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U of A research is always garnering media attention. Here’s the lowdown on what’s been causing a buzz. U of A alumni who made headlines recently Igniting the Body’s Immune SURGERY IS RISKIER FOR OBESE PATIENTS intelligent and controlled. No one would Nearly one in five severely obese patients did not survive after surgery and many more System Against Cancer ever hire me, or date me, if they thought suffered post-surgery complications, a U of A study showed. The researchers looked at I was a loon. 111 severely obese patients who underwent urgent operations such as appendectomies, In the ongoing search team that includes could be used to fight I took multivitamins. I listened to gallbladder surgery and hernia repair between 2009 and 2011. They found that nearly for a cancer cure, a some of the brightest different types of cancer. Bach when my roommate was out. I half of the patients had to be admitted to intensive care following the surgery. One-third U of A team is looking minds in the fields “The concept has been eliminated meat. I eliminated dairy. I required multiple surgeries and 17 per cent died in hospital. Underlying health problems, to unleash the immune of oncology, virology, proven by antibodies added them back. such as high blood pressure, increase the patient’s risk of blood clots and other post- system so that it attacks immunology, in many cancer types, Margaret-Ann Armour, ’70 PhD, ’13 DSc And then it just went away. I had read Parents Can Detect surgery complications. As well, many severely obese people are malnourished, eating powerful cancer cells chemistry, dentistry including advanced (Honorary), spoke on CBC Radio in May an article in a fitness magazine, when food deficient in the vitamins and minerals critical for recovery from illness or surgery. and heals itself. and pharmaceutical melanoma, one of the about the worldwide Twitter reaction after I should have been writing an essay, by SCOTT ROLLANS, ’82 BA Autism Earlier Than Study authors Sandy Widder, Suzana Kupper, ’06 BSc, ’11 MD, and Rachel Khadaroo The researchers are sciences. The hardest cancers to treat,” a male astronomer was quoted as saying about the relationship between exercise recommend patients get nutritional support and move around soon after surgery to developing specialized project is backed says Barakat. Doctors scientists are just “boys with toys.” Within and our brains. So I turned the “obsess” improve circulation. They also recommend that hospitals be prepared to deal with an small molecules that by a $5.4-million The research team Parents can play an important role in days, more than 17,000 female scientists part of my self-diagnosis into training increasing number of obese Canadians. –the starphoenix will trigger the body’s partnership between is using computer the early detection of autism in their had posted photos of themselves with five or six days a week. Maybe that had T-cells to recognize the Alberta Cancer modelling and ’90 BCom children. their scientific “toys” under the hashtag something to do with the monster going Pat Kiernan, tumours as foreign Foundation and the experimental testing “Parents are the experts when #girlswithtoys. Armour, associate dean The Winter of My away. Maybe I just grew out of it, like bodies and attack and U of A’s Li Ka Shing to develop and test it comes to their kids, and their (diversity) in the Faculty of Science and acne and punk music. Lack of destroy them. T-cells Institute of Virology. the small molecules As morning news anchor for NY1 (and star of countless TV and movie cameos, observations are really valuable,” founding chair of WISEST (Women in I’ve met people, since then, who went Transportation are an important part The treatment would and hopes to find a says Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, co-author Scholarship, Engineering, Science and ‘Obsesso-Hyperventilitis’ through something similar — a quarter- including one in the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot), he is one of New York of the body’s immune be less invasive and pharmaceutical partner of a U of A study and a professor in Can Put Seniors, Technology) at the U of A, said she wasn’t IN MY MID-20S, I ENCOUNTERED SOMETHING WORSE THAN FREEZING life crisis. With my company, Story system, but malignant less expensive than to get the drug ready City’s most recognizable faces. We recently caught up to Kiernan just before the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry’s happy about the comment but was delighted THROUGH A JANUARY IN MONTREAL. NOW I REALIZE, I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE Engine, I was lucky enough to work with Disabled at Risk tumours deactivate the current methods for human trials by Department of Pediatrics. “In some with the online response, adding that she neuroscientists from across Alberta a Seniors and disabled people T-cells so they are of treating cancer, and 