Cindy Westerhout, PhD
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Associate Director (Research and Strategy), Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
- cynthiaw@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Dr. Cindy Westerhout is currently appointed as the Associate Director (Research & Strategy) at the Canadian VIGOUR Centre at the University of Alberta, Dr. Westerhout oversees the CVC Clinical Trial Statistics team, and provides consultation on the design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies. Her research interests include therapeutic treatment effects (e.g., composite endpoints) in randomized clinical trials. She also advises the directors, faculty and management team on the strategic directions of the CVC, and leads strategy implementation.
Dr. Westerhout completed a MSc in epidemiology at the University of Alberta in 2001 and a PhD in clinical cardiovascular epidemiology at Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) in 2007. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the American Heart Journal, and is a co-founder of the BALSAM (Biomedical AnaLytics Studio And Methods unit) at the University of Alberta.
Featured Publications
Justin A. Ezekowitz, Ciaran J. McMullan, Cynthia M. Westerhout, Ileana L. Piña, Jose Lopez-Sendon, Kevin J. Anstrom, Adrian F. Hernandez, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Christopher M. O’Connor, Burkert Pieske, Piotr Ponikowski, Lothar Roessig, Adriaan A. Voors, Joerg Koglin, Paul W. Armstrong, Javed Butler
Circulation: Heart Failure. 2023 September; 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.010599
FLORINE E.C. Julius, MARGJE R. VAN NOREL, ARIETJE J.L. ZANDIJK, SARAH RATHWELL, CYNTHIA WESTERHOUT, FINLAY A. MCALISTER, NARIMAN SEPEHRVAND, ADRIAAN A. VOORS, JUSTIN A. EZEKOWITZ
Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2021 September; 10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.05.005
Justin Ezekowitz, Robert J. Mentz, Cynthia M. Westerhout, Nancy K. Sweitzer, Michael M. Givertz, Ileana L. Piña, Christopher M. O’Connor, Stephen J. Greene, Ciaran McMullan, Lothar Roessig, Adrian F. Hernandez, Paul W. Armstrong
Circulation: Heart Failure. 2021 September; 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.120.008242
American Heart Journal. 2017 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2017.03.014
Circulation. 2017 January; 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.026229
International Journal of Cardiology. 2017 January; 10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.04.109
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. 2017 January; 10.1111/dom.12786
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2016 January; 10.1002/ccd.26335
European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care. 2016 January; 10.1177/2048872615581502
Implications of ischaemic area at risk and mode of reperfusion in ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Heart. 2016 January; 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308075
Heart. 2015 January; 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-306686
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.09.005
American Heart Journal. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2015.03.011
American Journal of Cardiology. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.06.011
EuroIntervention. 2015 January; 10.4244/EIJV11I1A22
Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 2015 January; 10.1177/0962280211436004
Journal of the American Heart Association. 2015 January; 10.1161/JAHA.115.002546
Heart. 2015 January; 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307815
American Journal of Medicine. 2015 January; 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.03.005
European Heart Journal. 2015 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu262
American Heart Journal. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.04.009
Experimental and Clinical Cardiology. 2014 January;
International Journal of Cardiology. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.11.066
American Heart Journal. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.07.027
Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.04.012
Journal of Electrocardiology. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2014.04.013
The American journal of cardiology. 2014 January;
Nutrition. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.nut.2014.04.006
Journal of Electrocardiology. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2013.10.005
International Journal of Cardiology. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.11.007
Heart. 2014 January; 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-306023
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2014 January; 10.1002/ccd.25590
American Heart Journal. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.12.001
International Journal of Cardiology. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.061
Circulation. 2013 January; 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.000627
American Heart Journal. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.05.018
American Heart Journal. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.01.009
American Journal of Medicine. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.01.038
European Heart Journal. 2013 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs438
International Journal of Biometeorology. 2013 January; 10.1007/s00484-012-0565-3
American Heart Journal. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.07.014
American Heart Journal. 2013 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.10.028
Circulation. 2012 January; 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.047530
American Journal of Cardiology. 2012 January; 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.07.020
Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 2012 January; 10.1007/s11239-012-0697-7
Circulation: Heart Failure. 2012 January; 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.968974
CMAJ. 2012 January; 10.1503/cmaj.111683
American Heart Journal. 2011 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.11.022
American Heart Journal. 2011 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2011.06.011
American Heart Journal. 2011 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.12.026
European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 2011 January; 10.1016/j.ejvs.2011.06.016
Circulation. 2011 January; 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.CIRCULATIONAHA.111.047530
American Heart Journal. 2011 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.10.033
European Heart Journal. 2010 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq129
American Journal of Cardiology. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.04.013
European Heart Journal. 2010 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq143
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.12.033
European Heart Journal. 2010 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp494
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.12.008
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.11.022
American Heart Journal. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.02.028
American Heart Journal. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.06.054
Journal of Electrocardiology. 2010 January; 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2010.04.001
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2009 January; 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.01.046
American Heart Journal. 2009 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.09.009
Circulation. 2009 January; 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.796383
Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2009 January;
European Journal of Heart Failure. 2008 January; 10.1016/j.ejheart.2008.01.014
American Heart Journal. 2008 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.016
Circulation. 2008 January; 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.767772
European Heart Journal. 2008 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn125
American Heart Journal. 2008 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.08.027
British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2008 January; 10.1093/bja/aen173
Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2008 January; 10.1016/j.cct.2008.06.003
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2007 January; 10.1002/ccd.21062
CMAJ. 2007 January; 10.1503/cmaj.060711
American Journal of Medicine. 2007 January; 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.05.056
Heart. 2007 January; 10.1136/hrt.2006.098657
European Heart Journal. 2007 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm223
American Heart Journal. 2007 January; 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.04.010
Archives of Internal Medicine. 2007 January; 10.1001/archinte.167.13.1353
European Heart Journal. 2006 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi700
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2006 January; 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.04.085
European Heart Journal. 2006 January; 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl356
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2005 January; 10.1136/jech.2004.024984
European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 2004 January; 10.1016/j.ejvs.2004.07.008
American Journal of Medicine. 2004 January; 10.1016/j.amjmed.2003.08.029
Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2004 January;
Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs. 2004 January;
Archives of Internal Medicine. 2003 January; 10.1001/archinte.163.20.2476
Expert Opinion on Drug Safety. 2003 January; 10.1517/14740338.2.1.49
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