Mark Haykowsky, Ph.D., FACC, FAHA, FACSM

Professor, Faculty of Nursing

Research Chair in Aging and Quality of Life, Faculty of Nursing

Pronouns: "he, him, his"

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Professor, Faculty of Nursing

Email: mhaykows@ualberta.ca

Research Chair in Aging and Quality of Life, Faculty of Nursing

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Address: 3-045 Dianne and Irving Kipnes Health Research Academy
11405 87 Ave NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 1C9

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Aging; Heart Failure; CardiooOncology; Oxygen Transport & Utilization; Sports Cardiology

About

PUBMED LINK: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/?term=Haykowsky+OR+Haykowski+OR+haykowksy+OR+Ph D MJH

Research

Professor & Endowed Research Chair in Aging, Faculty of Nursing, College of Health Sciences.
Director, Integrated Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation (iCARE) Laboratory.
My internationally recognized research program examines the biological mechanisms underpinning the decline in cardiovascular health and fitness across the healthy aging and heart failure continuum, and the role of lifestyle interventions to improve cardiac, peripheral vascular, and skeletal muscle function, physical function and quality of life. A second research area is in the cardiooncology field with specific focus on the role of exercise training to prevent cardiovascular and skeletal muscle deconditioning across the breast cancer survivorship continuum. A final research focus is in sport cardiology and cardiac mechanics in athletes. Director,
Published >350 peer-reviewed articles, invited editorials, letters or book chapters (Google Scholar: h-index: 86; i10-index: 261; Citations: 26,463).
Google Scholar: h-index: 87; i10-index: 257; Citations: 26,101.
ScholarGPS - Overall Ranking: Top 0.08% out of 29,174,400 researchers worldwide.
ScholarGPS - Allied Health Ranking: Top 0.04% out of 660,592 researchers worldwide.
ScholarGPS – Nursing Ranking: Top 0.01% out of 268,286 researchers worldwide.
Expertscape World’s Top Experts: 2nd out of 75,391 published authors worldwide of "Oxygen Consumption" World Experts
Invited or keynote speaker for over 230 Local, National, or International Scientific Meetings.
PI/Co-I for 51 grants including CIHR, NIH, AHA (>$40 million awarded).
Expert Working Group Member for several National Institutes of Health (NHLBI, NIA) initiatives including the most recent meeting focusing on potential extra-cardiac contributors to HFpEF in older adults (https://www-sciencedirect-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/science/article/pii/S0735109721056916?via%3Dihub)
Supervised / Supervisory Committee Member for >110 trainees.
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC).
Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA).
Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM).

Teaching

Courses Taught: NURS 311 - EVIDENCE INFORMED NURSING PRACTICE

Announcements

RESEARCH GRANTS

CURRENT GRANTS

Influence of Aging and Physical Activity on Thoracic Aortic Wall Stress, Aortic Remodeling and Dissection. University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 2025 Transformational Medical Research Grant-River Philip Foundation (PI, 243,800, 2025-2028).
Understanding the Impact of Exercise on Cardiovascular Function in Patients with Aortic Disease. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (PI, $379,707 2025-2029).
Novel Imaging Approaches for Measuring Oxygen Utilization Across the Oxygen Cascade. American Heart Association (Co-PI, $10,000 US, 2025-2026)
Phenotyping cardiotoxicity and heart failure risk in breast cancer survivors: Moving beyond resting ejection fraction. (PI, $128,600: CIHR - $64,000)
Phenotyping cardiotoxicity and heart failure risk in breast cancer survivors: Moving beyond resting ejection fraction Cancer Research Society (PI, $64,600, 2024-2026).
Imaging of Long-Term Tissue Damage from COVID-19 and Cardiometabolic Disease. CIHR Project Grant (Co-Investigator, $887,400; 2024-2029).
Neuromuscular dysfunction in women receiving taxane-based chemotherapy. 2024 Cross Cancer Institute Investigator Initiated Trial Grant Funding Competition (CO-I, 132,792; 2024-2026).
Dapagliflozin for long COVID syndrome. CIHR Bridge Grant (CO-I:$100,000; 2024-2025).
Dapagliflozin for long COVID syndrome. Long COVID Web (CO-I: $100,000; 2024-2025).
Living with aortic disease. SSHRC Institutioanl GHrants FoN, Ualberta (CO-I, $3000)
Cardiac, cerebral and skeletal muscle hemodynamics and oxygenation in Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Healthy Controls. Ward Estate Chronic Fatigue Research Competition, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta (Co-PI: 150,000; 2024-2026).
A novel remote intervention to decelerate the age-related decline and disease development among older breast cancer survivors. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Biological and Clinical Aspects of Aging (Co-Investigator, $895,050; 2023-2028).
Utilizing Exercise Cardiovascular and Skeletal Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Evaluate Factors Associated with Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients. Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program and Big Gifts for Little Lives (Co-Investigator: $30,000; 2023-2025).
Management of Impaired Functional Capacity in Older Breast Cancer Survivors. CIHR Project Grant - Biological and Clinical Aspects of Aging (PI: $577,576; 2022-2027).
Quantitative Imaging of the Evolution of the Whole-Body Fat Profile in Breast Cancer Survivors. CIHR Project Grant (Co-PI, $755,440; 2021-2026).
APOLLO: Personalized rehAbilitation PrOgram in aLLOgeneic bone marrow transplantation Team. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada’s Blood Cancer/ The Canadian Cancer Society Quality of Life Grant Competition (Co-investigator, $150,000, 2023-2025)

