Dr. Sayeh Zielke is an author, medical director and cardiologist based in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. She is the Medical Director of Chinook Cardiology, which she established in 2013, and of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, part of the Alberta Healthy Living Program of Alberta Health Services. Dr. Zielke recently served as vice-chair and board member of Alberta Health Services Board from 2020-2022, during which she further served as chair of the Quality and Safety Committee and vice-chair of the Human Resources Committee. Dr. Zielke completed her Master of International Business Administration in 2001 at the University of Ottawa. She went on to receive her medical doctorate, also from the University of Ottawa and was class valedictorian. Dr. Zielke completed her internal medicine and cardiology residencies at the University of Calgary. She further completed training in both cardiac CT and echocardiography at the Royal Brompton Hospital and John Radcliffe Hospital - University of Oxford Hospitals in the U.K. Dr. Zielke is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors having received her ICD.D. designation in 2022. She currently holds faculty appointments as Clinical Lecturer at the University of Calgary, Department of Cardiac Sciences, Cummings School of Medicine, and at the University of Lethbridge, Department of Neuroscience as Adjunct Associate Professor.

Dr. Adrian Chikwanha was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He came to Canada in 2007 and settled in Edmonton. Dr. Chikwanha did his Internal medicine and Cardiology in Calgary between 2015 to 2021. He then went to Edmonton and completed his echo training for one year. Dr. Chikwanha has always enjoyed working in Lethbridge in the past few years during his electives and locums and wants to continue to serve the city of Lethbridge and Southern Alberta the best way he can. Dr. Chikwanha came with his wife, daughter, and son. He spends most of his free time cycling.

Dr. Steven Greenway is a Pediatric Cardiologist at the Alberta Children's Hospital and the Providence Pediatric Cardiology Clinic in Calgary. After completing medical school at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Greenway completed residencies and fellowships at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Harvard Medical School. He specializes in heart function, cardiomyopathy, cardiac genetics and heart transplantation. Dr Greenway's research, which focuses on genomics, has been published in multiple journals. He is the lead of the Greenway Lab for Translational Research where he studies the application of next-generation sequencing to important clinical problems in pediatric cardiology. Outside of clinical and research activities, Dr. Greenway is involved in teaching at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine as a Clinical Associate Professor.

Dr. Harder grew up in Edmonton and attended the University of Alberta in Sciences, and then Medical School. She graduated in 1974 and moved to Calgary for a residency in Pediatrics. After four years at Foothills Medical Center, she was accepted into a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In 1980, she moved back to Calgary and began a practice in Pediatric Cardiology. As the Alberta Children’s Hospital began to develop subspecialty pediatrics, she was invited to move her practice into the hospital to lead the development of cardiology. This included the introduction of echocardiography, the construction of an angiography suite and a steady increase in the number of cardiologists with specialized expertise. Dr. Harder continued her cardiology practice at ACH for four decades before retiring in 2021; she continues to interpret pediatric echocardiograms remotely and locally for Chinook Cardiology.

Dr. Nanette Alvarez was born in Trail, BC and attended medical school in Kingston, Ontario. She completed an internship in New Zealand followed by a residency in Internal Medicine in Montreal, Quebec and subsequently Toronto, Ontario. She obtained her Cardiology sub-specialty training in Toronto. Dr. Alvarez then spent two years in Calgary pursuing a number of different research interests. She joined the University of Calgary and accepted a staff position at the Calgary General Hospital in 1989. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiac Sciences. In addition to her practice in general cardiology, Dr. Alvarez's sub-specialty interests include heart disease in women, adult congenital heart disease, arteriopathy and echocardiography.

Dr. Sean Spence is an internist and intensivist. He was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta before completing his BSc in Life Sciences at Queen's University. Dr. Spence completed medical school in Calgary, followed by Internal Medicine residency in Toronto and fellowship training in Critical Care upon returning to Calgary. When not seeing patients in ICU or in clinic at Chinook Cardiology, Dr. Spence enjoys traveling and staying active with his family.

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