2020. –sandra pysklywyc, his daily afternoon nap. respects, parents are picking up on hoped the twitterstorm raised awareness few years ago. They are among the most living in rural areas with unable to see and research suggests it ’01 ba(rec/leisure) differences at six and nine months of about women in science. –cbc edmonton accomplished in their field, anywhere in few public transportation destroy bad cells. in my first year of graduate school age that we have a much harder time , I began to dread public transit. the world. What surprised and delighted Even as a quintessential New somebody put together that I am the Any U of A memories from your options are prone to feelings Research into seeing in the clinic.” Today’s Parent listed The Sky is Falling by I had grown up believing that Alberta was the coldest place in the and terrified me about these brilliant Yorker, you hang onto some only character that crosses over the time as a student? I remember of isolation, depression the small-molecule Professionals who act early on Kit Pearson, ’69 BA, as one of the 100 best world, but it turns out Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, in January, is men and women was their willingness Canadianisms. For example, Marvel Comics universes. I don’t one of the best business courses and a decreased quality treatment, called the parents’ concerns can improve Canadian children’s books of all time. First colder. Still I walked it, long before the era of Canada Goose jackets, to say, “We don’t really know.” I understand you eat Shreddies read the comics enough to have a full I took. For a semester we broke a of life, according to U of A Immune Checkpoint the outcome for children at risk of research. They’re also published in 1989 by Puffin Canada, the despite a reliable metro system humming underneath me. The human brain is surely the most cereal for breakfast every appreciation of how significant that is, class of students into labour and Program, is being led autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, at greater risk of harm book has won numerous awards, including amazing thing on Earth, and I envy morning. How do you maintain but there are those who assure me that management groups, and we had to by Khaled Barakat, ’12 the study says. as a result of driving the Canadian Library Association’s Book I preferred to be out in the icy air. No one did. My friends were people who are lucky enough to study your supply? For years, it’s been it’s a big deal. [Every other character] hammer out a collective bargaining PhD, research assistant Zwaigenbaum and Lori Sacrey, when they shouldn’t, says of the Year for Children. Pearson lives in When I was 24, something sinister understandably alarmed by my not-at- it. My informal brain research is on very simple. Whenever I go home [to appears in one universe or the other. agreement for the projectionists at professor in the a postdoctoral fellow in the researcher Bonnie Dobbs, Victoria and continues to add to her list of happened if I was stuck in an enclosed all-funny joke about touching strangers’ narrative and what it does to us, on our Canada], I bring an extra suitcase, and I did an episode of Nurse Jackie Cineplex Odeon Corp. To this day, Faculty of Pharmacy Department of Pediatrics, looked ’93 BA(Hons), ’99 PhD, a publications. –today’s parent space. In the metro or on a bus, my hair on public transit. And my “obsesso- capacity for empathy and compassion whenever anyone comes to visit us, last year, and this time they actually when we cover labour-management and Pharmaceutical at concerns reported by parents professor of family medicine thoughts had volume. Everyone, it hyperventilitis” spread into classrooms, and — when the time is right — action. they’re under orders to bring several stuck Pat Kiernan into the script. I issues [in newscasts], I think of the Sciences. He’s heading from about 300 families before their and director of the U of A’s Ian Herbers, ’92 BPE, is the new assistant seemed, was listening. They knew! I into libraries, into my apartment and It’s better today, much better, for a boxes of Shreddies. The economics had to show up at the hospital and things I learned in that course. a multidisciplinary children were three and compared Medically At-Risk Driver coach with the Edmonton Oilers. Herbers, a would think about myself thinking about into the pub where I medicated it away university student than when I was 24. have changed since the airlines started check myself into the emergency room And, about halfway through my them with clinical assessments Squirrels — Just Your Typical Teenagers Centre. The study used native of Jasper, Alta., was head coach of myself thinking about myself thinking, with cheap draught beer. It reached a But it isn’t better for everyone. charging $25 for an extra bag. Now I and complain that I was fatigued and degree, a couple of things happened. Statistics Canada data done when the children were three. Young