Ross Tsuyuki

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
rtsuyuki@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-8526
Address
362J1 Heritage Medical Research Centre
11207 - 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2S2

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Hypertension chronic disease management public health pharmacy practice research epidemiology cardiovascular risk reduction dyslipidemia diabetes


About

Personal Statement:

I have two main research interests. First, as a hearth services researcher, I am interested in the public health role of  community pharmacists to identify and manage acute and chronic conditions. Our group has conducted some of the first trials of pharmacist prescribing and care in a variety of conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular risk reduction. My second interest is providing methodological, data management and biostatistical support for researchers, which we do through EPICORE Centre. 

Dr. Ross Tsuyuki received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiology clinical trials and a Master’s in Health Research Methods at McMaster University. 

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Tsuyuki is chair of the Department of Pharmacology and director of the EPICORE Centre (a health research coordinating centre). He is an honorary professor at the University of Waterloo and the University of Otago in New Zealand. Dr. Tsuyuki is the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Pharmacists Journal. He received the Canadian Pharmacists Association’s Canadian Pharmacist of the Year award in 2005. He is a fellow of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the American College of Cardiology and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. 



Clinical Interests

Dr. Tsuyuki sees patients at the Heart Function Clinic at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, where he has worked for 22 years.


Research

Dr. Tsuyuki is a health services researcher with a particular focus on chronic disease management in the community. Patients with chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes see their community pharmacist more frequently than any other health professional. With changing scopes of practice for pharmacists, there is a real potential for identification and better management of patients with chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and high cardiovascular risk – a radical change in primary care. Indeed, our group has conducted some of the first trials of pharmacist prescribing and care in hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular risk, and, recently, in urinary tract infections all of which have shown significant improvements compared to usual care. Implementation of such innovations in primary care are highly supported by patients and are economically dominant (i.e., are more effective than usual care and save money to the health care system). 

Dr. Tsuyuki is equally interested in improving the quantity and quality of health research. Through EPICORE Centre (www.epicore.ualberta.ca), he leads a group of dedicated professionals who provide health research services, including consultation on research design, methodology, data management, biostatistics and assistance with research grant preparation. For over 20 years, our group has supported over 400 individual investigators complete over 700 projects. We are also the Consultation and Research Services platform of the Alberta SPOR (Strategy for Patient Oriented Research) SUPPORT Unit, jointly funded by CIHR and Alberta Innovates.

Dr. Tsuyuki has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and received the Department of Medicine’s Clinical Investigation Publication Award in 2016. His work has garnered more than $54 million in funding, including support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy Innovation Fund, Sanofi-Aventis Canada Inc., Alberta Innovates, and the University Hospital Foundation- ervier Alberta Innovation in Health Fund.


Teaching

Dr. Tsuyuki is actively engaged in training the next generation of health researchers and has mentored more than 50 graduate students and postgraduate trainees. He has received numerous awards for teaching and mentorship.

Featured Publications

Gastens V., Kiszio B., Del Giovane C., Tsuyuki R., Paradis G., Chiolero A., Santschi V.

BMJ Open. 2022 May; 12 (5):e059399 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059399


Campbell N.R.C., Whelton P.K., Orias M., Wainford R.D., Cappuccio F.P., Ide N., Neal B., Cohn J., Cobb L.K., Webster J., Trieu K., He F.J., McLean R.M., Blanco-Metzler A., Woodward M., Khan N., Kokubo Y., Nederveen L., Arcand J.A., MacGregor G.A., Owolabi M.O., Lisheng L., Parati G., Lackland D.T., Charchar F.J., Williams B., Tomaszewski M., Romero C.A., Champagne B., L’Abbe M.R., Weber M.A., Schlaich M.P., Fogo A., Feigin V.L., Akinyemi R., Inserra F., Menon B., Simas M., Neves M.F., Hristova K., Pullen C., Pandeya S., Ge J., Jalil J.E., Wang J.G., Wideimsky J., Kreutz R., Wenzel U., Stowasser M., Arango M., Protogerou A., Gkaliagkousi E., Fuchs F.D., Patil M., Chan A.W.K., Nemcsik J., Tsuyuki R.T., Narasingan S.N., Sarrafzadegan N., Ramos M.E., Yeo N., Rakugi H., Ramirez A.J., Álvarez G., Berbari A., Kim C.i., Ihm S.H., Chia Y.C., Unurjargal T., Park H.K., Wahab K., McGuire H., Dashdorj N.J., Ishaq M., Ona D.I.D., Mercado-Asis L.B., Prejbisz A., Leenaerts M., Simão C., Pinto F., Almustafa B.A., Spaak J., Farsky S., Lovic D., Zhang X.H.

JOURNAL OF HUMAN HYPERTENSION. 2022 May; 10.1038/s41371-022-00690-0


Watson K.E., Dhaliwal K., McMurtry E., Donald T., Lamont N., Benterud E., Kung J.Y., Robertshaw S., Verdin N., Drall K.M., Donald M., Campbell D.J.T., McBrien K., Tsuyuki R.T., Pannu N., James M.T.

Kidney Medicine. 2022 May; 4 (9) 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100491


Goswami S., Rosenthal M., Nair S., Inguva S., Al Hamarneh Y.N., Tsuyuki R.T.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2022 May; 62 (5):1631-1637.e3 10.1016/j.japh.2022.05.005


Gysel S.C., Watson K.E., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2022 April; 155 (3):136-138 10.1177/17151635221091191


Santarossa T.M., So R., Smyth D.P., Gustavsen D.S., Tsuyuki D.R.T.

