PHRI Population Health Research Institute
Tara McCready is an experienced professional in the field of healthcare and research, currently serving as Program Director at the Population Health Research Institute since October 2008. Prior experience includes leadership roles as Executive Director of the Maternal, Infant, Child and Youth Research Network and Operations Director for the Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta from December 2001 to August 2008. Earlier career experience includes serving as Project Manager at the Institute for Biomolecular Design, University of Alberta from 1999 to 2001. Tara McCready holds an MBA in Technology Commercialization and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, as well as a BSc in Biochemistry and Biology from the University of Guelph.
PHRI Population Health Research Institute
Global Health | Global Partnerships | Global Impact Research encompassing 1,500,000 participants in 102 countries on 6 continents. PHRI (Population Health Research Institute), a joint institute of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, is a world leader in clinical trials and large population health observational studies. PHRI is entering its third decade, still led by founder and Executive Director, Dr. Salim Yusuf. He and his team of now 300+ staff, senior scientists, scientists, investigators and research fellows, are asking important questions about cardiovascular disease, diabetes, PHRI’s research areas now also include perioperative and surgery; stroke and brain health; ACS and interventional cardiology; infectious diseases, GI, population genomics; thrombosis; heart failure; renal disease; obesity; childhood risk factors; and more. PHRI’s capacity to conduct several international studies concurrently, with tens of thousands of participants in each, is a capability very few organizations in the world can match. PHRI.ca/careers