Sals Star of the Week: Brett Hiebert (introduced by Ross Feldman)
It goes without saying that this has been a difficult year for everyone- especially in healthcare and especially for us in Cardiac Sciences. To keep going with business as usual in the setting of a once-in-a-lifetime (but seemingly never-ending) healthcare emergency and in the setting where the Cardiac Sciences Program has been dismantled (at least as an entity of WRHA ) requires much more than a business as usual effort. You all do it and have done it through both the pandemic and through the “transformation” of Cardiac Sciences, but this week I want to focus on one of us who has done the work to keep things going “as usual”—and will still be helping even after when he has departed from the scene on Jan 7. This week I want to recognize Brett Hiebert Lead Programmer/Statistical Analyst for CSMB as our Sals Star of the Week. After 10 years of dedicated service, Brett will be leaving us Jan 7 for a new role as Principal Biostatistician at IQUIVIA.
The most proximate contribution Brett is being cited for has been the extraordinary work he has done in managing his own transition as he leaves us- as both his position and roles move to Shared Health’s responsibility. His work over the past several weeks to create a how-to guide for his reporting functions will considerably minimize the gap that will occur in the reporting of key cardiac deliverables with his departure and the migration of his role. However, I would also like to acknowledge the key roles he served not only in his provincial reporting role, but as well in his support for the ACS Network and for the almost daily tasks he took on to try to turn anecdotes and impressions into data and evidence-based decision making. His work was critical in informing the business case for the expansion of cardiac services that was part of the Phase 2 Consolidation Plan. Further he was integral in shaping the evidence base for Heart Team initiatives- mostly notably the revascularization goodness of fit audit. He will also be missed for his role in working “off the side of his desk” to enrich the studies of countless trainees and students.
Brett is a highly deserving Sals Star of the Week for the efforts he has made in the course of his departure. However, he will be most remembered by an extraordinary pattern of service as the lynch pin for the decision support that in my view distinguished Cardiac Sciences from most of the other former WRHA Programs.
This Week’s Faculty Publications
Eugene B Wu , Emmanouil S Brilakis , Kambis Mashayekhi, Etsuo Tsuchikane, Khaldoon Alaswad, Mario Araya, Alexandre Avran , Lorenzo Azzalini, Avtandil M Babunashvili, Baktash Bayani, Michael Behnes, Ravinay Bhindi, Nicolas Boudou, Marouane Boukhris, Nenad Z Bozinovic, Leszek Bryniarski, Alexander Bufe, Christopher E Buller, M Nicholas Burke, Achim Buttner, Pedro Cardoso, Mauro Carlino, Ji-Yan Chen, Evald Hoej Christiansen, Antonio Colombo , Kevin Croce, Felix Damas de Los Santos , Tony de Martini, Joseph Dens, Carlo di Mario, Kefei Dou, Mohaned Egred, Basem Elbarouni, Ahmed M ElGuindy, Javier Escaned, Sergey Furkalo, Andrea Gagnor , Alfredo R Galassi, Roberto Garbo, Gabriele Gasparini, Junbo Ge , Lei Ge , Pravin Kumar Goel, Omer Goktekin, Nieves Gonzalo, Luca Grancini, Allison Hall, Franklin Leonardo Hanna Quesada, Colm Hanratty, Stefan Harb, Scott A Harding, Raja Hatem , Jose P S Henriques , David Hildick-Smith, Jonathan M Hill , Angela Hoye, Wissam Jaber, Farouc A Jaffer, Yangsoo Jang, Risto Jussila, Artis Kalnins , Arun Kalyanasundaram, David E Kandzari, Hsien-Li Kao, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Hussien Heshmat Kassem, Jaikirshan Khatri, Paul Knaapen, Ran Kornowski, Oleg Krestyaninov, A V Ganesh Kumar, Pablo Manuel Lamelas, Seung-Whan Lee , Thierry Lefevre, Raymond Leung, Yu Li, Yue Li , Soo-Teik Lim, Sidney Lo, William Lombardi, Anbukarasi Maran, Margaret McEntegart, Jeffrey Moses, Muhammad Munawar, Andres Navarro, Hung M Ngo, William Nicholson, Anja Oksnes, Goran K Olivecrona, Lucio Padilla, Mitul Patel, Ashish Pershad, Marin Postu, Jie Qian, Alexandre Quadros, Nidal Abi Rafeh , Truls Råmunddal, Vithala Surya Prakasa Rao, Nicolaus Reifart, Robert F Riley, Stephane Rinfret, Meruzhan Saghatelyan, George Sianos , Elliot Smith , Anthony Spaedy, James Spratt, Gregg Stone, Julian W Strange , Khalid O Tammam , Craig A Thompson, Aurel Toma, Jennifer A Tremmel, Ricardo Santiago Trinidad, Imre Ungi, Minh Vo, Vu Hoang Vu, Simon Walsh, Gerald Werner, Jaroslaw Wojcik, Jason Wollmuth, Bo Xu, Masahisa Yamane, Luiz F Ybarra Robert W Yeh, Qi Zhang Global Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing Algorithm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Aug 24;78(8):840-853. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.05.055.
Zahra Solati, Arun Surendran Andrea Edel, Marynia Roznik, David Allen, Amir Ravandi Increase in Plasma Oxidized Phosphatidylcholines (OxPCs) in Patients Presenting With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Dec 1;8:716944. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.716944. eCollection 2021.
Nebojša Oravec , Rakesh C Arora, Brian Bjorklund, April Gregora, Caroline Monnin, Mudra G Dave, Todd A Duhamel, David E Kent, Annette S H Schultz, Anna M Chudyk Patient and caregiver preferences and prioritized outcomes for cardiac surgery: A scoping review and consultation workshop J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Nov 27;S0022-5223(21)01675-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.11.052. Online ahead of print.
Wishing everybody in the CSMB community and happy and healthy holiday season!
Ross