squirrels are as moody and radical as the U of A’s Golden Bears hockey team for and my temperature would go up, and my peak, a crisis, when I began calling in Depression and dementia affect every tend to just order a crate online. It costs needed their help. That was actually One, I did some volunteer work at CJSR, from 2012 that found 10 They found parents of children some human teens, it seems. In a study of how three seasons. His teams captured three heart would thump and my lungs would sick — for everything. family. Our streets and hospitals and about the same as my extra bags — and like acting — I even had lines to the campus radio station, which led per cent of legally blind at high risk for ASD reported red squirrels’ personalities change as they Canada West conference championships and stop working and I would need to touch It never occurred to me to make an prisons are full of people suffering from I don’t have to explain it at customs. memorize. It was my most challenging to an opportunity to do Saturday and seniors had driven in the two Canadian Interuniversity Sport national more early concerns than other age, University of Alberta biologist Amanda previous month, as had 27 something — that woman’s perfectly black appointment to speak with a doctor. mental illnesses. role to date. [Laughs] Sunday newscasts for what was at the parents — concerns that can be Kelley, ’14 MSc, found young squirrels show per cent of those with severe championship trophies. –sportsnet hair — or get out of the metro right now I wasn’t really sick. It was something For those of us who aren’t working I’m a crispy Shreddies guy, but I time 96 K-Lite. Then I got involved with predictive of ASD. more extreme personalities, as measured by cognitive impairments. lest I faint or die or worse. else, a vile monster inside me. I don’t in laboratories, the best we can do understand you leave yours until I’m sure you get recognized all the the campus newspaper, The Gateway, “They reported more sensory and their activity and aggression. As they age, The U of A study of 16,369 Pierrette Requier, ’71 BEd, is Edmonton’s There was actually something worse remember seeing any posters or is to empathize, to sympathize and, they’re soggy. What’s the magic time in the United States. Does which is where I really got to know motor concerns starting at the age of they become conformists, with the intense respondents 65 and over sixth poet laureate. The Franco-Albertan than dying, or so it seemed on the metro: awareness campaigns on campus or when someone asks, to help. Obsesso- there? I think one time when I was six it ever happen in Canada? My my wife [Dawn Kiernan, ’91 BA]. And six months,” says Sacrey. “Then they squirrels settling down and the timid squirrels also found more than 70 per educator and spoken-word artist was also an imprecise, buzzing horror that was at anywhere else. This was long before hyperventilitis? Of course, my friend. years old I accidentally soaked them father-in-law is a retired professor [Mel those two things led me quite firmly increasingly reported more language becoming more confident. Kelley notes a cent who had disabilities writer-in-residence at MacEwan University, a once in me and beyond me. hashtags encouraging us to talk about Tell me more. and decided they tasted better that way. Lerohl, ’60 BSc(Ag)], and we were onto the journalism path. and social concerns at about 12 to 15 squirrel’s personality may affect mating, the said their transportation mentor for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and I tried to make a joke of it to my mental illness. Whatever was happening having dinner at the Faculty Club a months of age.” success of offspring, where they end up living needs were not being met. helped organize events at the Edmonton closest friends, hoping one of them to me, I was not prepared to think of it as Todd Babiak, ’95 BA, co-founded Your face seems to pop up few years ago on one of our Edmonton In other words, you can draw a The earlier patients get support, and their survival. –cbc –edmonton journal Poetry Festival. –edmonton journal would say, “Oh yes, that feeling on a mental illness let alone talk. the company Story Engine and has whenever a movie or TV show visits. I was parking on campus, and the straight line from CJSR to your the better the prognosis, says Sacrey. the metro. Of course, Todd. It’s called I wanted my friends and peers and published several books, including Come needs a newscaster character. attendant actually recognized me from news desk at NY1. You really ILLUSTRATION BY DUSHAN MILIC; PHOTO BY SELENA PHILLIPS-BOYLE BY MILIC; DUSHAN ILLUSTRATION BY PHOTO THINKSTOCK ALAMY –ross neitz obsesso-hyperventilitis. We all have it.” professors and girlfriends to see me as Barbarians, a national bestseller. JOHN ULAN; BY PHOTO ALAMY (SPIDER-MAN) That must be fun. Last year, my old Global/ITV days. can — you’re right!

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