in Brazil. Dr. Horst received her PhD in Food Science from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP) and later completed two postdoctoral fellowships: the first in Food Science at USP and the second in Cancer Molecular Biology at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Dr. Horst is a co-organizer of the book Nutritional Genomics: From Fundamentals to Molecular Nutrition and leader of the working group "Nutritional Genomics and Metabolic Changes Related to Chronic Non-communicable Diseases". Her expertise lies in Nutritional Genomics, Experimental Nutrition and Molecular Biology. She mainly focuses on chemoprevention, gene expression, nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, epigenetics, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and miRNAs.

Christina M. Dieli-Conwright is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Population Sciences of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She holds a secondary appointment as Associate Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health. Her research is focused on examining mechanisms by which post-diagnosis exercise can impact cancer prognosis with a specific focus on biomarkers of metabolic dysregulation related to tumor growth, inflammation, gut microbiome, and body composition. She derives randomized controlled trials to test whether various types of prescriptive exercise improve cancer outcomes in individuals diagnosed with cancer, across the lifespan, from adolescents and young adults to older adults. Additionally, Dr. Dieli-Conwright examines cardiometabolic diseases in underrepresented minority cancer survivors and utilizes lifestyle interventions to reduce the onset or exacerbation of comorbidities in said population. Dr. Dieli-Conwright has a history of funding from the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and foundation grants.

Dr. Julia Sheffler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the Florida State University College of Medicine, and is the Director of the Integrative Science for Health Aging research program at the FSU Center for Translational Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Sheffler's research focuses on improving scientific understanding of risk and resiliency factors related to late-life health and cognitive functioning, with training geared toward understanding the complex biopsychosocial pathways through which neurocognitive disorders develop, which involves how adverse childhood experiences alter biological pathways and influences the onset of late-life disease. Using this background, Dr. Sheffler is currently examining psychosocial and behavioral intervention development for improving late-life health. Dr. Sheffler received her Bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University, her Master's and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University, and completed her clinical internship at the Denver VA Medical Center.

Sunita Ghosh received her master’s degree in Mathematics from Kanpur University, India, followed by her PhD in Biostatistics from University of Saskatchewan in 2007. She is currently working as a Senior Scientist at the Department of Public Health Sciences. Prior to joining Henry Ford Health, she worked at Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care as a Research Scientist for about 17 years and as a Research Biostatistician in the Department of Agriculture Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. She is also associated with the Department of Medical Oncology, College of Health Sciences, as an Adjunct Associate Professor. Her research interests are in the areas of Cancer Biostatistics, longitudinal data analysis, model prognostication, predictive analysis, survival analysis, quality of life data analysis, and genetic analysis. Apart from her collaborative research work at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary, she also serves as an elected member of Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) - Accreditation committee, Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta (HREBA). She holds a Professional Statistician designation from American Statistical Association (ASA) and Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). 

Dr. Richard Thompson is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta.  His research focuses on the development and application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. Novel imaging methods target structure, function, tissue damage (fibrosis), edema, and metabolism using custom quantitative approaches in combination with artificial intelligence methods for post-processing.  His methods are applied to a broad range of targeted organs (heart, lungs, liver, skeletal muscle, and fat) and diseases (heart failure, cancer, diabetes, COVID, and metabolic syndrome) in collaboration (locally, nationally, and internationally) with scientists and clinicians in Cardiology, Radiology, Nursing, nutrition, and Kinesiology. Dr. Thompson received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics and his PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Alberta, and completed a fellowship with the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda before joining as a faculty member at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Mark Haykowsky is a Professor and Endowed Research Chair in Aging and Quality of Life in the Faculty of Nursing, College of Health Sciences at the University of Alberta. Professor Haykowsky’s internationally recognized research program examines the biological mechanisms underpinning the decline in cardiovascular health and fitness across the healthy aging and heart failure continuum, and the role of lifestyle interventions to improve cardiovascular and skeletal muscle function, and quality of life. A second research area is in the Cardio-Oncology field with focus on the role of exercise rehabilitation to prevent cardiovascular toxicity across the breast cancer survivorship continuum. A final research area is in sport cardiology with a focus on cardiac remodeling and mechanics in athletes. Dr. Haykowsky has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals and has been invited as a speaker for over 230 national and international scientific meetings. He has also been an ‘expert working group’ member for several National Institutes of Health (NIH) heart failure initiatives. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Sports Medicine.

Robert Welsh is a Professor and academic interventional cardiologist at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and University of Alberta. He is Edmonton Zone Clinical Department Head, Cardiac Sciences; Co-chair of Vital Heart Response (STEMI regional reperfusion program) and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation program (TAVI). Clinical research interests are focused on Acute Coronary Syndromes and Interventional Cardiology. Further research interests include: Diabetes Mellitus and cardiac physiology. He has published over 175 peer reviewed articles, multiple book chapters and greater than 150 scientific abstracts. In collaboration with colleagues he has received a Canadian Institute of Health Research-Canadian Medical Association Journal Top Canadian Achievements in Health Research Award. He is a faculty member at the Canadian VIGOUR Centre focused on collaborative regional, national and international research. He is currently on the executive committee of 5 international trials and co-chairs a research adjudication committee. He initiated the Heartbeat Run Series to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease and risk factor management and raise funds for local Hospital Foundations and Charities. 