Courses

NURS 311 - Evidence Informed Nursing Practice

The course provides a hands on approach to evidence-informed nursing practice. This includes formulating clinical questions, systematic searching of electronic databases, reading, interpreting and critically appraising health research. Emphasis is on developing thinking and information literacy skills necessary to be an astute research consumer, and using evidence to inform clinical decision making. Note: Available only to nursing students in the Collaborative/Honors Program, After Degree/After Degree Honors Program or RPN-BScN Program. Prerequisite for Collaborative/Honors Program students: NURS 211 (or NURS 341). Credit may be obtained for only one of NURS 311 or 301.

Winter Term 2026

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Featured Publications

Progression of Ascending Aortic Dimensions in Masters Endurance Athletes

Nathaniel Moulson, Noah D. Boroditsky, Julien Wiese, Reid A. Mitchell, Mark J. Haykowsky, Stephen J. Foulkes, James Roberts, Saul Isserow, Barbara N. Morrison, James McKinney

JACC: Advances. 2025 October; 10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.102163

Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation: Mechanisms to Restore Function and Clinical Impact

Abdulla A. Damluji, Corey R. Tomczak, Stephanie Hiser, Deirdre E. O’Neill, Parag Goyal, Quinn R. Pack, Stephen J. Foulkes, Todd M. Brown, Mark J. Haykowsky, Dale M. Needham, Daniel E. Forman

Circulation Research. 2025 July; 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.125.325705

Validation of magnetic resonance imaging-derived venous oxygen saturation and oxygen consumption measurements during exercise

Rachel J. Skow, Stephen J. Foulkes, Hendrik Mugele, Dean R. Perkins, Justin S. Lawley, Corey R. Tomczak, Michael D. Nelson, Andre La Gerche, Mark J. Haykowsky, Richard B. Thompson

American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2025 June; 10.1152/ajpheart.00134.2025

Musclin and HFpEF: Unlocking Skeletal Muscle Potential to Improve Exercise Tolerance

Stephen J. Foulkes, Michael D. Nelson, Mark J. Haykowsky

Circulation: Heart Failure. 2025 June; 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.125.013130

Insights From a 20-Year Follow-Up of the First Heart Transplant Recipient to Complete an Ironman Triathlon

Stephen J. Foulkes, Rachel J. Skow, Andre La Gerche, Wayne J. Tymchak, Mark J. Haykowsky

Circulation: Heart Failure. 2025 March; 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012027

Aorta Wall Stress during Exercise in Patients with an Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: Insights from a Case Series

Mark J. Haykowsky, Rachel J. Skow, Stephen J. Foulkes, Justin Grenier, John A. Elefteriades, Richard B. Thompson, M. Sean McMurtry

AORTA. 2024 October; 10.1055/a-2558-4266

Lifelong physiology of a former marathon world-record holder: the pros and cons of extreme cardiac remodeling

Stephen J. Foulkes, Mark J. Haykowsky, Peter M. Kistler, Glenn K. McConell, Scott Trappe, Mark Hargreaves, David L. Costill, Andre La Gerche

Journal of Applied Physiology. 2024 September; 10.1152/japplphysiol.00070.2024

Impact of whole-body and skeletal muscle composition on peak oxygen uptake in heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Veronika Schmid, Stephen J Foulkes, Devyn Walesiak, Jing Wang, Corey R Tomczak, Wesley J Tucker, Siddhartha S Angadi, Martin Halle, Mark J Haykowsky

European Heart Journal Open. 2024 August; 10.1093/ehjopen/oeae082

Physiological determinants of decreased peak leg oxygen uptake in chronic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Stephen J. Foulkes, Peter D. Wagner, Jing Wang, Andre La Gerche, Mark J. Haykowsky

Journal of Applied Physiology. 2024 June; 10.1152/japplphysiol.00918.2023

Reply

Edith Pituskin, Amy A. Kirkham, Richard B. Thompson, Mark J. Haykowsky, D. Ian Paterson

JACC: Advances. 2024 March; 10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.100848

Determinants of Impaired Peak Oxygen Uptake in Breast Cancer Survivors: JACC: CardioOncology Primer

Stephen J. Foulkes, Mark J. Haykowsky, Todd Li, Jing Wang, Megan Kennedy, Amy A. Kirkham, Richard B. Thompson, D. Ian Paterson, Andre La Gerche, Edith Pituskin

JACC: CardioOncology. 2024 February; 10.1016/j.jaccao.2023.11.005