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 2022 January; 59 10.1016/j.msard.2022.103638


Gysel S., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 December; 155 (1):4-5 10.1177/17151635211063188


Servito M., Khani-Hanjani A., Smith K.M., Tsuyuki R.T., Mullen J.C.

ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY. 2021 December; 114 (5):1555-1561 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.11.012


So R., Al Hamarneh Y.N., Oleksyn C., Purschke M., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 November; 154 (6):376-380 10.1177/17151635211016498


Smyth P., Watson K.E., Tsuyuki R.T.

Trials. 2021 November; 22 (1) 10.1186/s13063-021-05726-3


Tsuyuki R.T., Al Hamarneh Y.N., Chan J.C.H., Dobie J., Santarossa T.M., So R., Wu Q., Watson K.E.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 October; 154 (6):353-354 10.1177/17151635211050029


Santarossa T.M., Watson K.E., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 September; 154 (5):324-330 10.1177/17151635211029985


Necyk C., Johnson J.A., Tsuyuki R.T., Eurich D.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 September; 154 (5):331-341 10.1177/17151635211020340


Beazely M.A., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 September; 154 (5):289-290 10.1177/17151635211035127


Beahm N.P., Smyth D.J., Tsuyuki R.T.

JAMMI. 2021 August; 6 (3):205-212 10.3138/JAMMI-2020-0047


Watson K.E., Tsuyuki R.T., Beahm N.P., Sedore R., Bell A.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 July; 154 (4):271-277 10.1177/17151635211016493


Schumacher P.M., Becker N., Tsuyuki R.T., Griese-Mammen N., Koshman S.L., McDonald M.A., Bouvy M., Rutten F.H., Laufs U., Böhm M., Schulz M.

ESC Heart Failure. 2021 July; 8 (5):3566-3576 10.1002/ehf2.13508


Brown V., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 July; 154 (4):228-231 10.1177/17151635211019997


Leung A.A., Bell A., Tsuyuki R.T., Campbell N.R.C.

CMAJ. 2021 June; 193 (23):E854-E855 10.1503/cmaj.210140


Idowu O, Makhinova T, Quintanilha M, Yuksel N, Schindel TJ, Tsuyuki RT

Pharmacy. 2021 June; 9 (3):119 https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9030119


Applying the stages of implementation completion (SIC) framework retrospectively to a community pharmacy clinical intervention implementation project for scaling up future success

Virtual ISPOR 2021, May 17-21, 2021. 2021 May;


Grindrod K., Waite N., Constantinescu C., Watson K.E., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 May; 154 (3):133-135 10.1177/17151635211005763


Al Hamarneh Y.N., Okada H., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 May; 154 (3):160-165 10.1177/17151635211004964


Watson K.E., Al Hamarneh Y.N., Rabi D., Daskalopoulou S.S., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 May; 154 (3):139 10.1177/17151635211005764


Campbell N.R.C., Ordunez P., Giraldo G., Rodriguez Morales Y.A., Lombardi C., Khan T., Padwal R., Tsuyuki R.T., Varghese C.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2021 May; 37 (5):744-755 10.1016/j.cjca.2020.12.004


Le Melledo J.M., Baker G., Gyenes G., Tsuyuki R., Jurasz P.

Psychopharmacology. 2021 April; 238 (4):1223-1224 10.1007/s00213-021-05799-7


The Hypertension Canada Professional Program (HC-PCP): Assessment of the Competencies For a Novel Implementation Strategy for Hypertension Guidelines

Virtual Joint Meeting ESH-ISH 2021, April 11-14, 2021. 2021 April;


Al Hamarneh Y.N., Marra C., Gniadecki R., Keeling S., Morgan A., Tsuyuki R.

BMJ Open. 2021 March; 11 (3) 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043612


Gelfer M., Bell A., Petrella R., Campbell N.R.C., Cloutier L., Lindsay P., Leung A.A., Morris D., McLean D., Tsuyuki R.T., Dattani S., Kaczorowski J.

CANADIAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 2021 March; 67 (3):157 10.46747/cfp.6703157


Watson K.E., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 March; 154 (2):68-69 10.1177/1715163521992037


Watson K.E., Al Hamarneh Y.N., Rabi D., Daskalopoulou S.S., Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 January; 154 (1):19-25 10.1177/1715163520975809


So R., Al Hamarneh Y., Oleksyn C., Purschke M., Tsuyuki R.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 January; 10.1177/17151635211016498


Tsuyuki R.T.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 January; 154 (1):6 10.1177/1715163520977274


Tsuyuki R.T., Pimlott N.

Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2021 January; 154 (1):7-8 10.1177/1715163520970443


Schumacher P.M., Becker N., Tsuyuki R.T., Griese-Mammen N., Koshman S.L., McDonald M.A., Bouvy M., Rutten F.H., Laufs U., Böhm M., Schulz M.

ESC Heart Failure. 2021 January; 10.1002/ehf2.13508


Truong MB. Ngo E, Ariansen H, Tsuyuki RT, Nordeng H

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2020 December; 20 10.1186/s12884-020-03472-z


Campbell D.J.T., Saunders-Smith T., Manns B.J., Tonelli M., Ivers N., Hemmelgarn B.R., Tsuyuki R.T., Pannu R., King-Shier K.

Health Expectations. 2020 December; 23 (6):1485-1501 10.1111/hex.13133