HIP ATTACK-2

Flavia Kessler Borges

Scientist

Flavia Kessler Borges is a Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute and an Internist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Perioperative Care Division at McMaster University. She undertook her Masters in Health Sciences and her PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences in Brazil. She undertook a post doctorate and a clinical Perioperative Vascular fellowship under the direction of PHRI Senior Scientist PJ Devereaux at McMaster University. Her research is focused on perioperative cardiac biomarkers, and perioperative strategies to improve patient important outcomes in surgical patients, specially in hip fracture patients. She holds an Internal Career Research Award from Hamilton Health Sciences, a CIHR and NIH large grants as the Principal Investigators of the HIP ATTACK-2 trial.

PJ Devereaux

Deputy Director, Senior Scientist

Devereaux is a cardiologist, perioperative care physician, and clinical epidemiologist. He is the Director of the Division of Perioperative Care at McMaster University and a Deputy Director, Senior Scientist, and Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Surgical Research Group at PHRI. He is the Nominated Principal Applicant of the Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) Consortium, which is the Pan-Canadian Clinical Trials Consortium funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Additionally, he holds a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair in Perioperative Medicine.

Devereaux is a full Professor at McMaster University and the President of the Society of Perioperative Research and Care. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers and more than 85 book chapters, editorials, and commentaries, including 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine, 13 in the Lancet, and 11 in JAMA. He has an h-index of 115 and has given over 1000 lectures and research presentations in 41 countries. His research program focuses on major vascular complications during and after surgery, and he has led many large international randomized trials and prospective cohort studies on this topic.

Ana Claudia Tonelli

Research Fellow

Ana Claudia Tonelli is a Research Fellow at PHRI under the supervision of PHRI Scientist Flavia Kessler Borges. Ana will be involved in an international multi-centre randomized controlled clinical trial in perioperative care. Ana is an internal medicine physician at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil, and an Associate Professor at Unisinos University.

She has a Master’s Degree in internal medicine and a Ph.D. in cardiology and cardiovascular sciences, conferred by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. The primary research related to this academic formation is related to hypertension. In 2012, she started her ultrasound point of care career as a fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since then, she has been a standard bearer for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Brazil, teaching medical students, residents, and practicing internists.

Valerie Harvey

Associate Program Manager

Valerie Harvey is an Associate Program Manager with more than 12 years’ experience in clinical research at PHRI. She currently coordinates and manages interventional trials and observational studies in Digital Health in the areas of perioperative medicine and cardiac surgery. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours) in Biological Sciences from Brock University.