Sandy is a survivor of endometrial cancer and she is happy to participate in this project as a voice for endometrial cancer survivors. Sandy participated previously in one of our co-investigator’s pre-surgical weight loss study. After participating in the study, she realized there was no support system that could help her continue to keep losing weight or maintain her weight loss. That is why Sandy is excited about the proposed tools offered by the RESILIENCE trial since she thinks they will provide support to endometrial cancer survivors to be successful in their journey. Sandy is a retired teacher, who worked for 39 years teaching in Ontario, Africa (Lesotho), Jasper, and Sangudo. She’s currently a Town of Mayerthorpe Councillor and Deputy Mayer. She’s passionate about public speaking, and she has participated in multiple conferences and conventions. Some of her interests are traveling, reading, writing, live theatre, and spending time with her family.

Winnie is one of the RESILIENCE trial's patient partners. She is a survivor of endometrial cancer, and she firmly believes in the importance of building self-confidence to help endometrial cancer survivors achieve successful improvements in their behaviours. She suggested the engagement of caregivers and family members during the intervention to engage them in a healthy lifestyle while supporting endometrial cancer survivors along their journey. After retiring from a 32-year career with the Alberta Public Service a decade ago, Winnie started to learn about physical fitness and good nutrition. She became a passionate advocate for healthy living after surviving cancer. Winnie is the President of the Anne Burrows Music Foundation, a 100% volunteer-based non-profit she co-founded in 1980.  Since 2013, she sits on the Board of the LeeCaring Community Foundation, which constructs, manages, and operates long-term care facilities in Edmonton. Winnie is a caregiver for her aging parents when in Edmonton and babysits her grandson when in Vancouver. She enjoys the best of both worlds! In her free time, she enjoys walking, hiking, music, tennis, and meeting up with family and friends.

Camila is a PhD student in the Nutrition and Metabolism program at the University of Alberta, working with Dr. Prado. Previously, she earned a master’s degree in the same program at the UofA and a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Technology in Paraná, Brazil. Camila’s efforts have focused on improving people’s physical activity and nutrition behaviours to support optimal body composition, health, and wellbeing. Throughout her research training, she has gained first-hand experience in conducting exercise and nutrition studies as well as evaluating body composition in a wide range of clinical groups (including children with obesity, postmenopausal women, cancer survivors, and lung transplant candidates). Her current PhD research focuses on investigating the efficacy of a multimodal and digital intervention to improve the health, body composition, and chronic disease risk factors for people living in larger bodies. 

Bárbara Gonze is a Ph.D. student in Kinesiology at the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Amy Kirkham. Originally from Brazil, she completed her degree at the Federal University of São Paulo, both in Physiotherapy and Physical Education. Before diving into her Ph.D., Bárbara also completed a Master's in Health Sciences and a Graduate Specialization in Exercise Physiology at the same institution. She has more than 8 years of experience working in a cohort study that investigated how physical activity habits impact the health of adults and elderly people. She also has more than 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals and served as a part-time professor at the Faculty of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy at Sao Paulo State University. Her main research interests are cardiovascular health and exercise physiology. Currently, she is deeply engaged in studying cardiovascular disease in women, mainly endometrial cancer survivors.

Homa completed her BSc of Science in Chemistry, with a minor in Biological Sciences, at the University of Calgary in 2018. Realizing her passion about making a difference in people’s lives to promote their health, she subsequently enrolled in the BSc of Nutrition and Food Science, Dietetics Specialization at the University of Alberta. During her undergraduate degree, she researched the efficiency and feasibility of current malnutrition screening tools in acute care settings. After completing a one-year Dietetic internship, she aspired to explore clinical nutrition research further and to focus on how nutrition and lifestyle interventions can positively impact a person’s overall wellbeing and quality of life. Homa is a graduate student in Nutrition and Metabolism, supervised by Dr. Prado, her research will aim to investigate how digital platforms can be used to improve the health of endometrial cancer survivors. 

Yelyzaveta received her Bachelor degree in Dietetics from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, her home country. Being highly involved in broadening her knowledge, she started her Master’s in Laboratory Diagnostics at the same university and spent one year on an Erasmus Program at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy, on a Medicine and Surgery program. During this program, she wrote a master thesis and an article devoted to prothymosin-alpha as an inflammatory marker in obesity. She has been presenting her work at conferences and gaining knowledge about nutrition and nutrition-related conditions in courses in Germany and Ukraine. Moreover, Yelyzaveta completed a Master degree in Pedagogy, and she is currently a Master student in Human Nutrition in Dr. Prado’s lab after receiving a Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship to study at the University of Alberta.

Teresita received her Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Master's in Public Nutrition, both with maximum distinction, all from Chile, her home country.

She worked as a Registered Dietician, helping with nutritional and lifestyle counselling for individuals who needed changes to manage body weight, gastrointestinal conditions, autoimmune diseases, and chronic conditions. She always assured her counselling was research-based on order to give the best care to her patients. After gaining experience in the clinical human nutrition area, she started her Master's in Public Nutrition and health promotion. After that, she designed, led, and published the first nationwide study of the environmental impact of the Chilean diet. Since then, her interest in food and nutrition research has only grown.

She is currently working as Research Coordinator at Dr. Carla Prado's lab. In her free time, she enjoys doing yoga, bicycling, spending time in nature, cooking plant-based meals, and being with her family and her dog Echo

Zoe graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in Nutrition and an M.Sc. in Food Science and Technology. During her graduate program, she developed and tested sourdough fermentations in order to make preservative-free, mold-resistant bread. After convocating in spring 2024, Zoe chose to continue on in academia as a member of the Prado lab, turning her attention from product development back to nutrition. She's now a proud member of the RESILIENCE team, focusing on improving health outcomes for endometrial cancer survivors. Zoe has a passion for food safety, sewing and design, and loves taking her dog to the beach.